The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-08
A Powerful Sac.or

mo event in the present campaign has
created SO much CONSERVATION in the Re-
publican Camp as the avowal by Judge
GRESHAM of his intention to vote for
CLEvELAs5 for president. Neither the in
creased Democratic msiorItes in the south
nor the decreased Republican maiorities in
Few England have aroused such an
eWakeninglto the real dangers of the stu
ailon as THIS Que declaration. ScHuRz, Nc
Weigh, CoPLEy. FoULKE, and the host of
lesser ma9netes, though all influential,
nave probably not together produced SO
profound lsensation in quitting the ranks
OF the protection party.
Judge GEgsuAM was in 1855 very promi-
neniiy spoken of for The presidency,
thougn he declined 10 enter the lists as
candidate In Indiana his friends
contested the race with HARRISON, aud
"a LIMOS and throughout the west he was
marked favorite. GRESHAM clubs pa
raded The streets Of the convention city
Win dinner pals as their emblem, and hc
was everywhere known as the working
mans friend. The orator who, on another
occasion, had placed the "Plumed knight''
In nomination, now mnde the wigwam re-
Verperate With praises of "GREsHAM, the
just. and Distant bench and bar re-echoed
IN low tones what INGERsoLL said. But in
tnat convention were ELKIxs and KERgSs
ana other such representatives OF the lat
ter-day PINNED KING ht'' then coaching
In Scotland with the lord OF Quincy castle,
the head Of the firm of Carnegie & Co.
Such men had no use for GRESHAM, and
when the word came from over the sea the
BLAINE forces we're swung to HARRIsox as
readidly as train TO an open switch
Colonel CLAKKsoN of tho Republican
executive Committee, expressing bis opin-
Ion OF Judge GRESHAM, is quoted as saying
The American people do not follow men
when they Change their votes for personal
reasons" Passing over the personal rea-
sons which Colonel CLAEKsoS SO despises
10 other inciyidnats, man like GRESHAM
has had ample cause as a pure citizen to
aDsolye himself from any party obligation
TO support HARRIsoN, ana without going
beyond Indiana for motive Ii Is not a
personal reason that BENJAMIN HARR1soS
has placed upon The bench OF the United
States circuit corrt from Indiana a man
who as every ~ei,-informed resident of
that state knows. changed his judicial opin.
ion TO conform to the behesfs of Republican
partisans. This is what Judge WooDs did,
ard il was for this he narrowly escaped re-
lection by Republican senate
! Il is not personal to fudge GRESHAM tina,
BENJAMIN HARR1soH connived at the pur
chase OF Indiana with money, and through
the agency OF DupLEY's "blocks of-fve., -
at the las; presidential election, nor that as
he deserted DUDLEY because he was found
ont, he deliberately turned mis- back on
those OF his friends who would give him
nothing but sincere and faithful support.
ii is not personal 10 GRESHAM that a
western man going into the presidency has
cbaadoned western ideas and made his
court in Wall street and with protection's
monc30lists. Judge G. has always be-
LEVIED in reform Of the tariff to bring it
down to a revenue basis Says an Indian
apolis dispatch to the New York Times:
Two weeks ago in conversation with sn In
dianapolis friend. the judge took a pessimistic
view OF the outlook for the farmers and work
men. IN the event OF the Endorsement OF the
MCKINLEY tariff at the polls next month. He
believed That four years more OF McKinleyism
would place the country completely under the
control OF the plutocrats through the creation.
Of trusts and combinations which would con-
troll the industries and the markets OF the
country combinations that would destroy the
labor organizations and ruin the farmers by
controlling thesprice Of agricultural products
But enough Of Judge GREsHAM's rea-
sons for his intention to vote for CLEvE-
LAND The fact itself will be It's best vim
dication in, In6iana and Illinois, where his
influence is most powerful. rot only among
politicians, but with farmers and working
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