The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1894-08-16
What a Kansas City Paper
Says About 1t.
FREE COINAGE is BOUND TO WIN
The Kansas City journal Advises
Everybody to Get Into the Little
Red Wagon of Bi-NIetallism
While There is Yet Time
ALI Parties Will BE For
1t in 1S96-Are Grad
ually Coming to 1t.

the country is crysta]izing, the following
article from the Kansas City journal is
copied: "=.
| There promises to be but one compe-
tition among politicians and political
parties in the very near future, and that
is as to who shall get first and farthest
on the silver platform. That anything
like gold standard will receive support
from any quarter only man with one
entrail can imagine for moment
The only trouble this year is that some
editors thus equipped may hurt their
party in localities. We're it not, for
example, that the republican party of
Kansas has placed SO strong a ticket on
such pronounced free coinage platform,
that sort Of people might do the harm.
1t one sort of bushwhacking does not
stop, the Journal, in the interest of
republicanism, will have to use little
discipline. A word even to the foolish,
let alone the wise, ought to be sufficient.
But the tariff quarrel with Cleveland
and the senate still further breaks the
power OF Wall street for it is all coal
trust at the bottom), and as that power
is broken free coinage grows. The south
will be as solid for silver as it has been
on other questions, because it's record is
already made. Oates, down in Alabama,
is trying to convince the voters that
even Cleveland is as good silver man
as anybody.
There is one fact that shallow people
seem to act on: That whatever the
opposite party favors they should oppose.
Because the populists are, with an over
whelming majority Of the American
people, in favor of free silver. therefore
it should be opposed-is about the size
of certain newspaper brains that we
know of and about the measure of their
craftsmanship. We're any party respon-
slble for their intolerance, bigotry and
narrowness it would be annihilated.
The republican party has taken the
lead in the new silver movement, as its
Pennsylvania, Ohio, California and Kan
sas platforms show, and in 1896 there
will be national platform unanimously
adopted for silver restoration and the
free coinage Of the product Of the Ameri-
can mines es-which is free coinage.
That this must be SO, look at the
electoral college will disclose. The south
and west are overwhelmingly for silver.
it's restoration as money metal, its
equality with gold at the mints and as a
legal tender. There are 444 votes in the
electoral college now. Utah is added
and SO will New Mexico and Arizona be
states. But as now 223 votes elect,
The southern states and the other states
west OF the Mississippi cast 26l votes in
the next electoral college, and with the
new states 27O-and with the new states
227 elects. Or, on the division of the
silver question, the states south already
committed to free coinage and the states
west of the Mississippi where seven
tenths OF the people are for the restora-
tlon OF silver as money, have 43 more
votes than are necessary to elect.
That fact settles the question. No
party can afford to either oppose or
ignore, or straddle or evade the SILVER
issue, and the man or newspaper IN this
silver country that gets in the way of the
procession will be mere grease spot
when it has passed along. Pennsylvania,
Indiana, Illinois, even Ohio, are as sure
Tor free silver as is Missouri or Kansas.
The Journal has been sound and pro-
phetlc on this question and warned these
hot headed people to get into the red
wagon while there was room, and they
bad better get on now and quit biting
themselves these dog g-days because they
can't bite anybody else. AS the old
squire said: "We are talking, in sense,
periodically, but those we are talking
at will understand They are treading
On very dangerous ground and if their
Trends don't sit down on their suicidal
course the Journal will have to attend
TO that duty, as it has in many other
cases.
Silver--free silver-has come to stay.
The issue is stronger than all the news
papers, stronger than all the parties, and
will occupy the white house and both
ends OF the capitol March 4, 1897. In
Ill kindness and in all earnestness we
oeg everybody to fee from the wrath to
,ome.