The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-01-02
Is CLEVELAND
DOUBLE FACED?
New You See Him and Nov Yor
Don't-Ani You Can, Always
Place Him.
He TRIMS TO THE BREEZE
~. VIII Place nlm,s n on Tho silver sid.
I" win-Then He Gsss To III. GoiabsE.
1s Win Again-uo Say. 4~ Ihipg-And
His Supporters And Follower. s.s a.
other.

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other.
Fayetteville Observer Dem u
The Atlanta journal the other day
contained the following:
A correspondent asks that the Journal
reprint President Cleyeland's famous letter
against the free and unlimited coinage OF
silver. written just before his last nom ma
ton for tie presidency. The letter wss in
answer TO an invitation from the New York
Reform Club, and Was as follows
Dear Sir:-l have this afternoon received
your note inviting ME To attend TO morrow
evening the meeting called for the purtose
OF yoicing the opposition OF our city TO the
the free coinage Of silver in the United
States"
shall not be able 10 attend and address
the meeting as you request, but ! am glad
that the business interest of New York are
as las: TO be heard on this subject, IL sure
ly cannot be necessary for me TO make a
formal expression of my agreement with
those who believe that the greatei Peril
would be invited by the adoption of the
scheme. embraced in The measure now
pending in Congress, for the unlimited
coinage Of silver stour min,s.
III We have developed an unexpected ca
pacity for the assimilation OF Largely in
creased volume of this currency, and even
If We have demonstrated the usefulness of
such an increase, these con iitions fall far
short OF insuring us against disaster IL. in
the present situation, We enter upon the
dangerous and reckless experiment of free.
unlimited and independent silver coinage.
Very truly yours.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
The fact tina. the Presidents mes
sage has cut the last bit Of ground
from under the feet of his spologists
in the South, probably supplies the
motive for exhuming this old letter.
The purpose is to make it appear
that the President has not changed.
To bring up this now is like thresh-
ing out old straw. 1t is a dead issue.
Among the many blows it received,
none were SO admirable and effective
as these which gave it the coup de
grace:
Said Chairman Voorhees,, tie rec
ognized agent of the President in
charge of the unconditional repeal
bill, on the 23rd of August, 1898:
THE PRESIDENTS AGENT PLEDGES HIN
TO SILVER.
ga bill for the free coinage of sil.
yer had passed the Senate by the
great majority of l6, and then the
measure. since known by the name
Of the Senator from Ohio, was
brought forward and rendered to
the representatives of the States
having silver bullion to sell, as q
compromise in lieu of the great vic.
tory they had just obtained. In an
evil hour, the worst and darkest
that ever befell the cause of bimet.
tallism, or the honor and existence
of silver money, this pernicious
compromise was accepted and fast
eIed on the country. The Senator
from Ohio, it is true, now claims
credit for his repeated assertion OF
late that there has never been an
hour since the compromise was eff
fected that he has not stood ready
to violate it by voting for lis repeal.
Sir, would at once Grad .cate this
confessed evil, this universally con.
demned enactment, from the body o!
laws, with no other condition thar
my right and free agency to support
and secure in connection with its re
peal-or afterwards by an independ
ent measure, as the success Of it.
immediate repeal, the primary dut,
of the hour may at the time dictat,
"a sound financial system, embrac
ing the coinage Of silver on an equal
ity with gold. In making this state
ment only repeat the declaration o
the Democratic party in pationa
convention at Chicago in June, 1892
and n which the American peopl,
restored to the Presidency one o
the strongest, ablest, pures., apc
most patriotic characters ever know
in A American history. That declara
ton, containing as it does the con
census of Democratic opinion from
every State and territory in tn
Union, may be heard at this tim
again with profit aud advantage,
BE quotes here the money plan
Of the Chicago platform.
1t will here be seen that the unite
Democracy of the country, fourtee
months ago, in formal conventio
assembled, denounced the Snerma
act which had degraded silver to
commodity, demanded its repeal
and declared in tho strongest lar
guage in favor of the coinage O
both the precious metals on fair an
honest terms of absolute equality
But the record made on this subjec
in the momentous year of 1892 doe
not stop at this point. Grover C!eve
land, the great leader Of his part
then and the great Chief Magistrat
of the whole people new, in accep,
ing his nomination, addressed th
public in well-remembered terms
which have been in nowise changed
modified, or contradicted by the sins
ularly able message delivered a fe'
days ago to this body. His languag
was as follows
| 1.-The people are entitled to soun
and honest money, abundantly suft
cient in volume to supply their bu
mess needs. But whatever may b
the form of the peoples currenc,
national or State, whether gold, 81
yer, or paper, it should be SO regl
lated and guarded by governments
action or by wise and careful law
that no one can be deluded as to tt
certainty and stability of its valu
Every dollar put into the hands /,
the people should be Of the same il
: trinsic value or purchasing powe
With this condition absolutely qua
arteed, both gold and silver can |
safely utilized upon equal terms in Il
adjustment of our currency"
Who dares in the face of the Gle,
Z and explicit words which l have ju
: read to charge that their author is
monometalist in disguise, . believ
in the use of gold and gold alon
but wearing, for the sake of ,
election to the Presidency, a bimet.
lie maski
o Sir who has the hardihood to q
Q sert or to insinuate that Grow