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Have Shown Their Hand

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
March
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Democratie campaign managers in Michigan have shown their band. Despairing of success upon principies, they are now striving to deceive voters into support of the Democratie ticket, and are flooding the state with literature of tóe catch-penny order, certifying to tne excellence oL everything Democratie, and especially on the question of silver, attempting1 to hoodwink the people into the belief that he who is the friend of silver can express his friendship at the polls only by a Democratie ballot. We want to emphasize this warning to Kepublicans: The men who are conducting this alleged non-partisan campaign ostecsibly in behalf of silver, are men whose every move is made to advance the interests of the Democratie party. They would as soon advocate views directly opposed to those expressed in their campaign posters this spring if they thought that thereby they could cajole ltepublicans into voting for Democratie candidates. In the face of the very recent action of the Democratie inaiority in Congress against the free coinage of silver, and the well-known attitude of the Democratie President on this question, it takes nerve to attempt to work such a barefaced confidence game in Michigan. The Re publican party is the only p"arty from which the friends of silver have anything to hope. It is pledged to the restoration of silver as a money metal, and the Republican party never fails to fulfill its piedges. Free age of both silver and g-old is bound to come as soon as the Eepublican party again assumes control of the government, but it cannot come as long as a Democratie President, whose every utterance is igainst free silver, stands in the way. It does not seem possible that any sane man can be misled by the free silver talk of these Democratie campaigners into voting against the Eepublican party. Judge Moore, the Eepublican candidate for justiee of the supreme court, is emphatieally in accord with the advocates of the free comage of both silver and gold as money, and is in favor, as is every Eepublican in favor, of having every dollar as good as every other dollar. Campaign circulars tending to put him in a false position on this question may be expected this week. The unscrupulous tactics of the enemy thus far in the campaign give promise of even more desperate methods before next Monday. Eepublicans should be on their guard. Every Eepubliean ought to go to the polls and vote the Eepublican ticket, and every true friend of silver should do the same. The renomination of Regent Butterfield by the Republicans was a deserved compliment to that earnest and painstaking official. Hon. Charles H. Hackley the other Republican candidate f or Regent is the philanthropic and progressive resident of Muskegon, whose name is a synonym for good citizenship. He is a friend of education and in securing his consent to accept the nomination the University and the state have been fortúnate. They will both be elected.

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Ann Arbor Courier