Show IS FREE SILVER AN ISSUE Wo fear that our morning contom pnrary will have to put down the New York Journal as another traitor It distinctly declares that Free silver Is out of politics Further it says that the proposition ToE free silver does not rest upon any such flimsy basis as the probability of continued Republican control of tho Senate It rests upon tho solid foundation of an Immense majority of Congressional constituencies constituen-cies hostile to free silver whatever the politics of the men they choose to represent rep-resent them It Is Impossible to figure out any sort of comblnalon by which a majority for a free coinage bill could he secured In any sort Congress that could possibly be assembled Such a bill could not pass a Congress composed com-posed entirely ofDemocrats What does our neighbor think of that Traitors seem to be more plenty than blackberries Then the Journal gives a list oJ the States and the electoral votes of each with those that In the Kansas City convention In committee voted for and against free silver and Dhows that the States for free silver represent but 312 delegates voles with at present 66 Democratic members of Congress while against It were States r with 576 delegates votes and which States now have In Congress 106 members mem-bers That too Included for free silver sil-ver Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Hamp-shire and Vermont which arc rock ribbed Republican States The Journal concludes that the silver question for this campaign Is purely academic There Is much more of the same kind of reasoning which proves two things First that In the estimation of the Journal silver has ceased to be an issue Is-sue and second that the Journal Is Just now making a heroic struggle to turn aside the tide which Is setting against Mr Bryan Thus we have the marvelous spectacle of seeing Mr Bryans chief organ In the East shriekIng shriek-Ing that silver is nOt an Issue that a solid Democratic Congress would not pass a free silver bill even If Sir Bryan were President and urged it while there are restern Journals that declare that men who in thc West talk of silver as Mr Bryans organ In New York does Tire traitors Queer Is it not |