| Show SOME PlRESS OOJIMEATS Congress has done nothing to lower the Pullman rates The congressmen may belong to that section of thepubllc which does not know what the Pullman rates areSt Louis Republican Some Irreverent Michigan man declares that Mr Thurber is afree silver man at heart Not on your life Mr Thurber V has inhaled too much of 111 Clevelands shopworn atmosphere to admit of any thing like that Washington Post V V A ij While the administration I jyas engaged J < 4f r > 1I i f i > I in Its struggle with the measles the free 1 silver Democrats down In Alabama slipped slip-ped in and carried the day for their gubernatorial candidate This will give Secretary Herbert the counterpart of that unpleasant job Secretary Carlisle had down in KentuckyNew York Journal The boys that got there was on the banner of the minute men who marched through the noon heat In Boston yesterday yester-day ThirtyfIve years have changed the lightness of their step and the color of their hair but not the spirit that took them to the front in 61 There is not a company in the militia so well drilled and well dressed that It can touch the hearts of the people as does the sight of these aging volunteersBoston Journal There can be no doubt that the people are thoroughly in earnest In regard to the money question What they want above all things Is a decision one way or the other They are not nearly so much interested In-terested in the success of a certain political po-litical party as they are In knowing whether this country is going to maintain too gold standard or to sink to the silver level The issue Is so sharp and clearly defined that there is no desire in any Quarter for a compromise Silver men and gold men alike want the matter settled set-tled Indianapolis News It is becoming more certain every day that the Chicago convention will be for free silver by a large majority The most conservative estimate gives the free sil verites 446 the sound money element 364 leaving 107 doubtful with the 26 territorial territor-ial delegates credited to the silver side No one can doubt much less deny that the Democratic party Is committed to free silver This fact cannot be laid at the door of either the southern or western contingent of the pacty With the Democracy De-mocracy this delusive financial doctrine is neither a factional nor sectional ques tionNew York Mail and Express |
