Show NOT DEAD NOR SLEEPING I Nobody is talking silver any more oh1 That is the reason perhaps that f the Tnb i killed a column report oft of-t a great slier meeting held In New York City on Monday and printed Ji nothing but a single remark of Con grossman Lentz concerning its Tagal Washington A year ago it would have been willing to print the news concern inS the work of national bimetajlists L Nobody is talking silver any more it says while Democratic orators and conventions are preaching sermons tot to-t the American people every day on the t silver text of the Chicago platform and the people themselves are more enthusiastically t1e thens r thusiastically in favor ot free coinage and more determined to win the battle mOe bJlte I I Tif independent bimetallism than they I were three years ago p The greatest silver meetings ever held outside of a political campaign have been held this year with the most stirring l stir-ring addresses and theJ pronounced if success In Kentucky Oho Indiana Illinois Pennsylvania New York Rhode Island Massachusetts and In almost if al-most every state of the east and middle mid-dle west these meetings were conducted f conduct-ed and the people arefound to be more r anxious to hear free silver talk and less prejudiced against the cause than ever r before t c In view of these facts which are related re-lated daily by the wires and printed In full in all western newspapers that have no object In suppressing the news i seems strange that any boastful pioneer pio-neer in the movement should desert it < k now and assign as an excuse that silver p sil-ver is dead or that nobody is talking talk-Ing silver any more The New York Journal which has r been feeling the public pulse for sometime f some-time on the financial situation which feared that bimetallism was a hard to times ifbue and that the public was I not intelligent enough to realize its importance j im-portance when war and mining distributed distrib-uted vo much gold among them has I made the discovery that the free silver i sil-ver issue Is paramount and that nothing I noth-ing can prevent Bryans nomination on a bimetallic platform next year James Creelman who made a tour of c Ohio for the Journal and attended the state convention to ascertain precisely z the temper of the Democracy rendered reader of the Journal this verdict There has never been a larger or more enthusiastic Democratic convention in the f I state Everywhere one saw the face of Bryan Lvery second man in the street i ha a portrait of Uryan on his breast I J rj delegate and every officer of the I < convention wore a Hryan badge There l vas I colossal portrait of Bryan hung behind the cnmcntion Platform The off r > cial iflatform of the convention was c Z adorned with his face Every time Pry un > name or personalitywas even hinted g y al in rue proceedings of the convention 3k the great audience roared comenton is provai 111 v t f McLean was nominated but his platform plat-form was rejected as too conservative As n pioneer in the silver cause who remains re-mains faithful to the double standard he was nominated but no attention was r pav3 to the plans or policies of the mal ma-l chine Machines cannot have their way t In ihe national affairs of Democracy They must fall into line or drop out entirely en-tirely A Creelman says this tre niendous Democratic tie has sucked < Into its wake all the artificialities of j machine politics It has engulfed Cro kerlsm in New York and McLeanism in Ohio Ohiod he adds that while McLean has wealth and power and a following all JfclS own he has abandoned l and ihroxvn himself into the great political stream which seems t sweep everything every-thing before it Bryanism is like a I I mighty mountain torrent I may be checked but it cannot l > e checked I within the Democratic party 1 4 t t 1 kI Is hard to realize says this e L erienced staff correspondent oC the l Journal that in spite a the enorjnous PJ Ver Of ma nmepolltics a jisan liv 1 ig i the heioINbrasleayIthobt 4Ic or powerwr LWtunec < ssOIVc j the plans of experienced and powerful I 1 l c l leadersnorth south cat and = west and lhdxno matter what platforms < platform-s offeredJin a Democratic convention before It is adopted it must bear the Impress of Mr Bryans personality j The platform upon which McLean was nominated for governor wasnot his own To quote 11 Creelman further I This platform is not a machinemade thing I is t the practically unanimous j expression of Ohio Democracy an out surging of the native feeling meeting a I thousand political currents flowing in from the surrounding states And In conclusion he sounds this warning which may as well be heeded by exsilver champions of the west and by widely known editors who hug the delusion that Bryans inlluencc is waning hI Is important that the people peo-ple In the eastern states should understand under-stand clearly that no power on earth can now prevent Mr Bryan from being be-ing the candidate of hisparty for president pres-ident next year and that no change can be mad in the financial plank of national Whatever the partys natonal platform ever the effect of this struggle may have upon business next year much can be gained 9Y having the acts understood un-derstood in advance I Silver is dead is it Nobody is talking talk-ing silver any more e I |