The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-08
SILVER AND THE SENATOR.

| 1t is of no use for the Tribune editor
either to abuse those who quote the
words of Senator Jones in repudiating
the Republican party, or to evade what
he said by substituting for his peril
nent language a sentence or two which
do not touch the point This is what
he said, and it is the marrow in the
bone which the Tribune is snarling
i at:
Having become fully convinced the
Republican party organiza ton is unal-
terably opposed to the free coinage OF
silver at the ratio of 16 to l, or at all,
except with the consent of foreign gov
lernments and at ratio to he dicta-
ted by them. 1 have to announce 1 can
no longer act with this party.
That is explicit enough for anybody,
we should suppose. But our dishonest
lneighbor quotes our remark that:
Senator Jones has at length come to
the same conclusion as that arrived
at by Senator Stewart, which is that
there is no hope for silver in the Re-
publican party"
Then the Tribune says:
What Senator Jones really said was
that '"The Republican party repealed a
law of its own making on a demand
Of the Democratic party"
Compare that sentence with what
Senator Jones actually said. and the
falsehood of the Tribune's puerile at
tempt to divert attention from the ker-
mel by pointing at the she'll of the SEN
ators letter will be appreciated
1t is fact, undeniab bic by any honest
Republican. that Senator Jones and
Senator Stewart have both reached
the conviction that the Republican
party is ''unalterably opposed to the
free coinage of silver" That is what
The Herald has declared and what the
figures of the votes on the silver ques-
ton in Congress have demonstrated.
The Tribune may call names-its
common and most congenial employ
ment-and try to turn a point by mis-
representing an opponent, but that will
not count against the fact and the fig
ures that brand the Republican party
organization as Anti-Silver.
What Senator Jones said about the
action of both parties in relation to
silver was entirely in reference to thu
Sherman act. The Tribune says:
What Senator Jones asserted was
that the sin of the Republican party
was doing the bidding of the Demo
cratic party on silver.
False again. No such sentence can
be found in the Senator's letter, as
published in the dispatch in The Her
aid and in the Tribune. Here is what
he said. as so reported:
''The. Republican party repealed
law of its own making on demand of
the Democratic party"
That had sole reference to the repeal
act. The Senator said in reference to
that:
while the Democrats must share in
the responsibility for that repeal, it
is only the action of the Republicans
with which he is concerned"
The naked fact remains that the Re-
publican party, which "demonetized"
silver in 1873. has been against its re-
storation ever since that time Senator
Jones, following the example of Sena-
tor Stewart and Congressman New
lands. announces that fact, and there
fore his detection from the party in
consequence. Nevada and Colorado
have done the same thing in effect.
We repeat what every candid Repub-
lican ought to acknowledge, that there
is no hope for free silver coinage in
the Republican national party. The re-
demption Of silver will, come through
the Democracy if the Democratic party
is permitted to continue in power. 1t
is the hard money and bimetallic party
of the United States and will so stand
before the country at the next presi-
Dental election. Silver is doomed if
the Republican party again becomes
triumphant