Show The Democracy and Silver Sliver It is satisfying to find the jingle ingle gold standard advocates ad occasion- occasion all admitting that the silver question is not dead Of course these ad admissions ad missions are not needed People who keep pace with the developments develop developments developments ments of time know that the demand for free coinage is growing an and that its voting strength is now muc much larger than it was on election da day last year The more frequent th the application of the tariff nostrum nostrum t to the Ills of the people the plainer I isit is it that the only true cure is in a thorough thorough reorganization of our ou our SYstem system of finance in the interest o of t tl people rather than for the advantage advantage ad ad- vantage of the banker and finan finana financier a cier Still the bimetallists hava have hav havea a fight to smile smile smile-if if not indeed t to Let Iet the authorities wake up o on th atter go go out am among among ng th the pe peo peo- peo pie aue ane ask their aid and they thy will wil dem that they are re in favor favor favo of b building an Academy that t will b ba be bea a credit credit to the city over gloat loat over the occasional onal acknowledgment of the gold bug that the overthrow of the silver craze in Novem November er last did not bring i im iii immediate 11 mediate e prosperity It is alwa always s specially especially to the silver silverman silverman silverman man a sort of grateful and 2nd nd easy mental rest from the consideration of f grave problems to see I the go gold d bug ug attempt to justify his his' position p by y the figures of the last election For example the six New England Eng Eng- land and States and the States of N New NewYork NewYork w York New v Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland and Wisconsin cast ast for Bryan votes votes which is a little more than one fourth of all the votes he received in n the United States All of these tates sent anti silver delegations to the ic Democratic National Convention and nd therefore argues the New v York World more than one fourth of Mr dr Bryans Bryan's vote cannot possibly be e claimed as a free silver vote rote It t adds The hist history ry of the free silver liver plot that captured the Democratic Demo- Demo cratic Conventions of f West Virginia Kentucky Ohio Indiana Illinois and Michigan sh shows ws how little sympathy sympathy sym sym sym- pathy athy the rank and file of the Democracy Democracy Democracy Dem Dem- of those states have with the free ree silver cr craze ze Now this is something of a riddle if fit it is not ridiculous What plot plots is s our talking about Perhaps it would be better to turn the he discussion of the plotting bythe gold jold men to o swing Wisconsin New jersey ersey Pennsylvania and other states tates which have turned out to berich be beich berich rich ich in silver Democrats ts If one fourth of those who voted for Bryan were not silver men we may as rightfully assume that one fourth of those hose who voted for McKinley vere were not gold men The Worlds World's demon demonstrates nothing The delegations to Chicago from several of the Eastern States were organized and manipulated against silver and the silver Democrats re registered their r revolt volt against misrepresentation when they got a chance to deposit their ballots The should shou have lave learned b by this time time that the East is is not without silver men There are thousands of them right in New York Yok f City ity and more ol of 01 them Care are coming Cinci Cincinnati Cincinnat Enquirer |