Show BY INSTINCT it has often been said that the damu cratic party were ra from away r back aenry clay in one of his great speeches on the compromise compromiso question in asking the democrats to meet alio wings half way said it was much castor for them to meet tho halfway than for tho whigs to meet tho demo crote bialt way as the democrats had a acord of jumping on all sides of nil questions and before they got through would invariably straddle alio aholo matter what was true in elioso earlier days is also true of first we find the chicago platform so arr rayed that it stood for bimetallism in the west and south and K in alie east wo find secretary carlisle making silver speeches in the south and elected to the south on eliat issue and in less than six months wo cud him on the other sido of the question es yc Q cause of gold and gold alone then wo find eliat democratic voorhees senator from indiana a strong free coinage advocate and elected on eliat iesue malting silver speeches in the present congress even went eo far na to mako a speech before the senate ivanco committee saying that no bill could bo reported by eliat committee unless it was for free coinage now mark alie straddle callielo Carl ielo and cleveland held a meeting and abo next day senator voorhees bees presented a bill to repeal the sherman law pitr a clause that wo the people believe in silver as money etc if the rest of the democratic congressmen and senators belong to the straddling school then indeed wo pity alio people of the united states the republican party lias its principles plea and when elected carry them out this has been alio policy of this government for thirty years under jle publican administrations the people always know how a republican con vt always true to its pledge hc people wanted a change they wanted a tion and they got it THE ROAD published in denver is doing yoman for the causo of silver each issue has cartoons on this subject in the last issue is ono in which cleveland and bland are playing a game of chess in which bland to be alie winner cleveland is backed in this by sherman while bland is being patted on the back by senator stewart and uncle sam another cartoon which foretells the auturo futuro of many a congressman who will vote against aco coinage shows alio congressman at home with hia constituents trying to explain why ho voted against alie people but ho receives the cold shoulder from all excepting the postmaster appointment alie congressman secured wo liopo the road will keep up its good work MR JACQUES INAUDI a phenomena phe nomina french mathematician is said to bo able to perform the addition of six lines of six figures a sum in subtraction beginning with and descending to units tho multiplication of six figures by six figures tho division of six figures by five figures and the extraction of the square and cube roots of five figures all at once and repeat from beginning to end without looking at them all the figures on alie blackboard depre benting these involved sums the present administration would find in M inaudi a treasure in that his ability might help them to figure out a solution of democratic tariff for revenue ideas WAS written to chief paul of alio salt lake police threatening dire consequences if another workingman wor were arrested for vagrancy tho exercise of a little discretion at the ballot box last november by tho might have avoided tho necessity of vagrancy in their ranks BASK aono democratic was the remark of a gentleman on hearing of a failure utah has proven to be comparatively quite undemocratic during the financial stringency LEASE has been lecturing to the peoples party in kew york the dear girl should swap caloca with ex sena tor ingalls |