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Show It was a signal victory that the west won in Denver yesterday in the elee-i elee-i tiou of llou. K. 1'. Kerry as permanent : chairman of the Trans-Mississippi con-I con-I gress. The enemies of silver exerted themselves to elect one of their own number to the position and the fight was made over that issue. Kx govenor Anthony of Kansas whom Mr. Terry defeated is a bitter opponent of silver. In an interview hincohis arrival in Denver Den-ver he expressed himself a follows: "You ask me if I am in favor of free coinage of silver. Kmphatieallv uo, unless a dollars worth of (silver fs put into a dollar. Like tvery other product of man's labor, silvet possesses au intrinsic in-trinsic and an acquired market value. Unless you make tnree peeks of corn pass for a bushel and two feet for a yard, no one has a light to give 70 cents' worth of silver a value of $1. That is the way I staud upon the silver juesiioi)." The west may well congratulate it-elf it-elf upon accomplishing the defeat of a man who holds such views. These men who waut to increase the size of the bushel must all be sent to the rear. Four pecks of wheal, still constitute a bushel and .'I71.L'.") grains of silver still constitute a dollar, and an iucrease in the weight of the coin would be equivalent equiv-alent to spreading out the bushel until it would hold five or six pecks. |