Show POL POLITICAL SITUATION l U TION The gold The gold bug journals journals' teem with announcements that the free silver craze is rap rapidly llly waning and that it will scarcely be a disturbing factor when the N National ion t Conventions Conventions Conven Conven- of the parties construct their platforms The wish ish is father to th the thought There is no doubt that the active politicians and plat platform for form i builders i d r Jn in b both th parties are in favor favor- r. r of f the single gold standard the toe distribution 0 of greenbacks and treas treasury ry notes notes notes' s' s and aAd iid the surrender to banks the function of supplying the paper currency The hanks banks are a mighty ty po political ii aL power S Sherman eiman and Morrill of the republican party Cleveland and Carlisle of th the democratic party ate ale advocating the same policy but they are not the hep people plc The f fact ct that hat these ese politicians see ey eye e to eye ye and are arc ready to act in concert when silver rem is the supreme me i issue sue i is an an anTt invitation to to the he m masses masses ss s to kick out of of the the party traces and and v vote tc their sentiments When Sherman and Cl Cleveland will bolt and de deser desert ert party and make common cause caus against silver it is reasonable to expect expect ex t that tb the friends of silver wil will bolt if their w wishes arc are It is not true that the ar are falling from grace and are becoming more and more mr re a minority They are watching the trend o of things thinKs When a an old democratic Ic leader er like Blackburn of Kentucky whose fe fealty to to party has never been bee questioned fails of a re reelection election to the these senate because of his advocacy of f free silver and his defeat is com corn compassed compassed passed by Cle Cleveland eland and Car Carlisle lisle i it itis itis is a notice to to the i rank and file o othe of the democracy the that that the deliverance of of- ofa f a a p party rt convention n is is not binding bind bind- ing ing- ing It was wu expected that the republican republican can can can m members of r th the legislature legislature would unite with a handful o of sound money democrats and elect elec Carlisle to the seat scat so honorably honorably and ably filled by bV Blackburn lac burn This Thi course would have been beeD consistent with the rule adopted by the gold goh bugs When such men men as as' Cameron Teller Stewart Jones and Carter Carte announce their intention to stand slant by silver and the ominous silence of McKinley and the other presidential presidential q asp aspirants ra ts on this subject i is c considered ni e ed at it is reasonable to con con con- clu elude e that all l is not ot- ot ot's s 's serene rene in th the republican rep n r ranks and th that the silver lunacy instead of being cured i is devel developing pi tt ne new nes s symptoms toms and ha has become cht chronic nic and nd is S contagious s Cin Cincinnati Cincinnati Enquirer |