| Show BREACH ONCE MORE MY FRIENDS ON ju JUNE juie ie president cleve wl in his omnipotent wisdom ant gat to the public through the medium 0 of f a newspaper of new york his m manifesto ani festo of dis approval ipp ruval of the free coinage of silver saver grover cleveland stands today a as the personification of the gold deity of the east he poses ij in his letter as an unselfish democrat with no desire or ambition to fulfill save and except to preserve the rich traditions of democracy how the man can assume such a position pos i tion and defend it upon the ground of democratic tradition is one of the mysteries of politics in the face of the utterances of the fathers of Nm democracy for over half a cen tuy tun and the platform of principles for many years past including 25 tie the one upon which president cleveland was elected to the high office he now holds his letter and former attitude betakes betakas more of mockery thin than sincerity it is more like eke the plea of a police court pettifogger ti than the rea reasoning sonin of a statesman not one single argument is offered in favor of the golden image but the whole party is commanded to bow down and worship at his behest the letter is written manifestly in a spirit of anxiety lest the party at chicago should follow the dictation of the people and relieve themselves from the oppressive hand of the money power and I 1 this false prophet which has arisen arisen in in the camp of the party of jefferson and jackson in his letter he assumes that to restore silver to its constitutional prerogative would bring disaster to our oar party organization this last sentence reads like a grim joke when ire e remember the disaster that has tended mended the country aud and the party em since he began his attack on tt the money of the people and in furor of the shylocks shy locks of the present day in hi his self conscious arrogance ro gance he brands the silver movement as unpatriotic patriotic un nn and foolish surrounded as he is by a few nabobs nabors of wealth he is is unable to aft se an anything but their immense accumulations of gold and can hear naught e but the clinking of their bright colus coins as they fall from the toiling 0 masses into their rapacious pockets ock ets he cannot see the stagnation in all lines of business in the country neither can he hear the groins groans and murmurs of an oppressed and outraged people gro r cleveland has been a disappointment to his party and the country he is inflated with the idea of his own importance hence he is throw throwing ng himself into the breach lith to the vain hope that he can aeck eck the rising tide ol 01 of f a justly indignant people in their determine oa to right the most cold blooded wrongs ever perpetrated upon a 6 tre people we are glad the president wrote that letter ater it will have the effect of edifying I 1 the free silver forces on the e theory that whichever side grover rover cleveland takes on oa the oney question it is safe to get on toe the opposite side he has no more political influence in the democratic I 1 party than the ghost of hamlets father unless it be with the ieuka officeholders office holders and even they are begia ung g t to 0 desert him as lid did the mends of cardinal cuan wolsey wid and with hira him he may ahad I 1 bertea my peopled people aa well wa as F luce S i served the god of gold they wc would uld I 1 not now leave ule me to mine infirmity l he closes his letter with the as that he seeks no further honor but to be a private in the ranks this was wholly unnecessary as by no possible contingency could any any honors be thrust upon him by the democratic party the fact is he be could not be elected to the office of school trustee in any democratic precinct in in the united states in the meantime let all true friends of free silver take courage the prospects grow brighter every day the attitude of the th e president P re a 1 is no new feature and this contribution to the cause of the single standard only concedes the desperate situation in which he and his co partners are am in we only trust that grover will continue to write until the convention meets let him send out daily bulletins and keep up the correspondence without break 0 0 that mine enemy would write a book said the wise man we are hoping to hear from you some more mr president |
