The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-26
IDAHO Is WATCHING
The Gallant Fight Now Raging
in Utah.
SOME DEAD AND LIVE ISSUES
What 10 the Position Of the Democratic
Party on the Silver and Other
Questions?


BOISE CITT, Idaho, July 22.-[Correspond
ence Of THE HERALD. The Democracy of
Idaho is anxiously watching your gallant
fight with the Tribune in its mad and insane
effort te put new life in the hitherto bitter
sectional feelings which through its efforts
have been so long famed and kept sglow
after the cause has been removed. The
Democrats up here in Idaho are thoroughly
in sympathy with the Utah Democracy on
the Mormon question. We believe with
you that when the thing is dead let 1t rest
The Mormon agitation is not so precious
that it needs revival. The fight for bigamy
and polygamy is dead issue. Let the peo-
pie, IL they choose, according to their best
light divide up on national lines, to be found
only in the two great political parties
throughout the Union. The Utah Demo
crat who still clings to the Tribune and
from its ghost of its dead issue extracts his
inspiration, puts me in mind Of the old dog
barking 1p tree long after the coon had
escaped or been taken in the chase. The
application is easily made.
The Tribune has posed in the role of q
"boss" so long in Utah, and for that mat
ter in Idaho, and been their dictator gen
eral in political affairs, that it is not to be
wondered at it dies hard. Even It's callous
hide is impervious to the appeals of the
people regardless of party. Even such true
and staunch Republicans as Judge Zane
and the Hon. q. w. Bennett, plead with it
in vain to accept the political situation by
dissolviDg the Liberal party, and TO hence
| forth fight the political battles of Utah on
4 nd n
but like Rachel of old, mourning for her
children, II will not be comforted, for the
departed ghost of polygamy is dearer TO it,
apparently, than all else, and it turns a
deaf ear and continues 10 hammer on this
| issue of the past
| The question is shall the great political
parties in Utah be broken up and destroyed
simply TO crafty this self constituted
boss,
VIII Mahomet go to the mountain or the
mountain go TO Mahomet!
think these questions can very safely
be left to old Time to settle.
Believing the fact TO be that the Mormon
question and issues growing out OF il is a
thing of the the past and not longer open
to discussion, we Democrats of Idaho
should like an expression from your
paper upon live question, viz, the silver
question. Do you favor the resolution OF
| the Denver congress declaring for the free
coinage OF the American product OF silver
and ratified by the Salt Lake Tribune and
the Denver Republican, or do you stand
with the Rocky Mountain NeUs and the
views of Senator Teller and others for the
free. unlimited and independent coinage of
silver without regard TO locality / ask
this question for the reason L do not re-
member TO have seen anywhere in The
HERALD an expression upon this issue.
For my part ] think the Democrats Will
make great mistake if they do not stand
solid for the free, unlimited and independ-
emit coinage OF silver regardless of
locality. The position the Tribune
now occupies on this subject, in my
Judgment, is a clear surrender of its
former position on the silver question to
the gold bugs, and a knockout from what il
has heretofore protested TO advocate upon
this subject
To support the resolution as put through
under whip and spur at the Denver con-
gress and advocated by the Tribune, is to
surrender the fort and acknowledge that it
is possible that the people can have too
much silver in circulation and that il is not
a necessary factor IN the worlds circulat-
ing medium.
The Democracy of Idaho will by and by
see that no such temporiZing position Is
taken here by the party in the next cam
paign. The Republicans here are cautiously
paving the way 20 take the other view, and
doing so will cajole in the meantime Demo
Gratis to take the same position in order to
take the question out of state politics. Du-
bois, Sweet and other leaders OF the Repub-
licans here are very perceptibly leaning in
this direction, but at the same time watch
ing and waiting the command OF the leaders
in the Republican party.
The coming campaign must necessarily
be enc of education, and with system of
clubs well organized and a proper distri-
button of sound, wholesome Democratic
literature to stand against the receptions
and misrepresentation of the &. o. p. we
will reclaim Idaho with her electoral vote
for Democratic president. With discord
within AID without. faction arrayed
against faction, the g. o. p.-the defender
of high tariffs, low wages, the 81 200, DOC, 900
congress and our wasteful and extravagant
appropriation of the peoples money on IN
deserving and fraudulent pensioners. sub
sides, bounties, public buildings, etc, ETC.
it must be apparent TO all who have OBJ
served the current of events since the last
election, that its long lease Of ill-gotten and
corrupt power must and will come to q
close with the present administration of
Harrison. Thousands of good and true
men who have heretofore voted the
Republican ticket for years have
seen gradually the offices which
they voted to bestow upon Repup-
licans strained beyond their CON
stitutional limit and perverted and diverted
into illegal and corrupt channels by spoils
men, rings and machine bosses, until ley
have at last become sick of temporizing
with them by throwing tubs to these sharks
and whales who devour everything and
leave not a crumb, and they have at last
resolved TO let the whole rotten craft, tubs
and all. 60 to the bottom of the sea, an d
look out for another upon which to take
refuge. This wreck must once more call
the Democratic party to full power in all
branches of the government in state and
nation. The political future of the Democ-
racy is bright with promise, and Democrats
not only in Utah. but here in Idaho, look
with confidence to The HERALD for great
achievements in the coming fight.