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Show The Slogan of tlic Silver JTlen. New York, February 4. The war of the silver men . in Congress upon the financial policy of the Administration is assuming some features not unlike those of the contest con-test between the Eepublican Senators and the President, and in some respects scarcely less interesting. The silver men, or an element ele-ment among them, view the course of the Administration as an uncompromising war upon silver and as a continuous effort to depreciate de-preciate and discredit its future coinage. They propose to assail the financial policy of the Administration at every point; to place the Secretary of the Treasury upon the defensive, and to demonstrate that improper im-proper means have been taken to defeat the spirit and intention of the enactments of Congress on the subject of coinage and circulation. cir-culation. In this warfare the silver men will be frankly and boldly met. It is a mistake mis-take to suppose that the Treasury Department Depart-ment shrinks from the fullest, inquiry as to' the acts of its officers since the 4th of March. |