Show MILLS VEST AXD SILVER It is comical to read the diatribe of the Tribune against Roger Q Mills because he has changed his posiydn somewhat on the silver question Mills does not endorse the independent free coinage movement because he thinks the United States cannot safely adopt the ratio of 16 to 1 alone lie woud be glad if the great commfr ill rations ra-tions would agree either at the ratio of 15 to 1 or of 16 to 1 to ad > pt be l > metalhsm but thinks this cannot be done by one nation alone For this the Tribune berates the Senator and says he will sink down to the obscurity in which he would have lived had he been a resident of a northern instead of a southern state The fun of it is that Mills position is that of all the prominent Republicans Republi-cans of the presnt time who favor bimetallism bi-metallism at all The Tribune pitches into Mills because he is a Democrat but says nothing of Harrison Sherman Sher-man McKinley Allison Reed and a host of other Republicans who go no further than Mills on the same question ques-tion Why not devote some paragraphs to them and show how idiotically basely recreant they and their party have been to the cause of silver in harmony with an inadvertent bit of truth uttered by the Tribune in 1694 While touching on this question we would like to know why it is that Republican Re-publican papers which printed the false report that Senator Vest had gone back on free silver coinage do not publish his emphatic denial of the story and his positive announcement announce-ment that he is for the free and I unlimited un-limited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 by the United States alone if international agreement cannot be had immediately In spite of the fact that a few prominent Democrats have planned themselves on the international interna-tional agreement contingency the great body of the Democratic party are for immediate bimetallic free coinage And it is as certain as that the sun shines that there is no hope for silver In the Republican party |