Show CLEVELAND AND SILVER president andrews of brown university one of the on the part of the united states to the monetary conference recently held at brussels in a lecture before the commercial club of last saturday evening aid the democratic party will not carry silver men with it as it did before it can not nominate another cleveland who knows how to keep his own counsel on the question and acet the support of both elements on the money issue rolph president Pret ident andrews may be there is not a particle of sense in the foregoing declaration in fact nonsense president cleveland did not his own counsel on the illier question lie slopped over than any other public man ever did before he yas foolishly forward in thrusting his views before the public see his letter to carlisle under date of february after he had been elected president but before he was inaugurated a roost untimely and impertinent letter this was a week before his message was due but he WAS in such baste to down the bland law that ho anticipated his official utterances as follows in parti I 1 hope that yon concur with me and with the great majority citizens in deeming it most desiraye desi rabe at the prewit to maintain and continue to use the mass of our gold coin as well as ane of silver already coined this is possible by a present suspension of the purchase and coinage of dilver lam not aware that by any other method it ie pos aible ills of momentous importance to prevent the two ficiala from parting company id prevent lie increasing displacement of fold by the increasing coinage of in ane bouses of alie united slate in the dally of the people prevent the expulsion of nt ll by allver such a nn anuial rifle as these bevente would precipitate were it now to follow upon iso long a period of commercial depression would involve the people of every city and elate in alie union 1 a prolonged nud disastrous trouble mr cleveland wrote another letter feb to tho clial anian of the cooper union meeting in new york as follows doth lettai that he is the inveterate enemy ol 01 silver 33 ellery anderson chairman dear sir I 1 have thia afternoon received your note inviting me to attend tomorrow evening the meeting called for the purpose of voicing tho position of the business men of our city as to the free coin the united states I 1 shall not be able to attend and address the meeting as TOU request but I 1 am glad that the business utterance of newport are at last to be beard on this subject it aurely cannot be necessary for me to make a formal expression of my agreement with those who believe that the greatest peri I 1 would be invited by the adoption ot the embraced in the measures now pending in congress for the unlimited coinage of silver at our mints if we have developed an unexpected capacity for the assimilation of a largely increased volume of this currency and even if ye have demonstrated the usefulness of such an increase other conditions fall far short of insuring u against disaster if in the present situation we enter upon the dangerous the reckless experiment of free unlimited and independent silver coinage yours very truly the last letter was written daring the time that the slate was being made up for 1892 and it was thought that mr cleve lands radical position on silver would defeat him but the proved the contrary it was not cleveland silence or the keeping of hie own counsel that nominated and elected him but other causes one ef which senator morgan now says was the use of large turns of money in procuring his nomination the areat cause of the defeat of and the election of cleveland was the unrest of the people a blind striking out at misfortune and depression in business the people had it dinned into their ears by a thousand tongues that protection was th causo of the trouble and many of them believed it and concluded to inaugurate a change in the fiscal management of the government an experiment which is already perceived to be based on a milsap of the economic problem there was not a particle of prudente pru denee shown by mr cleveland as a reason for bis getting the support of both wings of the democratic party the galdine and bimetallic every one knew his position and it was the subject of e comment the reason why he got the nomination notwithstanding his radical views was that the silver question had not vet become such a burning question tion in thea minds of the people as it Is now the trend of events has been such thai it has bacome an issue one that will not down attao bidding of the gold bugs schemers and demagogues of both parties the people are aca innone to understand the question and when they once understand it they will tolerate no sophistries or aub |