The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-19

menG OF government bonds may require
some change in the securities demanded as
guarantee for National bank notes. but
the party which devised the system and
made it magnificent success may De re-
lied upon to meet the emergency when it
| arises.
| There is good reason to hope for some
practical union of the effort for common
solution OF the silver problem with an in
creased use OF silver through the inter
national silver conference but in any
event the country has learned to trust the
| financial status and integrity of the Re-
publican party ana distrust IT'S opponents.
! 1t is statement which 10 candid aud
confident business authority, whatever
its political tendencies. csn deny that
the adoption CT The policy pursued by our
! opponents In their declaration OF principles
as to the repeal Of the present tariff The
passage Of tariff for revenue only, and
| substitution OF state bank for national
currency. would give SD immediate and dis
astrlous shock TO business. But we are
sometimes told they do not mean what they
| say II so could people wisely entrust
power to party which does not mean to
keep its promises, and appeals for popular
support with an admitted lie on its lips.
At other times we are told
good many things did happen though the
worst could not, because the hands OF the
present political situation makes it plain
that Democratic victory in the states
which they must now carry In order TO
elect their president would also ensure
them enough senators to reverse the pres
ent slender majority in the Senate. If
they elect the president they will certainly
have both House and Senate, and Inns will
be placed In absolute control for the first
time since 1859, with nothing 10 prevent
the carrying out of the threats they have
made against the present Tariff and cur
rency system. 1t is idle, therefore, as il is
slanderous, to say there is no danger from
the triumph OF our opponents, since their
candidate Will not refuse TO carry out their
plans.
1t is well. however. to say that the enuu-
citation in the Democratic platform of
principle that the federal government may
supervise the election of federal officers is
grotesque. The principle long recognized
| and sustained by the courts az il now
stands undisputed On the statute books and
was enforced at the recent elections by
Grover Cleveland, then presidents. But
1t is not to be disguised that tie recent
clamor against the principles, if it means
anything, means the purpose to na!lify the
fourteenth and fifteenth articles TO the
constitution.
The Republican party has taken success
full steps looking to u revival of American
shipping and the resolutions of it's conven-
ton confirm its devotion to principle. The
Democratic resolutions say nothing on the
subject and it is fair to say that tbs Dem
ocratic party takes no interest in it. It's
only desire is that we should buy ships
abroad just as through, in the tariff con-
test, 1t wishes US to buy iron, clothes, cot
ton goods, glassware, pottery and lin
abroad,
Tae administration of President Harri-
son is generally recognized as honest, aole
and safe. Considering the number OF i'm
portant subjects, both foreign and domes-
tic it has been compelled to deal with and
the satisfaction that attended lis results, it
may indeed be pronounced brilliantly sue
cessful l believe your declaration of prin-
ciple and your denomination of prudent,
spotless aud successful president will com
mand popular approval 81 the polls and
will, under God, insure the annual Dene-
fit of our country.