People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — CLEVELAND CAUTIOUS. [ARTICLE]

CLEVELAND CAUTIOUS.

members of the Cabinet to Talk ‘‘Sound Currency.” Washington, May 15.—Members of the administration who are to take the road for the purpose of talking finance-Secretary Smith is now in Georgia, Comptroller of Currency Eckels in Michigan, and Secretary Carlisle and other members of the cabinet will soon be in other states—have been, it is said, instructed by President Cleveland not to talk gold standard, but to confine themselves to fighting the free coinage of silver and advocating a “sound currency.” This does not mean' that President Cleveland has abandoned his single gold standard ideas, but that the cold reception given to Secretory Morton’s open advocacy of a single gold standard has made him cautious. The whole power of the administration is to be used to prevent the free coinage men capturing the next democratic national convention. But such conservative democrats as Senator Jones, of Arkansas, who is now in JYashington, are predicting that the next democratic convention will declare in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver, and that the republican convention will adopt a plank favoring international bimetallism; If these predictions turn out to be correct, where will Mr. Cleveland stand in the next campaign?

Carl Brown turned up in Washington May Ist. to <Seiebrate the anniversary of tKe attempt of Coxey’s army ctfotfffe commonweal to hold a meeting on the Capital steps last year. He is as talkative as ever, but he is otherwise a very different looking man from Coxey's lieutenant. Instead of the leather suit, slouch hat and flannel shirt, which were then the most notable articles in his apparel, he now wears a black frock coat, striped trousers, well blacked shoes and a shiny silk hat, and looks like the politician that he really is. He says he expects to be sent to jail for criminal libel in the case which is to be tried at Canton, Ohio, the first of next month.

In an open letter to President Cleveland, published here this week. Senator Stewart arraigns the administration for allowing both its foreign and its financial policy to be dominated by Great Britain. He says ironically in that open letter: “It now appears that your wise and patri otic statesmanship is not confined to the limits of a sound British financial policy for the people of the United States, but includes your cordial co-opera-tion in the policy of conquest and dominion for the mother country.” * * * “Your success in eliminating from the constitution the insolent assumption of an independent financial policy for the United States, inspires a resonable hope that you may be able in the near future, not only to render obsolete that other preposterous assumption found in the pretended authority, in the aforesaid insubordinate instrument, to raise reve nues by duties on imports, but also to remove every other unnatural obstruction to the legitimate authority of Great Britain to manage and control our domestic affairs from the same magnanimous and disinterested motives that she now manages and comrolsour foreign affairs.” * * * *-Do not be discouraged by the ‘crazy clamor’ of unthinking cranks for an independent financial policy or an independent foreign policy for the United States, but continue to regard such unreasonable contentions as resuiting from narrow pi-ejudice, engendered by such rebels, fanatics and anarchists as Washington. Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln, and their deluded followers. ”

Nobody seems to know just where the administration “is at” in that England-Nicaragus business. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, who is chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations, the members of which it has been a custom of all administrations to consult, said in a public interview bristling throughout with stalwart Americanism that he did not know what the administration had done Or what it intended to do but he made it very plain that he had no doubts about what it ought to do. A lively time may be expected when congress calls for the correspondence relating to this affair, as it is certain to do soon after the assembling of the next session, and unless that correspondence is different from what it is supposed to be President Cleveland will find the next congress much more disagreeable than the last one, which he complained so much about.

Mrs. Leland Stanferd was in Washington lately to confer with Attorney-General Olney concerning the suit which the government has brought against the estate of her husband, the late Senator Stanford. She wants the hearing of the suit expedited, as it is embarrassing the estate, and the AttorneyGeneral promised her he would push it along as fast as he could. This suit is brought under the laws of California, which makes each stockholder of a corporation liable for his proportion of its debts, in anticipation of the failure of the Central Pacific railroad, in which the Stanford estate owns $15,000,000 of stock, to pay $60,000,000 it owes the government.