The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-25
MORE LAUNDERING.

The Colorado gentlemen who went to
the Chicago convention as Democrats are
now trying to pose as something else.
They have issued call for q meeting TO
decide whether they will stand by the
action Of the convention and support the
ticket, or 20 off and flock by themselves
So far rs the result is concerned it doesn't
matter what those gentlemen do. Only
they Will be affected The Democ-
racy will not be hurt, the Republi-
can party win not be helped, and
it cannot affect things in the least if few
soreheads go off and sulk This is free
country. If men want to batter their
brains out by butting their heads against q
stone wall they are at liberty to crafty
themselves. If Democrats disagree with
the party and think they can manage bet
ter, it is their privilege to try.
The trouble with our Colorado friends
is that their love of silver has
made them mad. If they are not
careful their malady will not end
this side Of insanity. We find no fault
with them for wanting silver restored to
its place in our monetary system. Every
body in the west wants the same thing, as
do good many in the south and few in
the east. The poor, it may be said, all
want it. Hence the ambition of the Colo
RADIO gentlemen is proper and lauda5le.
Only their method is reprehenslble.
What can they accomplish by pursuing the
course which they propose! If they
would give themselves time to do q little
intelligent thinking, they would answer,
Nothing. If all the men ia Colorado, Dem
ocrats and Republicans, were to vote only
for pronounced free silver candidate for
president, they would not hasten by day
the passage of free silver bill. If the
Coloradoans were to be joined in this by
all the voters of Nevada Idaho and Mon
tana, the only other possible silver states,
what would be accomplished Again,
Nothing. Yet, something would be done
The votes Of four states would be thrown
away. The voters Of four states would
give proof that they were proper subjects
for the insane asylum.
The HERALD repeats what it has said
many times, that the best friends of silver
are those who work within their respective
parties to bring about the rehabilitation of
silver. There will never come a time in
this country when free coinage will be an
issue between the great national parties.
There may be free coinage parties, but
they will be local and insignifcant-never
influential, never holding the balance of
power, never controlling. Whatever is
gained must be gained as In the past, by
education within the parties, by the con-
version of individuals, by making Demo
Gratis and Republicans, while still main
tanning their allegiance to their re-
spective parties, believe also in silver.
Excellent progress has been made by pur
suing this course. The Congress proceed
ing the present one was very little short
of free silver majority. This Congress
would pass free coinage bill were it not
for the fact that presidential election is
coming. If the educational work shall CON
tlnue within the party lines why may we
not expect that the next Congress will
contain enough friends of silver to give US
the law we wantl That law will be de-
layed If the silver men antagonize the old
parties aud make war upon the only people
who can help them. Colorado Democrats
are certainly making a mistake in this
business, as they viii learn one of thess
days, if they persist, when they find them
selves outside the Democratic party, and
powerless to help themselves.