Show WH WHY WAS IMPOSSIBLE D By this time it must be as plain to as to everybody else that all attempts to reconcile the McKinley Republicans and the free silver Republicans are futile Those who have been devoting themselves to the task of of reconciliation have failed simply because they undertook undertook undertook under under- took to accomplish the impossible ble H Hal Hai a they y allowed their clear reason and sound judgment to guide them instead ad of their sy sympathies and wishes in the matter t they ey would at once have seen h how w hopeless how utterly hopeless was the task they had undertaken What have they been trying to todo do They have been trying to make themselves and their friends believe th that t they could oud at once support free silver and anti- anti free silver Could anything be more absurd and illogical than the proposition proposition proposition prop prop- I to support for president a aman aman aman man who favors free silver but to elect a congressman and a senator who stand by him on one question but oppose him on others Could anything be more absurd and illogical 1 than to elect a congressman and senator as s republicans who would be hostile to the Republican I president on the one great issue of this campaign and who would I dlo ill all H it Ili f ft t their t power potter X O to o block k every very IL I- I II I Iff measure of legit le is i's d l hit hc he I s tl d I ii lil they ha I elied in l ng I that thit legislation tion enacted which winch the they sired dr-sired l anti and h h 1 h he lie opposed The l inley RepublicanS RepublicanS' and the free silver Republicans cannot harmonize because the one great and overshadowing ving issue issue this year ear earis is the question of the free and in independent independent independent in- in dependent com coinage age of silver at the thera ra ratio io of 16 I G to i r and the former oppose op oppose oppose op- op pose it and the latter favor it They are as completely and as irreconcilably ably separated on this question as asare asart art are the Democrats who indorse endorse the Chicago platform an and the republicans cans who enclose the St. St Louis plat form The Independent Republicans cans have shrunk from ing ins the true situation and meeting the inevitable ine That situation is that they are no longer in ill the national national nat nat- ional Republican party that inevitable inevitable table is is' that they must fight the national Republican party if they do not acknowledge its supremacy Her ld |