Show DR DEPEW HEARD FROM This I think is the question of the day I have for a long time wanted to set myself right on it The theory of free silver and the claims that are made for it are fascinating I find that not only the Ignorant and unthinking who depend up on the instruction of the stump speaker to turn their vote but also the better class who read and think for themselves are being deluded with this creed I have tried to reason out the fallacy of the whole idea and I have reduced it down to this standard In brief tho belief of the western farmer and other advocates of silver is this He believes that with free coinage of silver he could sell his wheat for double what It now brings There Is another thing I see with this free silver movement that has done much to give it the impetus it has secured In the west there is a deepseated and almost al-most venomous desire on the part of merchants mechanics and farmers to show their disapproval of the present national na-tional administration Silver will be a big factor before the next election but it will hardly change a vote on election day The next national Democratic convention will adopt a platform that is overloaded with free silver promises The south will demand de-mand this and will secure It The Republican Repub-lican national platform will be stuffed full of bimetallism Ideas Neither platform I plat-form is going to figure at all in the next I election Chicago TimesHerald |