Arizona republican., 1895-08-07

gan for the discussion of the financial question. As humorous stump speak CT MT. Horr has few equals, but the currency question is not problem that can be settled by joke or humorous figure of speech. Mir. Harvey is plausible writer, a skillful dealer in half truths, and, so far as the study of the subject is concerned, must be many times the superior of his opponent in range and variety of information. To have a man put up in public debate which is advertised all over the coun- try, who, upon trial, shows that he can not cope with his adversary, is, with the minimizing at least, to cast dis credit upon the side which he is de- fending."
 That is an explicit admission that Horr was worsted, and it comes from one of the leading gold papers of the country. With lack of candor, how ever, the Herald lays the blame upon the man rather than upon the cause he represented.
 The Indianapolis Sentinel, another gold paper, says: "From wholly dis interested standpoint it must be &C., knowledged that Mr. Harvey is proving rather more than a match for Mir. Horr as @ debate. MT. Horr does not seem to understand his side of the question:" The Sentinel, like the Herald, planes MT. Horr, but it could not name man in the country who could do better.
 Before the debate ended MT. Harvey was deluged with letters refecting sen timent in all parts of the country simi- lar to that of the newspaper extracts given. David Kirk, president of the McCalmont Oil company, of Pitts burg, wrote: II congratulate you on your success in the discussion in which you are engaged. AS far as I have had re- port of it, you seem to have thoroughly demolished your opponent. But our papers are not publishing any report of it now. Our leading paper was very chirpy at first, and evidently expected to see you made mincemeat of; but when it became evident that it was the other fellow that would be chopped up, it ceased to report the debate, with the remark that it was only war of words, and would not settle the ques- tion anyway"
 E. J. Marshall, treasurer of the Mar. shall Engine company, of Turner Falls, Mass, wrote in like vein, saying: "We cannot get any news of the debate only In fragments. You must be do- ing we'll, or the Eastern press would not suppress the news"
 These expressions, coupled with the fact that many of the Eastern papers ceased to publish full reports of the de- bate after Horr's discontinue was made manifest, show that the palm of victory is with the silver champion. The op- ponents of silver cannot escape from the verdict either by belittling the cause or by rehecting upon the ability of the gold champion. History will re- cord the debate as one of the most inn portant ever held in this country, and it will record the fact that Harvey was the victor, just as it records Lincoln's triumph in that other debate once car ried on in Illinois.
 Having come out from the great con- test victorious, the question now is. will the free coinage cause be benefited by it's success? We think it will. Some one has offered to wager that the gold men will not put the report of the debate before the people as campaign document and that the silver men will. He has no doubt hit the nail on the head. It would be of immense advant. age if the ''sound money" associations should circulate the book, but the free coinage advocates will see that it is sown broadcast over the land. The prominence given the debate will foster desire to read the report, and it will be perused by multitudes in all sec.