Show AN EASTERN VIEW the views of agrest majority of the people itt in this part of the country regarding le the fin financial lancial question are somewhat at variance with those of the eastern sect section lon as Is well known but since the late elections we have had some rome displays of feeling regarding the matter which show either that the two elements are further apart than ever or getting closer together than they have been for a long time tim it Is really a difficult matter to say exactly which just now that the contest went largely in favor of the eastern idea even in some of the previous strong holds of the other element Is a recorded fact and the press of the bast of both political parties Is well nigh unanimous in exhibitions of great joy that this Is the case the new york world which may properly be called the leading democratic paper of the country expresses its he satisfaction over the outcome in a thoroughly undisguised manner mian nef it thinks that no political event in years perhaps not even the election of ler ky is more important than the wiping out of the free silver majority in the senate and the substitution of an al bosit two thirds majority for sound money it then goes on to show that ell all the unsound financial legislation of recent years originated in the senate and concludes that all the business and industrial cl classes ass indeed everybody can now feel that free silver Is dead even in the utterly improbable probable event of a free silver majority tn it the loiuse and a free silver president in 1900 the importance of established fact cannot be overestimated tt it to la eagal to a victory in a presidential election s majority was go 0 o small a change of 25 votes distributed in the five closest would have defeated him nd the vote for bryan was so large six and a half millions that the election of 1896 waa not decisive now however it seems impossible to keep up the free silver agitation the revolution in the senate has completely collapsed ft out of this state of aff lairs the world prefigures pre figures a business boom meaning prosperity based upon assured stability and holds that with free silver dead and out of the way the he democrats have now a chance to get gel on the right side of some other grecial grea t issue and win in 1900 what such issue may be is not suggested without opposing or endorsing our gotham co tempo views we can all tafford afford to hope for the conditions to arrive which it so confidently predicts as a result of the carites t through which the country has passed none of us has had too much prosperity of liate late years land and an advance in that direction would not be resisted by even those who are not willing to believe it can come as the result of such causes |