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in one age takes the form of putting base metal in 

 with the good, or of clipping the good, and in an- 

 other assumes the guise of fiat money, or the free 

 coinage of silver. On this currency question they 

 are substantially alike, agreeing (as one of their 

 adherents picturesquely put it, in arguing in favor of 

 that form of abundant currency which has as its 

 highest exponent the money of the late Confed- 

 eracy) that "the money which was good enough for 

 the soldiers of Washington is good enough for us." 

 As a matter of fact the soldiers of Washington were 

 not at all grateful for the money which the loud- 

 mouthed predecessors of Mr. Bryan and his kind 

 then thought "good enough" for them. The money 

 with which the veterans of Washington were paid 

 was worth two cents on the dollar, and as yet neither 

 Mr. Bryan Mr. Sewall, nor Mr. Watson has ad- 

 vocated a two-cent copper dollar. Still, they are 

 striving toward this ideal, and in their advocacy of 

 the fifty-cent dollar they are one. 



But beyond this they begin to differ. Mr. Sewall 

 distinctly sags behind the leader of the spike team, 

 Mr. Bryan, and still more distinctly behind his rival, 

 or running mate, or whatever one may choose to call 

 him, the Hon. Thomas Watson. There is far more 

 regard for the essential fitness of things in a ticket 

 which contains Mr. Bryan and Mr. Watson than 

 one which contains Mr. Bryan and Mr. Sewall. Mr. 

 Watson is a man of Mr. Bryan's type, only a little 

 more so. But Mr. Sewall is of a different type, and 

 possesses many attributes which must make associa- 



