Show I FAREWELL FAREWELLI 1 Our morning contemporal is grieved I it says because It has been derided for its desertion of the silver cause It ob jccls to anyone who has not shoutell I 10 lonE and fO loudly for silver maln light of its departure And It tries to explain that It has slven free coinage I so much and such eloquent lip service In the past that it Ought to be allowed to depart for the goldbug Calllp In sl I 1euce t Ye quite agree with it Nothing could be further from our Intentions than to treat Its going lightly Its departure is 11 positive calamitynot only to the cause of bimetallIsm but to the Republican Re-publican part as well Yet there vas no way to avert it It has been inJlt able since McKinley carried the election elec-tion three years ago We all know how hard it struggled against Its wealmes how it hung back in the traces as it were how piteous it called for the bill too come to it and how mournfully Its procession started for the hill Ye are nut so irreverent asto smile even Inconsolable we view the aching void I It leaves And ret we wish It well After an it may be for the best fhe loss of silver may be the gain of gold Let us hope that the cause of Independent Inde-pendent bimetallism may be enabled somehow or other to struggle along in the direction of its goal There is always an overmastering desire de-sire on the part of some people to climb into the band wagon It seems to have I ben irresistible in the case of our i neighbor We neither ride nor derIde Its grief finds gImpat11 in our 11eart of hearts Ye mingle QUI tears with its own Again old friend we say farewell A long a sad farewell A |