Show not Mone the press presa of the state is not really dealing fairly with the st louis platform on the financial question they say that it is for and that wm mckinley is a confirmed gold standa standard rd advocate nothing can be gained by such misrepresentation I 1 the st louis platform is for bimetallism stud and it favors free coinage of silver if it can be secured by international agreement mr mckinless McKin levs record shows him to be an ardent bimetallist metal list all his speeches in congress on the financial issue have been for bimetallism once or twice he led the silver men in debate and he be voted with them on nearly all issues his record made de the bankers and fearful of his nomination and they fought him before the st louis convention but found his defeat impossible the enquirer is not advocating mr mckinless McKin leys election but we do believe iu in fairness this way of misstating stat ingan an opponents position can gain no friends for silver the enquirer has been the subject of attack by nearly every newspaper of the state and it has been called a gold bug paper because it can not support win J bryan on the communistic chicago platform all of the readers tf of the enquirer know such attacks are false for this paper has always been for arc free e coinage of silver and is so eo now there are a great many free coinage who cannot and will not support mr bryhn it is unfair to class them as gold bugs because of their stand some are supporting mr mckinley and they are still good silver men the chicago inter ocean says ys of them the main point of difference between the silver men who support mckinley and those silver men who say they will support bryan is as to the necessity for international agreement as a preliminary to free frea coinage cot coin naze aee the hilyer men who support mckinley admit that the independent action of the united states slates in adopting tree free coinage would not secure the results they hope for therefore they favor an earnest effort to secure action in favor of bimetallism or the double standard by international pati nal agreement senator teller and his friends admit that this would be etter better bi than independent ln le pendent petion and that international I 1 agreement should je be secured they figue ague that the coa cent of england to sum anea an a agreement breem nt cannot be obtained therefore the united S states tates ought to take the rials riak of I 1 fid epen amt action n in the ho hope pe that all the otter nations except england would come to her der assistance la in other worday they the v base their hope their ultimate tims te boc bobie 0 of success 02 international independent of eng Eo gaDd land greeene vree gree ment ent th they ey admit that to make tree free co inage coinage the success that they desire there mastbe must be ina in a measure at least international ter national action they have nut not made mades eo ogreata great a departure depar tuie from their friends in the tha party as would seem aa it a ft first rt V glance 1 I |