Show THE SILVER controversy THE passage of the silver bill in the senate of the U united cited states was a great surprise to the country the object of its passage just now is evidently political both parties fear the silver bill and its effects on the presidential election that there are sincere silver men in both parties must be conceded that each party contains contain men vehemently opposed to the free coinage movement cannot be disputed but what does the country want it t in must not be clear to every unbiased mind tbt has given attention to both sides of the matter that while the west mad and south demand an immediate return to the bi am of the early days of the republic the east which fiffas the vast at majority ma bority of voters voter Is ie not converted to ftfe western idea but views f free rea coin bolya age ae as a threatening financial disaster instead of promising the good think thing which the silver allver men predict for its adoption whatever the politicians loans cans of either party may claim to the contrary neither harrison nor cleveland favors favora the policy embodied in the bill that has hae so eo unexpectedly passed the senate they each have too broad a comprehension of the divided feeling of the public and an understanding of the preponderance of popular sentiment against free silver to openly espouse 1 its caused cause and it seems to us that while free silver republicans and alad democrats should be urgent ii i i press prees i it rg g their claims upon congress and the country they should not close their eyes to the fact of the eastern sentiment nor to the difficulties which eon confront front both of the candidates for the presidency it is probable however that the allver bill will be so manipulated by ito ite 1 opponents of both parties in the ff hauae oua that it will not reach a vote on its merits before the great political contest which to la to culminate ul minate in november this will relieve the present administration greatly and do no damage to the op posing party |