New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-08
1.-THE CHAMPION or SOUND MONEY"


Down in Washington It must be dreadfully
dull. or else the hand of the newsgatherer has
lost its cunning Discrimination. certainly,
cannot be a>cribcd to the correspondent of one
of our esteemed contemporaries, who informs
his paper that Mr.. Cleveland has discovered at
last that offensive partisanship" is shown by
some of his most distinguished appointees and
that ''pcrnicous activity" pcrvades the depart
ments from the very mandarns with the coral
buttons down TO the lowest dervish of the
broom brigade. This correspondent asks us to
believe. as matter Of fact. that the antics of
such men as Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury Scott Wke. Auditor f. Z. Baldwin and
Deputy Commissioner of Pensions Bell. who
openly pose as supporters of Bryan and Sewall,
have aroused the wrath Of Mr.. Cleveland and
that they have been marked for dismissal He
doesn't shrink. either from taxing our creduty
by further asserting that. had HOke Smith not
resigned. he would have had his Yellow Jacket
taken away from him. been deprived of his
Three Eyed Peacock Feather and been sent back
in disgrace to crackerdom and the contempla-
ton Of his docket of damage cases, without
conjunction or hesitancy
We are asked, we say, to1bccvc all this and
TO picture to ourselves the Indignation and fury
with which Mr.. Cleveland has watched from
affair." amid the more important labOrs OF WOO
ing the bashful Bass and overcoming the scr,l-
pies OF the hell .grummet." We are invited
TO prepare ourselves to witness the sacrifice of
the unfaithful servants who have defed the
command of the Master and to note with ap-
prevail the stern decree OF the Rhadmnnthls of
Buzzard's Bay. We are asked. in short TO join
the cuckoo chorus and flop PROSTATE before the
Idol. We refuse to do either and feel com
PEELED instead, to throw the icy facts OF an I'M
sympathetic past over the heated Imagination
OF our friends.
The friends of Mr. Cleveland are fond of
procIaiming him as the Champion of the Sound
Money cause. But for his resoute stand they
say against the Bryans. the Altgelds and Till
mans Of an earlier period. reputation and dis
honor would now be the counry's badge But
for him the Government would have gone
down before the onslaught Of the Silver fanat
les. 1t was he that forced an unwilling Sen
ate TO accept the repeal Of the purchasing
clause OF the Sherman Act Ii was he and he
alone who maintained the credit Of the coun-
try 1t was he who prevented the collapse Of
all confidence in the integrity of the Govern
ment and saved the public Treasury from bank
rupfcy and disgrace. We have heard this not
once but many times. in the strldent voice Of
the Cuckoo. We have heard it repeated with
upturned eyes 10y the faithful worshippers
We have listened to is echoes with undsguised
wonder over the simple and nrticss faith which
moves the hearts consecrated to The Cult AT
| the same time we cannot forget that II was Mr.
Cleveland's Administrations let II be borne
in mind that IT was the first and only one TO
do sc-which permitted the suspicion TO go
abroad that the obligations Of the Government
might lawfully be paid in silver as well as In
gold. We cannot forget. either, that II was not
to Mr.. Cleveland. but to the firmness of his
Secretary Of State. General Gresham. no less
than the good luck which attended o last and