Show how to secure fitch of arizona a ineat western formerly 6 resident of utah is quoted by an exchange as believing that upon questions of finance currency and coinage the divergence of opinion among publicans public ans is eo great that it would be both unjust and inexpedient for the majority in the republican national convention to formulate its views upon them in its platform he therefore wants that body to frame a plank to the whole subject to the people of the congress districts for determination pledging the nomination of this convention not to interpose the executive veto or the power and patronage of the executive office to defeat any legislation with respect to coinage that may be supported by a majority of the he publican representatives and sana tors in congress the enquirer bome time ago pointed out that the west was not strong enough to force upon the country a free coinage candidate aad it is biear that nothing can be gained by a third party movement what then is to be done are we to follow the advice of the more radical silver advocates vo cates and say unless wa as silver men can have our way we we will not play it looks to us as though the western senators who refused to vote for the tariff measure are drifting that way it seems to us that course if per in will eventually prove dasas arous trous send to st louis our delegates instructed to get a free silver the platform and a free silver candidate nominated for president or bolt the convention and then what the vote in the house of ee presenta tives a few daye ago whereby alie senate silver substitute was killed by states shows that if it became necessary for the states t take an independent stand in tho electoral college and no presidential election could be had there the house could still chloee a goldbug candidate condi date we are somewhat favorably inclined toward the plan by mr fitch we believe and have ao stated before that the best ahn will be to fecura the pledge from our presidential candidate and have it understood by the party that no silver legislation is to be vetoed by him then let the silver question be fought out on its merits before the people already we have the upper house in favor of the white metal and once let the people of the country thoroughly understand the silver question and they will send men to the lower house who will solve it the way to reach the people ia through regular channels if thea west gets its back up and goes off on gome independent silver movement we will be ourselves from the great majority of the people of the united states and first we will have to remove the suspicion that we arc not truly loyal when Colora doin 1892 went off on its silver craze and blood to the bridle bits waita got to shooting off hia mouth the pi ess in the batt succeeded in making the people believe that it was a sort of anarchistic archi sentiment that had pervaded the centennial state now it will do u no good to get in that category we must be in sympathetic touch with the rest of the inhabitants of the republic and be able t show to thorn that the curse of low prices on produce and labor has been brought about by tha of silver the task would not ba a great one if properly pursued |