COMMENTS OF THE PRESS Butte Miner On numerous occasions the Miner has had occasion to refer to the unjust and often vindictive things the goidbus press thought It necessary to say of the Hon William J Bran since the declaration of war He was advised In one breath to enlist In the next breafh when he had taken the advice he was accused of having ulterior motives in so doing I seemed Impossible for him to give satisfaction to the gold press anyway any-way Denver Post The presidents policy In ignoring the demands of army safety and efllclency il making his appointments Is little short of criminal I is already responsible of I sponsible for the needless shedding American blood and lucky indeed will we be It I the worst Is not yet to come Baltimore American There can be no I question that one of the most brilliant olllcers of the navy is Commodore Schtey His record Is line all the way through and when the war broke out he was at once recognized as one of the men for I supreme command The placing of the flying squadron under him was hailed with approbation by the whole country I was a long time before he was permitted permit-ted to do anything but within a few days after his ships were released from Hampton I Hamp-ton Roads he had solved thepuzzle the Spanish souadron and located It In the harbor of Santiago I Helena Independent Like the boy who whistles to keep his courage up the Republican Re-publican party managers are making much political music these days They are calling attention to the result of the II Oregon election as an evidence that the freesilver sentiment Is dying out In this country and that the Chicago platform Is ripe for another funeral To be sure there Is not much real consolation In the purchase of a United States senatprshlp I for few states crfn be relied upon to yield to such corrupt influences as prevailed In Ohio and Oregon but such as I Is the Krjjubllcanb are making the most I of i I I Denver Repub lean The position of the leaders of bimetallisms hosts Is a good one to give heed to The friends of free coinage cannot afford to take up the cry for imperialism for that is what the gold lies want because it will assure the driving driv-ing of bimetaHsm from the field as the meat Issue of 1M O > i I I