The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-06
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICANS.

The New York Commercial AdverttSer,
once Republican but now Mugwump,
says of the Chicago conventions plat
form:
The platform adopted is astonishing in its
proposals II is, as we. have said, IN
Republican and un-Amerlcan. 1t is a plat
form in direct contradiction OF the history,
of the principles of the teachings, and the
oft-reiteyat ed promises of the party in whose
name a conspiracy of INSCRIPTIONS poll
ticians has put it forth Lincoln would
have repudiated it with disgust and loath-
ing because 1t antagonizes individual liberty
of favored and would-be aristocratic class.
Henry Wilson would never have assented
to it, Salmon P. Chase would have sc0rned
it. Garfield, Grant, Arthur, McCulIoch'
and Folger, left words on record which con
denim its most vital parts, and we mistake
the character and temper of intelligent Re-
publicanS of to-day If many thousands OF
them do not condemn 1t with their ballots,
as their representative newspapers nave
through many months condemned Its Sug-
gestionS in advance.
The same paper, under the head
"What, W, sra going to do about it,"
says:
What are we-the people of the United
States going to do about it? We. will tell
you plainly, gentlemen monOpol1sts, who
desire TO tax US for your enrichment, a4o TO
make of yourselves our aristocratlc rulers
We are going to enforce the American idea,
which all parties in this country have hlth-
erte respected, and to which only cranks,
Anarchists and Communists have ventured
to oppose themselves.
The Republican party starts out
on the defense, and its campaign
must be defensive all the way
through. It's defense will be less as to
its candidates than its platform. The
people care very little for men, but they
are devoted to principle. When the
convention declared in favor of free
rum and free tobacco while the COM
mon necessaries of life are heavily taxed,
it invited the opposition of the people
of the working masses who will never
be convinced that it is right to cheaper
luxuries for the benefit of the rich
while the prices of all articles that the
poor must have are increased AZ per
cent. by tariff taxation. The Americans
are intelligent and wise, and
We don't believe they can be oajoled
into supporting platform framed and
constructed in the interest of mon
opolies and trusts-a platform fashioned
for the rich and for the oppression of
the poor.
Prominent Republicans and leading
journals of the party are repudiatiDg
the platform and with it the ticket.
One OF the most Influential CT these is
Mayor Low, of Brooklyn. who openly
predicts the overwhelming defeat of the
Harrison ticket, not because Harrison
is not good man personally. but be-
cause his party has placed him
on platform which intelli-
gent people will not sustain by
their votes. The Commercial Advertiser
above quoted, voices the sentiments O.
many honest Republicans who will not
permit their party feaIty to run against
their own good judgment to the injury
or their personal interests.
We confidently look for a long pro-
cession of Republicans to follow Low in
his opposition to the un-American, IN
Republican, monopolistic plato rm.