Show TITS T-ITS FAREWELL TO SILVER Hannas organ in this city has discarded dis-carded the last profession of adherence i to the cause of silver In its issue of i yesterday it announced that the fight for silver wasabandoned by i The announcement was none the less explicit ex-plicit because I lacked the honesty and candor to declare itself traitor to a cause adherence to which had hitherto I Avon I prominence and standing among those who believed a wrong had been I done to mankind when the Republican I party in 1873 destroyed half the primary pri-mary money of the United States I So far as the Tribune Is concerned i its present position is fullj as logical las l-as that of the old lady who declared 1 that i Providence had intended her to I cross the ocean she would never have I been born on an island Every statement state-ment to justify Its desertion of silver and the silver men whose support have made It i what it is is but adiscordant II revamping of the arguments used in the campaign of 96 by goldbugs Providence alone can explain the feelings of that writer who but a few months ago nev r drew aught but his salary and a silver breath After all it is truly pitiful that so doughty a champion should so easily have succumbed suc-cumbed and i adds but another illustration illus-tration to the well known fact that the distinction between fury and faithfulness faithful-ness between convulsions and convic I wide tions Is as it has always been heaven I |