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Show THE COMING TEST. Next year will apply a test to the free silver men euch as they have never yet been subjected to. There are now hundreds of free coinage men in the lend of the hostB. who, during the last national campaign, had no identity on that subject outside of and away from the platforms of the two parties which led in the campaign. Mr, Dan Voor bees, John C. Crisp, DaviJ Bennett 'Hill and many others were rated free coinage men, but Mr. Cleveland had as much claim to be so rated as they had. lie ran on the stradliug p'atiorai and they all supported him. If free coinage men, they had surely forgotten Mr. Clevelat.d's letter titer hie Oret election and before he was inaugurated. inaugu-rated. In '96 this will not go. An explicit declaration will be made in the platform and free coinage men will be asked for explicit approval or explicit ex-plicit dissent. The half way declaration declara-tion will not hold positive men any longer. After the next campaign it will not be necessary tor Mr. Voor-bees Voor-bees or Mr. Crisp to make declarations or to write letters eo that the people may understand what their rer' senti ments on remonetization are. Nett year such free coinage men, repnblicans, as Senators Teller and Wolcott will be on the etuinp as ante-eonvention ante-eonvention free coinage men, and if the republican national convention nominates such a "free coinage" man aa John Sherman, Bill McKinley, or Allison, they will be found supporting , the free coinage democratic candidate. y If not this, they will no longer speak with authority to the free silver west on any subject. The test next year will fix men definitely on this questior. The mere lip business will be over i with, and men only whose hearts are in the great enterprise will be called the friends of silver after November '96, nor much after the national republican convention adjourns. We j believe Mr. Teller is an ardent fret silver man, but he is bo sleek, so tuave ' and quiescent that we have always felt just a little uneasy and a little nervous about seeing a conjpetent test applied, and as for Mr. Ed. "Wolcott we have as yet to see a declaration from him on the remonetization of silver, which entirely en-tirely eatisfies us. We hay e men, also, here in Utah, in both parties we fear, who are just as cloudy and as uncertain uncer-tain on this subject. However, there are not many, but there are some, and they may rest assured that the tests applied here will be as severe as those which will settle and fix the silver status of Messrs. Teller and Wolcott in Colorado next summer. There must be no more skulking, no more dodging, no more doubt. The battle for the very life's blood of the west, for the money of the poor, for the chance of the industrious workero of the whole country, is on, will be on then, and the men who are to receive the loyal support or these poor and working men must show up in a better way than they have erer yet done. They must be real down, unequivocal free silver men, resumptiomats without with-out doubt or the shadow of uncertainty. uncer-tainty. We think we can already promise a straight democratic declaration declar-ation in the national platform of the democratic party. If it contains that, ! then not all the plutocrats on earth can prevent the triumphant election of the candidates upon it. If it does not and straddles or is unfrank and equivocal equivo-cal it will be beaten beyond the shad ow of a doubt, and we do not hesitate to say that it ought to be so beaten. The time for trifling has past. The democrats of '96 must be silver democrats demo-crats as their forefathers were. |