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Show REPUBLICAN PARTY AND SILVER. The following piece of "rot" nppcars in tho local gold-bug organ of Thursday: Thurs-day: If silver men had stayed with the Kcnuldlcan party, tho causo of thn while metal would havo boon much nearer full tccognltlon today than ever hofore. Tho Uoniocr.it'to party Is proving a traitor to sllvur, just aS It has proven ltolf to all other great Issues boforo the nation, even to that of free tradt. It Is ft party of promises hut not performances. Tim Itupubll-. can party is the groat party of progress' in tho United States, and If silver M to bn kIvcii its just dues, as It must eventually, event-ually, It will have to bo thrntiKh tho Republican party. Silver men within thn party, of tho Senator Wolcott kind, would have great Influence at this lime for International freo coinage, coin-age, toward which Europe is surely trending. How sllvor would hnvo come any closer to "full recognition" thiough tho instrumentality of a rat ty pledged to tho "existing gold standard" It Is dllllcult to conceive. Neither can any one conceive a causo for the aaorilon that thu "Democratic party Is proving a traitor to silver." On tho contrary every dny more fully shows tho duvotlon duvo-tlon of our party to that great principle. princi-ple. Tio reference to Sonntor Wolcott Wol-cott Is rather Ill-timed, for tho only service tho record shows ho has over rendered to the cause of bimetallism Is to help spend tho money appropriated appropri-ated by n Republican Congress Inn ijuukotlng trip to Europe, whore his outlrc work consisted In having a good timu hobnobbing with European gold bugs. Tho crowning Inconsistency of tho entire article quoted lies In the fa':t that that alleged guldh to morality devotes nearly every hsuo to blurs against "silver fanatics" and renewed pledges of nllegauco to the gold standard. |