Show t MUCH VIRTUE IN IF I the corrupt use of money can compass com-pass the defeat of silver resolutions in both conventions said the Tribune In the spring of JSSG the two great national na-tional parties will again try t straddle the Issue I either party declares unequivocally unequivocal-ly for free coinage it is the duty of every silver man to give it his nld and encouragement until the good fight is over and victory Is won said our nelshbor I the delegates lo the Chicago convention vent can be bought as they were bought at St Louis we warn our Democratic Dem-ocratic friends said the Tribune that every silver plank proposed for the platform will be rejected for we know something of the power of newspapers and the corrupt use of money I Bryan is defeated said the organ after the conventions were held it will be because American manhood has been debauched because the allot Lox has been defiled because ltKring men have ben Driven to he poJJs like slaves and newspapers which should be Independent have been subsidized I McKinley is elected and h does I nothing for silver Ills > administration will be voted a flat failure Inside of three years and our contemporary asked exchanges to paste tins prediction predic-tion upon their office walls I nothing comes of the Walcott commission com-mission and the president goes no further in the direction c establishing bimetallism in this country there is but qne thing left for selfTrespecthig silver men in the Republican party to do said the Tribune And now although Its tune is changed chang-ed i continues with the original If Touchstone to find Much virtue In If certain individuals have their way in the next national campaign silver will not be the leading issue it saC and hies away to the Hanna camp I things continue a they have been drifting there will be other issues than silver Issues says out morning contemporary con-temporary in explanation of its renunciation ciation of silver and its abandonment of independent bimetallism i I the Republican party can have its I way It will force war issues to the front in order to draw Republicans of the Tribune stripe to its bosom again j while it continues t work by stealth for the single gold standard I Is the only peacemaker said Shakespeares motley fool a I is still a power with political tricksters who seek excuses for flopping and shuffling shuf-fling making true their own predictions I concerning the corrupt use of money and the power of gold and the attitude of a subsidized press I the Democratic party refuses to make silver the sole Issue in twelvemonths twelve-months from now that is the reason we changed front on the silver question two months ago says the Salt Lake Tribune in substance and effect |