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Show Tim COQTJETTI8H HILL, A Washington correspouilent writes: Now that HlLL thinks that lio has effectually squelched Mr. Cleveland as a presidential candidate, tho New Y uk senator is not anxious to have a free coinage of .silver bill sent over to the senate, as it might embarrass him in his own candidacy. Heretofore 1 s purpose in coquetting with the free 1- iver men was not only to get their support, but to bring tho question ti the front with the view of killing off Mr. Cleveland as a presidential ean-d ean-d date, becauso every one of the safe democratic states has declared in favor Of tho free coinage of silver. But, with Cleveland out of the way, Mr. Hill fees that his vote for the free coinage of silver would greatly injure hiin in New York and Indiana, but more particularly par-ticularly in his own state, and he wants to avoid the necessity of declaring him-Belf him-Belf definitely one way or the other. |