Many Westerners Sane

The following letter, taken from the Ilowell Republican is from a former resident of Livingston County, a farmer, and one who is known to many of the farmers of tliis county, as he dealt quite largely in sheep before the free trade days had killed oír tliat industry. We of the central and eastern states are so often told that there ure none but crazy silver men out there, that it seems hardly possible that Mr. Garlock, the writer, can be in earnest. It only tends to show how such things become exaggerated. Read the letter. It will do you good : Ou-ex, Wyo., July títh, 1S96. Geo. Barnes, Esq., I am glad the political sky back east looks so promising. The ticket and the platform can't be beaten. It's i nomination "Of the People and for the People," and will win. We have tried running democratie free trade, and after piling up a debt of $202,000,000 in three years, will probably bc asked at the Chicago convention to start out to buy up the world's silver output. We are not in shape to do it, and it is well the east knows it. Pon't tliink the west gone daft on the silver question ; they are not. A few only will follow Senator Teller - not as man y as he thought when he went out of the St. Louis convention. Colorado, the most prosperous state in the Union, is unreliable, but we can do without her if we must. These silver men are noisy, but don't pan out on election day. Dubois, Mantle, Hartman, Carter and Cannon don't represent their constituents, and will be replaced by men that do. Quiet and brainy John M. Thurston represents the solid west. He's western goods, "All wool and a yard wide." Some of the west is wild but not as wooly as it was. In about four months sheep men will be in better shape. Hold the fort for McKinley. Yours as ever,