Show LOOKING FORWARD TO 1900 tace change of front of senator morgan tor years one of the leading democrats championing the cause of silver in the united states senate Is forcing the conviction among students of politics that the next democratic national convention will relegate silver at 16 to 1 to an obscure place in its platform and make the issue on anti imperialism or in denunciation of trusts the san francisco chronicle comments on senator morgans opposition to silver as an issue as follows even senator morgan is beginning to see the expediency of abandoning a cause that no longer exists he is now reported as saying that all the democrats need to ask of a candidate for the presidency is whether in the event of congress passing a freo silver act he would allow it to become a law without vit hout challenging it with his veto power this statement la accompanied by an expression of the opinion that from present appearances the desire for free silver legislation will not exert itself with great force in the near future there is no question concerning the causes which has driven senator morgan to this conclusion it is reasonable to assume that he would not have abandoned his position unless compelled to ao so by the logic of circumstances the senator understood the question thoroughly tar better indeed than its choleff exponent in the campaign of and the fact that he la ready to admit that free silver cannot be made the leading issue in the coming campaign is equivalent to a confession that free silver legislation is not required by the country then turning to the single standard advocates in the republican party the chronicle gives them good avice and sound logic in pointing out the mistake that can be made it the lack of interest in the silver question is accepted by them as an expression of the people in favor of the retirement of the green backs and a general currency reform along the lines advocated by bankers and coupon clippers the chronicle says the silly pretense that the existence of a limited greenback currency was responsible for the expulsion of gold will be riddled so effectually when the debate takes place that the advocates of retirement will be shamed into silence it will be made as plain as day that when a tariff system which would have kept us in a perpetual state of bondage to foreigners was in force it was impossible to keep gold but that as soon as the system was revised so as to convert an adverse into a favorable balance gold flowed our way this tact and the uncontestable evidence that the growing production of gold will enable us to keep all our paper at par with ease will result inthe complete of the co called sound money men the most of whom are active propagandists of the cobden theory and desire nothing so much just at present as to obscure the tact i that protection has done all that its advocates in the campaign of 1896 claimed it would republican projectionists protectionists will have no difficulty whatever in demonstrating that tho industrial collapse was wholly due to ahe wilson gorman tariff and eliat it Is preposterous to a degree to assert that it was caused by ack ot confidence in a paper currency which in panic times commanded a premium over gold they will also be able to show that as soon as the menace to our industries was removed by the election of a republican president and congress pledged to restore protective duties there was an immediate recrudescence ot prosperity |