The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1895-04-16
SILVER IN THE EHsT.
cincinnati Enquirer.l

can organs in the larger cities OF
this state succeed in heading it
off the next Republican State
Convent n will be compelled 10
insert silver plank in its plat
form.
1t will be 10 halfway treat
ment of the matter, either, but
broad and liberal, perhaps not
going SO far as to favor the free
and unlimited coinage, but close
ly approximating that.
The great contest before the
convention is held will be to head
off resolutions demanding free
coinage. There will be no throt-
Ting in the convention. The
work will have to be accomplish
ed before the state gathering is
held. II commenced to-day in
lengthy editorials, but the chan
ces are that the efforts in this
direction will prove unavailing.
This much is certain, the conven
ton will not be satisfied with the
general statement such as has
appeared in platforms OF the
past. Something mora definite
will be demanded, and that de-
mand will be so emphatic as to
not permit of much in the way
of juggling. IL is now the deter
mination of a coterie of leaders
to endeavor to prevent the adop-
ton of any utterance that will
have a fixed meaning in favor of
free coinage. Heretofore they
have been successful in heading
off anything very radical. This
time, however, they will be tax
ed to their wits end, and it APP
pears that the convention will
run away with them.
1t is quite apparent that the
leaders do not fully appreciate
the extent to which this move.
ment has grown. Neither do
they understand, perhaps, how
thoroughly the people of the
state are posting themselves on
the silver question. Yet in al
most every locality the movement
has grown to something akin to a
craze, and in none has this more
plainly developed than in local
tiles where the Republicans
strongly predominant. 1t is sur
prising local politicians, and in
most Republican counties of the
state to argue against it today is
to invite suspicion, AMI, were
there an election, 10 insure &c
feat, ven in ward politics. This
is alarming prospective candi
dates, and they and their bench
men are hustling to mount the
band wagon.
Nowhere than in Indiana it is
becoming palmer that the finan
cial will be the one great ques
ton of the next presidential cam
paign. Since the last election
there has been remarkable
veering about-a complete
change of base. Previous tt
that the people of this state were
satisfied to follow the lead of the
politicians, who attributed finan
cial depression entirely to the
alteration of the tariff. Since
the election, though, the people
have been doing great deal O
thinking upon their own account
While the Republicans in Indian;
are willing to concede that tn,
change in the tariff has been /;
powerful factor in producing
present stagnation, they are be
ginning to believe that more
deep-rooted cause is to be found
in defective currency,
Large sums of money have
been expended by the state com
mittee of both the predominant
parties in the distribution Of
tariff literature. Congre ssmal
have used their franking privil
eyes to the widest extent in dis
seminating the same. Their Ct
forts have been for naught. Blu
few of these documents are read
Hence the campaign of educatio,