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Show H tiii: mm i it couinii rust. H TilKpiHageor the alleer bill In the B Henato of Ihe United Htstet wu a Hfl Kreat aurprUeto thecountry. 'Iheob HB Ject of lu I aiiifo Juat now In evidently HH political, lloth partita fear Hie tile er HHj Lllland lUtflecIa on tho ptrildeutlal HHj election. That there are ilncere HHJ silver men lu both parties must be H conceded. That each I ally contains H men vehemently oppoeej to the fr.e L colnageniovcmeut cannot bo dliruted. j Hut what dota tho country want? It H mutt lie clear to every unbiased mind H that haiKtren attention to both tides H of the matter.that whtlo the Weet and H Bouth demand an Immediate H rtturn to the t bmrtall tm of H Ihe early daya the n- Q public, the l.aat, which haa the vast snajorlty of voter, I uot conveited to the weitern Idea, but Tlewa free coin P age at threatening financial disaster 1 Instead of protnlaliiir, tho good tlilnjc which tho silver men predict (or Its H aJepllon. Whatever the pollllcans of either H parly may claim to Ihe contrary, H neither Harrison nor Clevelaud favors H the policy-embodied lu the bill that B haisnuatipectedly pined tin Henate. HBVJ They each have too broad a coiupre H henilon of Ihe divided feeling of the H ubllc, and au understanding of the l I reponderance of popular etntlment H azalnst frte silver, to ojenly espouse H Its cauie. And It seems to ua that X while freo silver ltepubll:aiis and B Democrats should be uricent In ress H Infe their claims uitn Coucresi and H the coualry, they tlioull not close H thrlr eyea to the fact nf the Katlsrii H sentiment, nor to thedlrtlcultlus which H confront both of Ihe candidates for the H leucy. H It Is probable, however, that the ill- mK ver bill will b to manipulated by Us H opjionenlsof both partita In the llousr, M that It will uot reach's vote on Us merits Hj butiiretheijreat political ronleai which H Is tu culminate In November. This Ej will mllevejthe present Administration H Kteatly, and do no Utlnigo to the op. M posing art). |
