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Show Since Senator To w Kit of Montana antagonized silver in congress ho reads the handwriting on tho wall and to avert his doom, if possible, he slights no opportunity to pose as "one of tho most ardent silver men." He took pains to havo that sentenco embodied in an interview with himself in New York and wired all over the country. His record, however, belies his words, "it will not do for three silver-producing states to attempt to dictate tho financial policy of tho whole country," coun-try," tha senator is quoted as saying. Mr. Pow Kit's memory is very bail if he has already forgotten that tho members of at least twenty-live stales voted for free coinage in tho senate and that the same proportion of representatives in the lower house of congress would have acted In thu samo way if left to its own judgment. In trying to extricate himself from a disagreeablo position, into which he deliberately placed himself in opposition to his constituents, con-stituents, tho Montana senator blunders blun-ders more than cer. |