Show 4 T V te JL ic I 1 I 1 I 1 T 7 C ir t I 1 E r I a 2 1 q SILVER MUIR i IS THE iss ISSUE GE a TARIFF WILL CUT N NO 0 FIG 9 IN THE CAMPAIGN the nr rop ulista looming vp the art st power in american rail tle ca adre or of n silver Pies president ident la in 1807 1 shadow I 1 of com ing wnm day by day it becomes clearer ft that lat the great issue of 1896 w will be whether the american people shall return ato to the honest money 0 of the ifie constitution 17 the complete restoration of silver or permit themselves to be dragged to their death and destruction it at the th wheels eels of glands En golden chariot that Is the issue and there la Is no winking it the senseless drivel about 50 cent dollars and honest money presents an issue that Is absolutely false and if the people will study the question a little they will see it IL there ls Is n no ci question of a fifty cent dollar involved it Is a one dundr hundred ad cent dollar or a two hundred cent d dollar ol 01 which the gold dollar actually Is the republican convention goes to st bt louis in that convention there will be a tremendous struggle over the money plank the extreme silver air verb men will have nothing less than free coinage at 16 to 1 1 unless they get it there will doubtless be several spokes knocked out of the republican wheel then and there the democratic convention comes to chicago but no one looks for a representative senta Benta tive convention two thirds of the democratic party are tor for free coinage it if the administration and the money power together do not capture ure the convention it will certainly be a grand triumph corthe for the people it if the sentiments of the rank and file of the party do not find expression both lu ii the platform and the candidates there will not only be some soine spokes knocked out of the democratic wheel but the hub will go too that Is these things will take place it if silver democrats are true to their principles as we believe they are then the populist party Is looming up as an unquestioned power in american politics in the creed of this alon there Is much that Is good and it has bas in its ranks some very able and admirable men the more conservative of its elements understand that they cannot expect to bowin win in the near future on all of their issues in order to win at all they must plant themselves on middle ground where the dissatisfied elements of other parties can meet the them in should they conclude to make bimetallism the paramount issue it may lead to combinations that will revolutionize the country on the instant a conference of leading men was held in washington for the purpose of outlining a policy this conference was composed of men from all parties and all sections ns and was a fair representation of the average silver sentiment of the country the national executive committee of the populist party has appointed a committee to confer with the american bimetallic union at washington thus events thicken and the tide of silver sentiment rolls on the campaign of 1896 bids fair to be the most momentous and exciting of any since the close of the war and the th a I ghost of free silver of which we have heard so much will be the grand central figure of the play |