Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1891-04-19 | Page 1 | Views of a Western Delegate

Views of 0 Western Delegate CHICAGO April 18W F Forrest of Seattle Wn delegate to the Kansas City Commercial congress arrived here today Speaking of the congress he said he did not think any good would come from it direct I will set people to thinking and in that way ultimately perhaps be of some benefit While most of the Pacinc coat would like the free coinage of American Ameri-can silver they want a protective duty on it to keep out the foreign product at least unti England agrees to a bimetallic standard stand-ard They dont believe the passage of such laws will prove the panacea the farmers expect The trouble with the farmers is said he they think they are pretty badly off and not knowing exactly what they need for their relief clutch at the free sil ver idea and free trade too But they wont get either Speaking of the national political feeling in his state Senator Forrest thought it would go Republican in 1S92 and that Blaine was the choice The Democrats of the state went for Cleveland and the latters stand Lon L-on silver wont hurt him