The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-20
ANT1-s1LrEn REruBLrcAsIsM.


1t is stated by a paper which has
posed for long time as friend of sill
yer, that the arguments to show that
the Republican party is opposed to free
coinage are based on what John Sher-
man and the Philadelphia Ledger have
said. That is not true The paper and
the Senator mentioned are both Repab-
lican and both are opposed 20 free silver
coinage. But that is not the basis of
the reason for saying the Republican
party is in the same boat.
The foundation of the position taken
by The Herald on that question is the
record of the party in Congress. That
is deeper and wider and more certain
than the remarks of any man. 1t is
unmistakable and conclusive 1t has
been published several times in this pa
per. 1t has been quoted by Roswell G.
Horn. a strong Republican legislator, as
golden feather in the cap of his party.
1t shows that the decentralization of
silver in 1873 was Republican work 1t.
has been claimed in palliation of that
financial crime that it was done by
trick and accomplished by mistake
Suppose that to be true. The trick was
"a Republican scheme, the mistake a
Republican blunder. And during the
twenty years in which the Republicans
in Congress had it in their power to re-
pair the wrong, however it was done,
they utterly failed to do so.
More than that; the record shows
that every endeavor of the Democrats
in Congress to restore silver to its form
er money status has been opposed by
a majority of the Republicans, who
with a few opposing Democrats, have
been able to defeat those measures.
This is the record right up to date.
Congressman Horn cites it gleefully to
prove that the Republican party is and
has been the champion .of what he calls
honest money" while the Democratic
party is the advocate OF what he deems
the ''heresy' of the free coinage of sill
Yer at the ratio of Is to l with gold,
The facts and the figures prove this
beyond honest dispute. They cannot be
refuted. They are so clear and potent
that Senators Jones and Stewart, with
other stalwart Republican silverites
have given up the fight from
their old standpoint in despair,
and find the only chance for
silver TO be on other ground
than the Republican party.
A writer who, after. years of pretend
ed friendship to the white metal yields
TO the Establishments of the bogus BIZ
metallists and endorses the tepid, wat
cry and wabbling Denver resolution
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nothing as occasion may require, is in
a poor position to ridicule the truthful
statement that there is no hope for
free silver in the national Republican
party. Local sentiments on the ques-
ton amount TO but straw in the way
of the anti-silver blast of national Re
publicanism. That the majority in the
Democratic party are in favor of silver
restoration cannot be nationally de-
MED. That there are individual Demo-
Gratis, some of them men of national
repute and undoubted strength who
think we should wait for the co-opera-
ton of other nations is true. But that
is not the question. The presence of a
few silver Republicans in their party
does not prove the party to be silver
party, nor would the presence Of
few goldites in the Democratic party
prove 1t to be a monometallist party.
Beat the air and make mouths as it
may, the local rider Of two horses in
opposite gaits cannot escape from the
record of the Republican party which
shows it to be not only the demonetiz-
er of silver, but its deadly foe ever
since that party struck the white metal
down by foul blow. To look for sill
yer restoration from that party il like
hoping for aid from miser or looking
for light from Hades.