Show TWO SILVER VICTORIES Perhaps silver has no proper place in a municipal campaign and perhaps the result of such a campaign has no influence on the silver sentiment of the country but such is not the opinion of the Denver Evening Post for it says commenting on the results of the local election in Knoxville Tenn and I Indianapolis The victory of the Democrats in the mayoralty contest in Indianapolis where the voters expressed a preference prefer-ence for the Democratic ticket on an outspoken silver platform by some 6000 plurality is a very encouraging sign of the times and augurs well for the Democrats elsewhere contesting In actual election The victory of the Democrats in Knoxville Tenn a heretofore here-tofore strong Republican locality corroborates cor-roborates the testimony of the masS Of the Indianapolis voters of their changed opinion regarding the Chicago platform and points unmistakably that the force of events is strongly if not indeed irresistibly for the cause of silver sil-ver Indianapolis is one of those towns that went madly for McKinley last fall but seems to repent with as much vigor as has Chicago Cincinnati and other cities which have voted since the 1S96 November elpntlnn It lstobi noticed that the pluralities for silver thus recorded are in numerical numer-ical strength as large as those registered regis-tered against it last year but besides this significance they have the added one of much moral effect since they are made in places supposed to be irretrievably ir-retrievably imbued with gold monometallic mono-metallic ideas |