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Show Register Our Kick. The Chicago platform declared against the Bhermau act of 1600 ns a miserable makeshift. Golnghandlnhand with this declaration was the further ono favoring tho colnngu of both gold and silver without discrimination ngalnst either. Tho silver issue, however, cut but lltlluflgu rein thu lastnalionalcAinpaign. Tho battle was waged around thu tariff, Tho McKluley net was tho bono of contention. con-tention. Yet by strnngo mela mor-pilosis mor-pilosis Mr, Cleveland wou Boarceiy elected, before hu becifmo u convert to tho Wall Street idea that tho comparatively compar-atively haruilesH Sherman net (not the whole of it, cither, ns thu platform said, biitineicly the purchasing cladse),wa the source of all our mlsterios It. was alleged with much apparent accuracy that thu presidential Inlluencu was ustjd' in many quarters to secure the passage of the lopealact. It is certainly true that in response to tl.o demands of the eastern monicd centers, vitally interested interest-ed in tho contraction of our currercy Mr, Cleveland called a special session oi Congress to consider what? not tho repeal nflho iniquitous tnritfoct but tho annihilation of tho purchasing clauso, an evil appearing much greater to many people in Juno of last year than at the present writing. Tho tarill was comiclled to wait for more than a year after the pooplo had spoken, mid this notwithstanding the fact that by a concensus ot opinion among tho most intelligent leaders ot tho party, thu delay would only cause our condition to go from bud to worsu by delay nml uncertainty and by giving to the protected clashes an oppcitiiniy to work upon public sentiment by creating creat-ing nn apparent nnd possibly, by in advertauce, a real panic. When finally thu Wilson bill did como. forth from the lunula ot tho furniors, to-wit, the subcommittee sub-committee ot thu IIoubo CominitUoon Ways and Menus, witli Be retarv Carlisle (and therefore thu administration) administra-tion) lidded, It wni found to lxi ultra conservative, ami not the measure that suited the predominate sentiment of (he party, yet It wns recommended by tho President and Congress. It contains numbers ot excellent features, fea-tures, but many incongruities, but notwithstanding not-withstanding tho latter, it is a measure that would uirbrd much relief to tho overburdened musses. Yet it has been delayed and amended beyond the limit of patience, nnd so far as can bu determined deter-mined from n distance, it is pursuing Its uncertain and unsatisfactory way, without any part of that executive ln lluencu so freely nnd patiently exerted. In behult of thu Sherman act rueal, What is thu explanation of all this I The popular will has been largely1, thwarted by Inaction and recreancy. |