The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-19
In Danger of Death.

Our morning contemporary objects to
the statement of THE HERALD that the =
O. p. is sin bad fix In order to show
to the contrary it rambles over more than
a column, and with its accustomed logic
succeeds in proving that the party is in a
worse condition than THE HERALD de-
scribed. 1t appears that the party is not
only in bad fix but in danger OF being
superseded by new party.
''All its reyerses, - we are told, tsare
due TO one thing, that is the way it has
treated the currency question: And
the danger to the party now is that it will
continue its operations against silver as
money" Observe this candid admission:
The Republican party is to blame
for the opposition to silver as
money. OF course that is moth
ing new as matter of fact. 1t
| is well-known that the decentralization of
silver by trick was due to Republican
party schemers. But it is new to see the
Tribune acknowledge this and to predict
the downfall OF that party in consequences
of its continued antagonism to silver as
money.
The new party which is to be organized,
if the silver question is not soon settled,
is to have for ''the first plank in its plat
form that gold and silver must stand side
by side in the recognition of the govern
ment; must both be legal tender for all
debts.'' The next is to be tariff plank,
''a tariff for revenue with incidental pro-
tection.''
1t will take good deal of argument to
persuade the country that all the reYerses
of the Republican party have come
through its action on silver. And it
looks as though the Tribune does not
believe its own statement for, as
the second plank in the platform
of the party which is TO supersede the
g. o. p, it gives the reverse of the Re-
for revenue is what the Democratic
party demands. The Republican party
holds to a tariff for protection with Incl
dental revenue, and it is to that much
more than to its silver attitude that it has
met with its great reverses. That was
the issue in 1890 and still more so in 1892.
Ii the Republican party had declared
| for silver in the way the Tribune desires
it would have lost the election last fall
with worse minority than it scored. 1t
might have gained some votes in the west
but would have lost many more in the
east. The Populists would not have
pulled away so many ballots, out the
monometailists, who are in the major
ity, would have hattened the party
out. 1t was the tariff question
that figured above all others in the last
campaign, and the prediction that the
new party which is to take the place of
the G. o. p. is TO reverse the tariff policy
which lost the election, is proof that the
Tribune so regarded it in spite OF its silver
exaggerations.
| Its regeneration on the Democratic
party does not count in the argument. 1t
is the Republican party that's under con-
sideration. If it is not sin bad fix, -
why is it in danger of dissolution? If it
is SO livery much aliye' why predict its
supplanting by new party with issues
the very opposite OF its own? And ii
folks are N'quietly smiling" over imagin-
larry Democratic anxiety, are they not
laughing out loud over the logic of the
Republican defender which puts its party
in dead hole while trying to show it is
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