The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-10

The whilom local silver champion
still makes a poor pretence of belief
that the Republican party will do some
thing for silver. Yet it has to confess
as to the two prominent Republican
chiefs:
But there is no light even in ex-
President Harrison's mind on the cur
rency question
I'VE have not much hopes of him on
the silver question; we have none at all
from Mr.. Mckinley"
Take these admissions of Friday with
the announcement of the same paper on
Thursday as follows:
Now the question is, will the Demo-
cratic party see the truth and resort to
the only remedy to save itself from per-
petual overthrow within its grasp? We
believe it will. We believe out of the
discontinue of this party there will
come Immediately upon the re-assembl-
ing Of Congress a proposition to give
silver free coinage"
What does all that mean? Is it not
that the Tribune really believes, with
Senators Stewart and Jones, the great
est of the former Republican stalwarts
who have forsal1en their party for the
cause of the white metal, that there
is no hope for silver in the Republican
party?" And further. has it not come
round to The Herald's proposition, at
which it scoffed so much short time
ago, that the only hope for silver is in
the Democratic party?
But suppose Mr.. Bland, of Missouri,
was once more to do what the Tribune
suggests, introduce another bill ''to give
silver free coinage" Is it possible to
pass such a measure with the con-
tinued hostility Of the Republicans in
Congress to anything of the kind? The
experience of the first session of the
present Congress proves to a demon
stration that they are immovably op-
posed to free silver coinage, and it only
requires the aid of a few goldite Demo-
Gratis to defeat a bill supported by the
great sjority of the real, old, hard
money party.
The people of the west have gone
back on the party which could have
given them what they need more than
anything else They have supported at
the polls the party which demonetized
the white metal, which refused re-
peatedly from the date of that demone-
tization until the present to restore sill
yer to its former place, and which
has voted down every Democratic bill
introduced for that purpose.
The people of Ohio have declared
against free silver, for the campaign just
over was fought on that issue. The
vote of. Missouri in BANDS district is
in the same direction. The triumph of
the anti-silver party is complete
throughout the country. And any
Democratic proposition at the coming
session of Congress to restore free coin
age would, without doubt, be jumped
upon with greater ferocity than ever
by the Republicans in both Houses.
Silver win have no show until the
election of 1896. Then if Utah, Arizona
and New Mexico, the new states, will
unite with the other silver states and
the south in electing a Democratic
president and Congress pledged to free
silver coinage. the redemption of the
white metal will be achieved 1t is in
vain that any hopes are centered in
the Republican party, and the election
just concluded. in which the west has
foolishly assisted against their one
great interest, has postponed the day
of deliverance and formed clouds of
gloom that cover the whole silver sky.