Show THE INSOLENTS On Friday morning we copied from a recent letter written by lion Charles A Towne whereIn ho stated his position posi-tion on the silver question In almost I I the exact words that The Tribune has stated its position over and over that the want of four years ago has been supplied from an unexpected source and that the silver question is not this year Jinporlant Wu asked our morning morn-ing contemporary if that made Mr Towne a traitor 1 winces and snarls under the question I declares that he Is not n trailer because he still believes I in remote blmclalium and he Indorses all the catchwords which the Democratic Demo-cratic party has conjured up to light this coming campaign on So it seems that a man or a newspaper ip ist be a traitor unless It Indorses every vagary that every hungry Democrat who wauls an ofllce from Mr Bryan down puts out as a campaign slogan against the Republican party That exactly expresses ex-presses the caliber of our contemporary contempo-rary Gen Warner who has been a Democrat all his life and who did more work for the silver cause than any olh cr man In the United States was an able advocate or silver and the necessity neces-sity of Its rcmoncllzalion ten years be fore Mr Bryan ever thought of It says it Is utter foolishness to pursue the II I cause lion now Joe Sibley is another an-other man who taught tho A 1 Ca of the silver bullcf to W J Bryan He says that what was a good argument four years ago for silver Is ridiculous now Senators Jones and Stewart of Nevada the former of whom may be called the father of the silver cause have both quit In short ever every man has ceased discussing that question except ex-cept some Democrats and Popullsls who want to use It in the hope that some men who are not posted will believe be-lieve that If they had the chance they would do somelhlng to help the cause and their t foul newspapers delight in rolling the epithets of trailer and sold out under their longues toward all who see the situation as It Is and how idle it Is at present lo press that subject any further They do It knowing know-ing that rlcht here in Utah the men who own the silver mines have ceased to talk about It and that not 20 could be raised from the whole batch to agitate agi-tate the question any further And the meanest feature of all Is that not one of theo scrubs was ever n silver man until the silver plank was put in the platform foul years ago and they would coaso lo be silver men in twenty minutes 1C the plank should happen lobe lo-be left out of the platform this year That Is they arc narrow dishonest partisans and the principle they talk about and prato about Is no deeper than the command of the party through tIme p lao 1 which they arc bound to obey no matter where It leads I |