Show A DIFFERENT YEAR YEAH there is ie no greater distinctive distinct diB ioE I 1 b between I 1 tween the years than between the positions that politicians assume upon the various issues brought before the pub lie ito this finds notable illustration in the be variegated aspect presented by the record of political leaders on the money standard problem everybody remembers bers how bow the present secretary of the treasury john G carlisle once go eo friendly to silver in his expressions made such an ardent fight against the metal in kentucky and succeeded in defeating d of eating its champion there in the contest for another illustration on the opposite sloe side of the political deooe is that of senator john M thurston Tb urston of nebraska once union pacific solicitor and well known in this city which he has visited frequently on business and pleasure As a nebraska paper the minden Cour courier tee says of him before thurston became senator he dearly loved to talk on bimetallism every occasion to got get his name in the paper WAS associated 1 in a some maber with this favorite theme now he is to in congress and his bla every act Is ia diametrically opposes to true lol bimetallism 12 as by the free coinage advocates and which is not gold with a small amount of subsidiary silver fur for change As MOD men make part parties leps the shifting shit ting of positions with great parties is just as marked to in practice at least and add there to is every prospect that we will soon see so an example of it to in words as well the democratic party bad a free silver plank in its ito platform but the practice of its ito administration has been in decided antagonism to the theory the tb coming chicago convention will decide whether that plank receded from to in part will be again adopted and subsequent events eventa will have bare to determine what force can be given it 16 it if it la is replaced eight years ago the republican platform had bad a silver plank when president Pre aident harrison Harri ion was waa elected and what to is worthy of particular note in this his kaleidoscopic bustness la in we the fact that it was waa written by senator stewart of nevada where when senator stewart i Is now la in the financial councils co anolla of the party will be conclusive ly demonstrated at the st louis convention vent ven tion loD but it to la not the he most likely thing in the he world that anything like the stewart plank which reads readi as follows follow will be adopted then the republican party i to in favor of the use of both gold and silver as mone yand condemns the policy ot of the Demo oratio administration in its itis efforts to demonetize silver this of positions indicates bow na uncertain certain and unsafe political party policy is to build upon as a matter of principle the game of poll tics bics as played today is largely one of exigency in which the doctrine that the end justifies he be means to ls given full play with each different year there ts Is a different phase and no wonder that in the turning of the grist great wheel many people are looking for a good place to alien t when their turn to drop coined the wiser ones are these who do not make political doo doe tribes tri ID ov and theories their chief supports support but build upon a less lees unstable ansta his foun dounda d a tion realizing that the shifting sands sanda of politics politico are like those other sands which when the storms come give no safety to the structure erected thereon but rather prove inove a factor in producing a disastrous wreck rack |