Show I NO HOPE FOR SILVER Hon Thomas G Merrill Thinks Congress Will Not Act I I j DORSEY GOES TO RILL R-ILL EXPERIMENT WITH A DIAMOND DIA-MOND DRILL I Cottonvrood Company to Sleet Today Ajax Assessment Assays on the Hcrschel Sale of Syndicate Shoving on the Grey Eagle Ore anti Bullion Snlc of Board of Trade Stoclc Flour Contract Closed I Hon Thomas G Merrill does not think there will be any silver legislation legis-lation by Congress this winter He said so in an interview at the Knuts ford last night and was very emphatic in the remark It looks as though the silver queStion ques-tion would not be touched he said and that nothing will be done for some time to come I myself believe that the national committees of the two great parties are in the hands of those who are opposed to bimetallism and that when the convention meets this coming year the result will be about as follows Quay Platt and others want to see Levi P Morton nominated for the office of-fice of president He is in complete touch with the gold men and if nominated nomi-nated could if occasion required place twenty millions of dollars in the campaign to elect himself As a result re-sult you will see that he is an ideal candidate for that wing of the partyWhen When the Democratic party comes to place its candidate in the field I think there is going to be a split in the ranks The gold men will favor the nomination of Carlisle in the hope that he can carry a state or two in the south like Kentucky but in the event there should be a large division it would not surprise me in the least to see Grover Cleveland come out in an open letter to the people and advise I them to vote for Levi P Morton and sound money That is the way I have the fight out up In regard to the work which is being be-ing done east of the Missouri river in educating the people on this financial proposition we are disseminating literature lit-erature and are doing the best we can All the leading papers of the east are against us and are complete I ly controlled by the gold monometal lists listsMr Mr Merrill who has been east as far as Chicago in the interest of silver left for his Montana home last even ing at 730 |