Show TRUTH NEVER DIES THAT IS WHY THE SILVER CAUSE WONT DOWN tile contest now nor on oil lit in the hilling Iq district A IL 1 clr aar of if tho strength of tile patriotic senti for LI ex congressman edward lane of montgomery county ill has been nominated for congress by tho the democrats of tile the eighteenth district on the ballot lano lane is a red hot free silver man mail tho the platform adopted Is in perfect harmony with ills his views without a dissenting voice the convention declared for tile the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the operation cooperation co of any other nation friends of the administration had been working throughout the district to secure delegates who would favor the reaffirmation of the plank of 1892 but when the free silver resolution wa was 1 is offered today there was not a voice against it tho the got gold press of tho the country emulating the loy boy whistling in tile the graveyard is proclaiming in large type that the silver crave crape is dead well if ic is lead dead wily why can the corpse not bo be permitted to rest in peace dut but fortunately for tile the country tile tho issue of restoring silver which is never met save ly by tho the application to it of sneering epithets and feeble attempts at wit is not lead dead and never will be until tho the issue is settled in accordance with tile tho principles ot at eternal justice tills this can only be lone done by a perfect re establishment of the mone monetary tary system that without a shadow of in an excuse was changed in 1873 so far as the silver cause has lost losic ground at all during tile the last two years it has been simply owing to the fact that mr air cleveland has been president of the united states combining an arrogant dictatorial disposition with an unyielding hostility to silver tho the whole power of ills his administration has been brought to bear to force a change in the attitude of the democratic party upon the question acting in conjunction with what Is i commonly termed the money power it has of course had its effect nothing but administration pressure made the repeal of the sherman law possible only a few lays days before tho the repeal senator german frankly admitted in ili open senate that up to a very recent date the friends of repeal had not dared to close the debate because they were in a minority and would have suffered defeat if the question had como come to a vote the administration hall had not made a sufficient clent number of converts but the song of tho the cuel cuckoo coo began to lie be heard and finally the law was repealed since then the cuckoo has sung in almost every democratic state convention packed as it has been with federal officeholders office holders but the administration can not 1 last ast forever and tho the political cuckoo can call se scarcely arcely outlive the administration which gave him birth tile the silver oliver question involves the same principles that it always lins has it is just tile the same now as it was in ili 1890 when democrats out of about in the house of representatives and every democratic senator but four voted for tile the free coinage of silver and when a bill of that character passed the senate by 17 majority after a most thorough and exhaustive discussion the dispatches given above show that there la Is not only a strong leaven of sliver silver sentiment in the ranks of the ohio democracy but that it is active earnest anti and aggressive in illinois it is undeniably tho the dominant power in the ranks of the democracy and tile the adoption of a free silver resolution by the eighteenth district convention without a single dissenting vote is in ili the highest degree significant there la Is in fact a vast amount of sli in all parties and in all states and those who are now so vociferously shouting it Is dead it is dead will ere cre long be brought face to face with the fact that like the corpse it at fin fegans W wake ake it is taking a very pronounced part in ili tile the political fight exchange |