Show REELS WEAK SPEECH president cleveland gives it its as ills his I 1 opinion that the llon lien thomas P V reed ll ii the brainiest brai niest and greatest man inan la a the he republican party we suspect lie Is right that corresponds correspond with our own idea and when president cleveland and the tribune agree it must fix Is things clience when bir delivers deliver a prepared prep areil speech on oil any subject it 11 Is at once a matter of interest Inter Inte cut remt on thursday he addressed the convention that nomina nominator tod him by acclamation for the tooth tenth tune time to congress anti and the mas atas mostly devoted to the ruling question of the campaign As we read it wo we foci feel almost sorry that a man like thomas B reed could say no more than lie he did to bolster olster li up the cause of tile the classes against the masses ile he first pays aMen llon to the way silver allver was waa de ile he declares silver allver was lias not de by stealth that columns of speeches on the sliver silver question are found in the congressional record of that date thit that foreign had nothing to do with it that thai no fraud or wickedness was waa practiced tile the answer to all that is this that the bill purported to be a new arrangement ot of tile tho currency for the better belter adjustment of 0 the huntress business of the treasury department that no matter how long the debates were no matter how much was said or done there was no newspaper lit in tile tho united states that had bad any idea that the intention was to demonetize demon etise silver that nine out ot of every ten ich men irk in congress Co narosa w when hen they voted for the bin bill had no conception whatever that the bill did demonetize demon demone etise tife silver that the then president had no thought of such a thing thine when ho he signed the bill and that it if the object behind it all was not entirely in the of the lie creditor class of this country and beyond the sea then there can be no explanation malle made of 0 why such a bill was introduced and cabled through and there are suspicious C circum it if the business had been innocently done when the effect became apparent w when hen silver began to decline in the markets ot of the world and prices began to decline at the samo same time the men mc n nho had unwittingly unwillingly done the wrong w r ong would have hastened to correct it but we find that from the very first the same men who nho w were ere seeking citing to maintain the supremacy pre inacy of gold were on tile the alej t then and een then began to talk that it was ag impossible by legislative flat to increase tile the value of tile the metal ill 19 per pec cent or 6 5 per cent and the only change in their talk from that day to this has been that now when the legitimate result has hag been attained and sliver silver its as a commodity has lost halt half of its ita value when measured by gold that the proposed legislation to restore it ts la an impossibility and injustice and i the be crime of any attempt to restore it Is insisted on with a vehemence which h ch has increased as sliver silver has haa fallen |