| Show THE republican convention tomorrow june 16 the st louis louie convention opens for the consideration of questions que etione of vast moment to this able nation the eyes of the whole people anu and of very many beyond the sea are upon that convention as aa they will be also upon the one that meets meeta in chicago three weeks later were the chief interest Inte reet centered in the idal individuality vi of the candidates to be nominated neither the almost certainty of who will be named as the head of the st 81 louis ticket nor the uncertainty as aa to whom the chicago convention will name dames would attract so BO much attention to those these political gatherings an to ii now felt in them the nation is ia looking to them as aa in a crisis not lose leia trying than that ol of 1860 the flu financial cial lite life of the nation Is ie at stake and whether its die shall be oad cart upon the adoption of a free silver platform by one and a sound gound money or gold policy by the other convention Is IB properly regarded an aa a question tion of vital moment there to la no doubt of the fact that the st louis convention la Is against free silver and there to la bood reason to believe that the chicago convention will favor the white metal but there Is yet no do definite assurance that the be st bt louis louie meeting will place itself on OD record as aa wholly in favor of the gold standard atan dard there are the gold men of 0 the east the silver men of the west there are also the men of the central portion of the count country rys who hold bold the balance of power who are not fully decided in favor of either view but have bob such divisions among as to leau lead to a de sire to barmantse barmon tse the two extreme factions on OD a conciliatory baste basic it it Is just possible that the latter will be able to io control action so eo that the outcome will be a declaration that la IN neither tor or nor against silver under these circumstances the dele gates from the ibe free silver states are in a quandary as aa to what w bat policy to pursue no doubt sime of them would bolt the SL bouts louts convention if a straight auti silver liver plank should be adopted when they would remain is ifs if a conservative reit ree glutton were agreed upon and perhaps some or of them would remain even if the te stiver silver cause were stricken down because they would not know whets where to go 0 and be better off in political policy all 11 things considered hence all 0 of them are more or less sorely puzzled in the outlook that la is set forth there are many who take the view MST il if the republican convention should adopt an anti silver plank and tahe democratic Bemo cratic convention should do otherwise then the western states would go over in a body to te the nominee dominee of the latter party and the combination with the south and west would elect another democratic giov pledged to the free coinage of silver liver BB an the only oo 00 jy solution of the financial problem Thi slathe view that to la largely held in the west on the other band there is presented in opposition to thle this the claim that the he country la is so eo disaffected with the prevent present administration that no do matter what platform either or both conventions adopt the mass maea of voters have determined upon having a in n the east particularly the position la in taken that while perhaps a score ot of electoral votes in the west would be lost by utah idaho nevada wyoming and colorado going tor for the free silver ilver candidate this lose would be more man onset offset by the gain that would come from the eastern states which have no use uee for a free silver ilver policy Cali california fornis washington and oregon are not looked upon as ae states batee that would go to free silver merely upon that issue alone thimas a brief statement of the situation as ad it la Is looked at from different lerent dif elder and it goes to show the be character of the dilemma in which the western members of the st louis louie bud and themselves them Belvea antho on the eve of its corn com meno ement their notion action in the premises premi iee is looked for with more than interest late red there la in much ot of anxiety about it in many quartee qu artere artem possibly they may decide that the time for heroic action has haa come and that they should break loose irom all political ties tie in behalf of the free coinage of silver allver it way may be also alao that they will conclude the wiser course to be t to baay the convention through await the action of the chicago convention belore before taking any decided stand or may even conclude that the severance evera uce of party ties flea to la not yet a justifiable expedient in the face of the political prospect in the country at large in either event it la Is to be hoped that for the credit of the state no conclusion la Is reached in haste or in anger by its ita political representatives either of a party or 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