The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-05
JOHN P. JONES FOR DEMOCRACY.

JOHN p. JONES FOR DEMOCRACY.
When, on August 90, 1894. Senator
John T. Jones, of Nevada, wrote to
Chairman Enoch Strother, of the Re
publican State Central committee of
Nevada, announcing that he could no
longer act with the Republican party,
because that party is ''unalterably OPP
posed to the free coinage of silver at
the American ratio of 16 to l, or at all,
except with the consent of foreign gov
ernments and at ratio to be dictated
by Them" it fell like a bombshell in the
Republican camp and created conster-
nation. 1t was the most important
secession from that party that had oc-
Cured in years, and SO far as the West
was concerned, the most important of
ALL
And now comes another announce
ment that will create more CONSERVATION
among the Republicans, and especially
the Republicans Of the West. 1t is that
Senator John P Jones will stump Ohio
for the Democracy. The announce
ment is made in a special telegram
from Columbus, o., dated September
% (remark that it is just month after
Senator Jones left the Republican
party, to the Pittsburg Dispatch. We
give that portion of the telegram re-
ferring to Senator Jones:
But more cheerful and encouraging
news has reached the party leaders
within the week. This is no less than
an announcement that Senator John P.
JONES' of Nevada, who recently re-
nounced his party for Populism, has
been invited and will accept an invita-
ton to stump Ohio for Democracy in
general and the silver people in par
ticular. This suggests the key
note to the Democratic cam
paign in the state. = The
appearance of Senator Jones gives
the cue to the character of the
campaign. 1t means that the silver
men all over the country are coming
to the rescue of the silver wing of the
Ohio Democracy. 1t is argued
that the obligation upon them to come
to the rescue of Democracy is moral as
well as political and business. Should
the Democracy lose the state by
heavy majority, the cause of silver
would receive a backSet that would
require ten years of time in which to
regain the lost time. If they do not
aid the Democrats and the latter should
suffer a crushing defeat, the silver men
of the country will have to wait a long
time before they can again use the
Democracy of Ohio to pull their chest
nuts out of the fire.
What does all this mean? 1t means
that Senator Jones, the greatest of the
advocates of free silver, believes that
the hope for silver is in the Democratic
party; it means that Senator Jones and
his followers believe that the great
wrong done the people by the demone-
tization of silver in 1873 by the Repub-
lican party will be righted by the DEM
ocratic party; it means that when the
great industry Of the silver-producing
states is revived it will be through the
agency Of the Democratic party. The
Herald and the Democratic speakers in
Utah have maintained this to be the
case right along. The records of the
two parties prove this.
Senator Jones and the silver
men are aiding the Democracy
in Ohio. And why? Because if
the Democrats should be defeated in
Ohio this fall 1.-The cause of silver
would receive a backset that would
require ten years of time in which to
regain the lost time And if silver
should receive this backset, by whom
would it be given? BY the Republi-
cans, the natural and historic enemy
of silver
Every friend of silver in Utah must
wish the Democrats Of Ohio success.
Every friend of silver in Utah should
support the Democratic party in Utah
if his wishes and interest are for the
restoration of silver to it's proper place
as money metal Every miner in
Utah knows that John p. Jones would
do nothing SO far as silver is concerned
that is not to his interest and the adj
Vancement of the cause of free silver.
John P. Jones, by his action in stump
ing Ohio for the Democracy, proclaims
to all the world that the interests of
silver are furthered as the interests, cf
Democracy are furthered. He ais, pro-
claims that whoever advances the
cause Of the Republican party is hostile
to silver Let those who, believe that
Senator Jones is the friend ard advo-
cate Of free silver and the cause of the
miner and the Wes-, do as he has
done-come out bodily Tor the cause of
Democracy as being The cause of fraa
silver.