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Show THE DEVIL AS MONK. We commend the subjoined confession confes-sion of the democratic Chicago Herald to the republican traders who believe they made a good dicker when they surrendered the Election bill in exchange ex-change for a free coinage bill, not soon to be. As a confession is said to be good for the soul, we hope the good souls will relish the excerpt. The situation, wnlch comes as a surprise up n a majority of the republicans, may toe explained briefly by laying that the paramount para-mount olijuct on the democratic side Is the defeat of the election trill. This object has been accomplished, as the most radical supporters sup-porters of the bill Kill admit. As a matter of (rood faith, and to some extent as a matter of policy, the d'.'mocratlo tenutors will stand together In support of a tree coinage substitute substi-tute for the Sherman financial bill, and such a substitute will prorably pass the senate by a majority of twelve or fifteen. It is not ti ba inferred, however, that the democrats would be united upon so dangerous an1 mischievous a measure if they believed there was any (treat danger of Its bscomlns; a law. There ts a strong probability that It will be defeated In the house, and even If It shon 11 pass that body It could not command the ttrengtb necessary nec-essary to pass It over the vets whit b would surely follow. In brief, the democrats were willing to pledge anything, from their chance for their salvation to free silver, if the republicans would only let go of the dreadful election bill dreadful to them because it admitted of a peep into their election methods in the south with the mental reservation that as soon as their neck was safely out of the halter they would figuratively see the republicans in Halifax. It'i the old story: When the devil was sick. The devil a monk would be; When the devil got well, The devil a monk was he. |