Show TRIUMPHS the washington correspondents of the new york papers are sending home for the lovers of gold they are notifying their papers that the silver croze is not dead but is a growing dangerous uprising of the masses the metropolitan dailies have made a canvass ot the democratic conventions and the states that have yet to elect delegates and have discovered that nearly to thirds of the chicago convention will bo for silver no sooner have they made this announcement than the great lle publican party which through its state conventions has almost unanimously declared tor gold shows signs of weakening and instead of a radical gold plank it is now given out that the party at st louis will straddle the issue in such a manner as to convince the east that it is fur gold and deceive the west into believing it stands for silver they are reading abo signs of the times and are growing alarmed and the advice has been proffered to eschew the word gold the platform it is said will be made to say anything or nothing and john sherman will write the money plank the new york herald bays that after consulting with john sherman the party leaders in washington and elsewhere have it is understood advised that a platform be constructed without the use ortho word gold senator is the most skillful manipulator in word phrasing that the republicans could have selected and if he does not arrange a plank that will squint it will be bis liszt failure in the are of duplicity in his long years of public service sherman well knows the public are eager for and will vote that way if given a fair opportunity he can be depended upon though to deceive the masses and prevent an honest daane not long ago in the senate of the united states he boldly staled that the reason he introduced the sherman law in congress was to divide the silver arces and prevent free coinage which was threatened at the time A statesman who will stoop to such deceptive practices is worthy of writing a straddle platform at st louis calculated to mislead the american Ama rican public the fast growing free silver ment is the term used by the sun in the silver wae this accounts for the great concern of that paper over what democracy will do at chicago for it tears that if one of the great national organizations declares or silver the will win in he beneral election the silver men will be satisfied with either of the conventions declaring for dilver and will bo glad to go before the masses on that issue bui the gold men fear to do so therefore they fight tor the control of both the democratic and republican parties in order to avoid a decision the majority of the citizens of the united states the gold men are thoroughly demoralized the prospects of silver carrying one of the conventions is said to have a favorable effect upon the price of silver bullion to foreshadow the triumph of the cause even in the opinion of the of wall street |