Show SOME EDITORIAL COMMCSTs It was conceded on nearly every side three months ago tnat the Republicans had a waikover Now Democratic hope Is high and the enemy is aiarmed Bets are offered that McKInley men cannot name nine states in the Union that their candidate will carry What has produced this wonderful change all at once The answer is easythe Democratic platform and the Democratic nominations at ChI cago Would a platform such as was thought possible tnree months ago when the Democracy was despondent have produced pro-duced these startling changes Houston Texas Post The establishment of a permanent arbitration ar-bitration commission for the settlement of International disputes should be one of the trjumphs of the nineteenth century I cen-tury which has done so much for peace humanity and civilization The century could not more fitly round out its glorious mission than by making a repetition of the Venezuelan message Impossible New York World Colonel Watterson speakIng from Switzerland announces definitely that there must be no compromise with dishonor dis-honor This appears to be taO Information Informa-tion we have all been waiting for Detroit De-troit Tribune When silver Is coined free In America England will have to pay instead of 63 cents an ounce 123 an ounce and instead In-stead of having that silver go to India and China and Japan to purchase wheat and cotton for the EnKiish market it will go into American channels of business busi-ness having been coined In American mints and American wheat and cqtton will go to England and be sold for Eng lish gold Cleveland Plain Dealer John Sherman has been called upon to aSI tfnb place a construction on the St Louis I platform and he has accommodated the McKInley managers by giving one of his I regulation I lookinpbothways opinions New York oou flbothWayS II I I It will be seen that Mr Bryan repudiates repudi-ates all connection and sympathy with the purposes of the A P A Like Governor Gov-ernor McKInley he is a Protestant church member both being connected I with the Presbyterian church We see I I no symptom of intolerance in either of them and any attempt to introduce religious re-ligious prejudice Into the campaign will I I fail It seems puerile indeed to make such an attempt in the face of the higher and more dignified Issues that so seriously I serious-ly invoke the attention of the country Boston Herald |