Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — Practically Unanimous. [ARTICLE]

Practically Unanimous.

We have yet to see a Republican newspaper east of the Mississippi that fails to take square ground against the course of the five Republican Senators who voted to shelve the tariff bill, says the Commercial Gazette. They speak right out in meetin’. They are ahead of the politicians who let expediency dictate policy. Most of these papers have engaged at one time or another in a silver discussion. Most of them, within a year or two, have had occasion to look into the whole silver question. It is not one to be settled on the spur of the moment: not one as to which hasty judgment will be found to be valuable. When, therefore, newspapers talk as the papers of this country have been talking for the last two or three days, it means that a settled opinion has taken the place of a suspended jndg ment. It means that conclusion has followed argument, and that on the lines marked out the battle is to be fought. It is encouraging—oh, yes, it is inspiring—to see that practically the Republican press is a unit in condemning the cause of Carter, Mantle, Teller & Co. The policy of the St. Louis convention is foreshadowed.