Show 1 JL DEPEW Ifc I HONOR I CLEVELAND I Does Not Agree With the I t I President on His Free Trade Ideas I FRANKNESS AND FAIRNESS These However Appeal Strongly to Him i To Cleveland More Than Any Other fs One Ian is Dnc Chaimcy ThinUs the Rout of the FreeCoinage of I I Silver Policy and the Energizing of the Xatlonal Credit hy the Triumph Tri-umph of Sound Money The Period of Distress is Over Because Therein There-in a Gold Lining to the Cloud 1 NEW YORK April lSThe Mon I tauk club of Brooklyn tonight gave a dinner in honor of Chauncey M De pews birthday Around the board were I gathered many of the most distinguished distinguish-ed citizens of Brooklyn Dr Depew who was the guest of honor was called upon for a speech at the close of the feast The unique feature of his address I was his reference to Grover Cleveland J F I Speaking of president he said While I differ widely from President i Presi-dent Cleveland on almost every part of his nubile policy while I think his theories s far a ihey have been Ii practically carried out have been disastrous I dis-astrous and i wholly carried out would have been fatal to our industries nevertheless in the frankness and the fairness of this platform it is due to him today to say that the route of the t fred coinage of silver Dolicy and the f energizing of the national credit by the 1 triumph of sound money are more largely due to his throwing upon that r side with magnificent courage and 1 ability the whole strength and power j e of his great office and of his adminis p tration than to anything else While we have had a period of distress t dis-tress which has brought so much sufi suf-i fering to millions of homes and while I the cost has been more than that of a I disastrous war yet the suffering has not been in vain and the cost has not been lost if I shall have gained for us in education by discussion and by the experiences of our people the death c of the absurdities of populism and the triumph of more sound money currency I i cur-rency which shall keep this the great v trading business trding and commercial nation na-tion of the world 1 |