Show I STRANGELY SOLICITOUS Our morning contemporary is very anxious to have the silver question eliminated from the living issues of the day It has been searching diligently for some slight foundation upon which to build a prophecy to this effect If I someone asks Mr Bryans opinion concerning i con-cerning tho climate of California and he answers the question our neighbor has a ecstatic fit See e it cries in glee Did we not tell you He said nothing about the silver question when he answered that gentleman Yer uncle knows what he Is talking about Silver is doad Yes sir Dead The Chicago platform plat-form may and doubtless will be reaffirmed re-affirmed in the next national convention conven-tion of Democrats but the issue is as dead as a door nail I cant be resurrected resur-rected except perhaps in some of the countries of tho old world But its dead Our neighbor seems to fcrget or i intentionally in-tentionally ignores the facts that Mr Bryan is i talking free coinagetto interested inter-ested multitudes every day that there never vas greater enthusiasm in the silver cause than there Is this year that WIHlam Jennings Bryan Is the I same honest conscientious leader today to-day that he was In 1896 There is one thing we have asked our neighbor to explain before If the request is repeated often enough I may condescend to enlighten a wondering public Why Is it trying to persuade the Democratic party to abandon the cause of independent bimetallism Why does it warn Democrats against silver I as i It wore a pestilence Why does I it admonish the Democratic party that it would b a foolish and fatal mistake mis-take to lean upon silver next year as it dad in 1896 Why is it s anxious to convince Democracy that i would be suicide to repeat the elfort of 1S9G I the Republican organ so interested in the welfare of the Democratic organization or-ganization that it shudders to think of the fate in store for those who remain loyal to the principle of bimetallism Or has It come to despise silver so completely com-pletely that i is ready to advise all parties and persons to shun i Will ou neighbor can i dare i explain |