Show THE COUNTRY frederick R coudert one of the new who went to chicago ex to turn the silver men into bowline men tells hie experience and recounts his observation in the following answer to a dispatch to the new york commercial advertiser one of the leading gold organs of that citti when a prairie is on fire it is hard to tell just where the flames will atop the same ie true of the silver craze abo eil ventes uial defeat mckinley oven in the east I 1 do not anticipate such a consummation on the contrary I 1 that mckinley will carry now york by a fair sized majority it alie democrats adopt a free silver platform but the dilver craze is eo that you cannot alcure on with any degree of certainty it has adept through the west and is now making alarming progress in the baet it is a nice question as to whether or not the losses on the democratic ticket by reason of the silver plank will not be offset by defections from the republican ranks quite a cumbe numbe of democrats 1 will vote with the republicans and other democrats will not vote at all next november ou the other hand the republicans will lose many votes by virtue of their gold plank let in conclusion that the silver people by means of the prestige of the great democratic party as well as its grand organization iza tion may carry new york state after all stranger things than that have happened the silver craze is taking the form of a great popular movement and no rian can predict for a certainty the result of the november election |