The Weekly Intelligencer

Weekly Intelligencer.

JAMES E. PAYNE,
Editor and Manager.

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The INTELLIGENCER will be in the next campaign and be in hot.

The grip has begun its work in this country, and men's noses are becoming more troublesome than ever.

Mr. Mills is in favor of free sugar. Take care, Mr. Mills. That's republicanism in the estimation of some of your admirers in this section of the world.

The INTELLIGENCER WAS on the winning side in the speakership fight, and the probabilities are that it will be on the winning side in several other important battles during the coming year.

Col. Switzler assures the young democrats of Kansas City that Grover Cleveland is a man of courage and convictions. What a ponderous producer of old chestnuts that man Switzler is.

The Kansas City Star is concerning itself almost as much over Mr. Cleveland's candidacy as the New York Times. These two eminent mugwumps evidently think the democratic party doesn't know its own business.

Every democrat will regret that Hon. Roger Q. Mills is sulking over his defeat for the speakership. Mr. Mills was fairly beaten, and should have accepted the result with the grace that becomes a good democrat.

The most complete and valuable official publication ever issued in the state of Missouri is the Lesueur manual. The compiler, Secretary of State A. A. Lesueur, is one of the best public servants the state ever had. - Columbia Herald.

Some people are surprised that the INTELLIGENCER doesn't first find out what public opinion is and then drift along with it. What's a fellow worth if he can't row against the tide sometimes. Any chunk of drift wood can float with the current, but it takes a man to pull up stream.

Hon. Roger Q. Mills announces himself a candidate for the United States Senate from Texas. Upon the resignation of Senator Reagan, Mr. Chilton was appointed to fill the unexpired term. An election will be held in February next, and Mills and Chilton will strive for the honors.

For several weeks the St. Louis Republic tried to bulldoze congress and compel it to elect Mills speaker. It is now trying to bulldoze Crisp and compel him to appoint Mills chairman of the ways and means committee. The sight of an alligator trying to gnaw the ribs off a file is very pleasing.

It is politics for babes and sucklings to preach that the gold and silver question shall be left out of the presidential campaign. * * * It is politics for cowards and straddlers to advise and contrive that the democratic national convention's trumpet next summer shall blow some uncertain sound. - Gov. Hill's Elmira speech.

The democratic party in congress seems determined to do just what the INTELLIGENCER a few weeks ago said it ought to do, and that is, be true to party interests, true to the people's interests, move carefully, be conservative and work for the best welfare of the nation. Congress will not go crazy over anything, but will be deliberate, painstaking and industrious.

The fact that Gov. Hill is making speeches in New York favoring the free coinage of silver, makes it look as if those democrats who wanted to retreat from the silver issue because they feared the party could not carry New York with that issue prominent in its platform, were running before they were shot at. Hill is the best posted man in New York about political feeling there, and knows precisely what he is doing.

It is now conceded that the present congress will repeal the Sherman silver law (act of July, 1890) and pass a bill providing for the free coinage of all silver produced from mines of the United States. This is the policy of Speaker Crisp, a large majority of congress, and seven-tenths of the people of the United States. The fact that no foreign silver will be coined cuts no practical figure, as there is no foreign silver that is likely to seek coinage at our mints.

Illinois seems to have a few fool editors as well as Missouri; editors that are now berating Springer as ours are berating Hatch for presuming to resist the bossism of the St. Louis Republic, and entering the race for the speakership. It might as well be settled now as at any other time.

It was not Hatch, nor Springer, nor McMillan who beat Mills, but that eminent democrat and accomplished parliamentarian from Georgia, Charles F. Crisp. Had there been but Crisp and Mills in the race, Crisp would simply have had the vote on the first ballot he received on the thirtieth, with possibly fifteen or twenty more, which Mills' bulldozers frightened away from Crisp's support.

Monometallists and gold bugs and their satellites are trying to muddle Gov. Hill's declarations upon the coinage of gold and silver in his Elmira speech. There is no necessity whatever in misunderstanding him. He said the absolute parity of gold and silver must be maintained and maintained naturally. This could only be done, he said, by restoring silver coinage as we had it previous to 1873. When the two metals had the same rights at the mint, the silver dollar of 412½ grains, standard, would be just as valuable as the gold dollar of 25.8 grains, standard. The man who doesn't understand that, either is devoid of common sense or doesn't want to understand it.