The silver star., 1897-05-13

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tionable transactions, that the sem
ate authorized thh finance commit
tee of that bodyito investigate these
bond deals. The committee met in
New York and called before them
Morgan and Belmont, the parties
with whom the president and secre-
tary of the treasury made the trans
action, and inquired of them what
profit was made in the purchase
and sale of these bonds. The gen.
tlemen declined to answer. They
were further inquired of who re-
ceived the profits of the transaction.
The gentlemen declined to answer.
For some unaccountable reason
the matter was dropped and the in
vestigation abandoned without
making report to the senate. It.
would have been very easy for the
senate committee to have called
Morgan and Belmont to Washing
ton and put the same questions to
them which they asked them in
New York, and if they had failed to
answer the courts would have found
lodgings for them at public ex-
pense.
1t may be that these transactions
so bound Cleveland and his party to
the money powers who wanted Nc
Kinley with a view of similar finan-
cial proceedings, and particularly
with view of maintaining the sim
gle gold standard, that Mr.. Cleve-
land dared. not do otherwise. He
had taken too many steps in the
wrong direction to retrace them in
that emergency. To keep in line
or to keep under cover he did as
Belmont and Morgan required him
to do in the election, and now, for
sooth, pretends that he didn't know
that it was the Republican party he
was aiding; that he did not know
the Republican party was for tariff;
that he did not know anything
about the Republican party, and,
therefore, he sacriiced himself sfns a
patriotic effort to save the country
from bimetallism, and to keep on
the road to ruin through gold con-
traction and falling prices.
Let Grover squirm as much as he
may; the fact remains that he sold
his party to the goldites; that ho
betrayed the trust his party had re-
posed in him, and that he knew.
when he aided the election of Nc
Kinley, exactly what the Republi-
can party proposed to do, because
they proclaimed it in their platform.
His whining and skulking now like
a sheep-killing cur of the meanest
type, about the bad conduct of the
Republican party to excuse himself
from downright act of treachery
and the fraudulent use of patronage
to elect Mckinley, shows that moth
ing can surpass his treachery and
deceit except his egotism and impu-
Hide your face, Grover, for thou
art a cur, beneath the notice of the
most degraded.
There is one gift which nature
has bestowed upon the unmitigated
who cursed the country
with his presence in the white house
for eight years, and that is the pow
er of uttcring unctuous, unmeaning,
false and bombastic platitudes. The
following is fair example;
Nothing can explain or excuse inac.
tion ON the part of those who can make
no compromise with the advocates Of
unsound money or who love their coun.
trys honor more than self.advsntags. or
who are convinced that an unstable and
unsafe currency inevitably bodes the
greatest depth Of loss and misfortune to
all the people Of the land. These should
not delude themselves. Tho peril they
dread ID directly impending.
If Mr.. Cleveland had studied the
truth he would have said that "the
peril they dread" has been inflicted
Upon the country for the last twcn-
ty years by conspiracy Of bad
men who stopped the coinage Of
silver, and thereby cut off half the