Show THE SHERMAN ACT while there is so much discussion in ill the newspapers and on street corners regarding 0 the so called sherman act it would be well to examine into tho the nature of the measure and investigate its source john sherman tile the author of the bill is is a republican leader and a gold bug of the first water lie ile conceived of the measure in a spirit of enmity to silver or bibet alim and introduced it as lie he himself has said in order to delay or defeat the free coina coinage c of silver in in an interview with this same republican statesman published publish cd in tile tho ogden standard in the spring of 1892 lie he was reported as saying sayin 9 that he would oppose the free coin i nh f a t i viiu pass both houses president preside lit I 1 imarri I 1 arri son would veto it so much for the parentage of the sherman act any bill conceived in such a spirit of at animosity towards th alie e white metal and brought 1 I forth for the express purpose of defeating 0 free coinage 0 can scarcely be tho the law for silver men to favor or for or silver mines to flourish llo under when lilien this measure ine sure was voted upon in congress it was passed by a strict party vote every democrat in the house and senate opposing it and every republican L in the house and senate favoring it even republicans who were friendly to silver voted with their party in order to save their president from vict vetoing a free coinage bill not only did every democratic congressman and senator oppose the ho sherman act when it came before them for a vote but in the democratic national convention at chicago the law was bitterly denounced and the author of it severely J scored the national platform of democracy denounced that cowardly ina makeshift ki known iown as the sherman law mid and declared in favor of bi then liow how can call democrats be expected to favor a law they opposed in its passage and which they know to be fatal to the cause 0 orbi f bi how can a president who was elected on a platform denouncing the sherman law as a cowardly makeshift do other than ask for its repeal have democrats democrat ts who criticize the course tak taken cen by cleveland studied the question carefully |