| Show ItEPLlJJIGAXS AXD SILVER j It must not be forgotten that in every vote in congress on the question of free I coinage for the last I thirty years a majority of the Democrats voted for this dangerous fallacy The Republicans Republi-cans have alone stood firm and fear less in the defense of the nations honor hon-or and credit They will do so again No one need have any fear about that money plank at St Louis The above is from the New York Mail and Express and when it is remembered re-membered what claims were made last fall In this state from the stump to the effect that there was more hope for silver in the Republican than In the Democratic party It must be rather chilly reading to western Republicans to hear such tafik as this from stalwart Republican organs It may be said however that the Maiband Express since it is i published In New York the very center of the single gold standard influenceit maybe may-be said that it does not represent fairly the ssntlmenits of the Republican party < JJU ifiiitJt < Let us then come further i tat to St Louis the city where the national Republican Re-publican convention is to be held The GlobeDemocrat published in that city says of the late action of the renegade senators who in the interests in-terests of silver voted against taking up the house tariff bill and of the likelihood of their going to the St Louis convention and taking with them a 16 to 1 independent Europebe hanged plank Just at present the < Republican party is not much interested in what Carter Tefiler and the other three Republican renegades think propose If they appear ap-pear at the convention as the regularly chosen representatives of their states they will be received and be accorded all the privileges to which delegates are entitled under the rules governing such bodies although their action of course in bolting the party on a vital question of party policy ought really to place them outside the Republican line audi to exclude them from recognition recogni-tion in distinctly Republican assemblages assem-blages But they will not be in the convention conven-tion many hours before they will find that the free silver polity has no standing in the party The majority of the party was always against free silver but this majority has been growing rapidly in the past year or two especially hi the past few months That seven to one Republican vote in the house of representatives recently against free silver shows how the party stands on that issue in 1896 The silverites will discover that this is the worst year for them to force a fight in the Republican party on the 16 to 1 issue which has come since that question entered politics The Republicans Repub-licans can win easily if every electoral vote of the Rocky Mountain states goes to the Democracy or to the third party In the old states north of Mason and Dixons line and the Ohio and in Minnesota Min-nesota and Iowa there are 227 electoral votes or three more than 224 which make a majority of the electoral college col-lege Every one of these states well go Republican The stronger the antisil ver deliverance is in the Republican platform the larger the Republican majority ma-jority will be in all those states This simply means that the great confidence of the eastern Republicans to carry enough states to win the election elec-tion is such as will lead them to throw overboard their western brethren and all their demands for the recognition of free silver and put their trust for the victory In the eastern states |
