Show GONE MAD We fear the people of Colorado are losing theIr heads Much silver has made them mad Unfortunately the affliction is confined con-fined to no class but Includes all without regard to conditions or circumstances A good deal of this insanity could be endured if it were restricted to Republicans It would not make much difference whether they wrecked themselves on silvorbaaring i rock or anything else so long as they are bent on destruction But when Democrats persist in going insane or at least in doing crazy things it is annoying If one didnt know better ho would get tho impression from reading the Colorado I papers that the Centennial state was about to proclaim control of the United States and announce to the other members of the federation that they couldnt be in it except on certain conditions The Republicans Repub-licans are going to Minneapolis to make war upon every man who doec not say that the free and unlimited coinage of silver and that too right now is the only thing that will save the republic from immediate collanse Thn Dnmnrratii urn pnlntr tn nr 00 Chicago with the same lay out II The two national conventions being over the Colorado Democrats and Republicans are coming home and pooling their issues are going to proceed and elect a President and VicePresident upon a solid silver platform in that way showing the effete east what a great western state can do in an emergency Now all this is very big and very formidable formid-able as it appears in the newspapers We do not doubt that the masses of Colorado citizens really believe what they read in their journals and actually think that if neither the Chicago convention nor that at Minneapolis puts itself squarely erect on the silver question the jig will be up with both tho great parties To other people tht Colorado folks are simply making themselves them-selves ridiculous Colcrado is a great state in the extent of its territory and in the esteem of its patriotic citizens but when we come to size it up and give it its place in the councils of the nation wo find that of eightyeight United States Senators it has just two of 850 members of the House of Representatives it contributes one and of 444 votes which will be cast in the electoral elec-toral college all of three will ba deposited by the Centennial state I We are aware that this showing does not comport well with the orofessions of the Colorado nrpsq rat r-at this time but the exhibition has the virtue of being correct It is to be regretted that the good people on the other side of the range are making such a ludicrous spectacle of themselves It is to bo regretted that they blind their eyes to the situation and take a course to injure the good cause in which we are all quito as deeply interested as they can possibly be Any person per-son of ordinary intelligence knows as well today as he will know after the conventions adjourn that an open advocate of free coinage will not be nominated either at Minneapolis or Chicago Everybody knows that if such an advocate were nominated ho would be literally swept out of existence at the polls in November and with him would go the party which mado him its standardbearer Everybody knows that the free coinage of silver will not be made an issue In this years campaign because neither party has the courage to put it forward Then what sense is there in the holy spectacle which the Coloradoans are presenting Because our neighbors cannot obtain at once what they want why should they take leave of their senses and run around in search of stone walls against which to beat thoir beads The thing for Colorado to do as It is the thing for all the friends of silver to do is to go with their respective parties to Minneapolis I Min-neapolis and Chicago and labor for the best recognition it is possible to obtain for the white metal Having done that they should continue the agitation continue the campaign of education and not get mad and destroy themselves It the Colorado people obey their newspapers the vote of the Centennial state will be counted among the scattering for there is not another state in tho Union whose press is so reckless and desperate or whose people I can be led into theidiotio course which our neighbor is pursuing |