GROVER CLEVELAND TO S. J. RANDALL
Reading edition
"New York, February 9, 1885.
"My dear Sir,—I have received your letter containing a copy of an amendment in relation to the coinage of silver, which it is proposed should be inserted in a bill now pending in Congress, and asking my judgment upon the subject.
"I have some delicacy in saying a word that may be construed by anybody as interfering with the legislation of the present Congress. But so grave do I deem the public emergency that I am willing as a private citizen to say that I think some legislation of the character suggested is eminently desirable.
Very respectfully yours, "Grover Cleveland."