The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-08
PROVO CITY. JUNE
THE OHIO PLATFORM.

Perhaps the trainers OF the Ohio re-
publican platform are humorists. If
so, the stupenduous joke perpetrated
when they voted confidence in venera-
tion and respect for j ohm Sherm an, and
at the same time called for bimetalism,
is accounted for only as Joke of the
highest and baldest proportions. John
sherman and real himetalism are in
congruous propositions. They will no
more mix than will oil and water. But
perhaps the trainers of that precious
platform have had a slight inkling of
what all the world already knows, that
by far the larger number of Ohio re-
Dublicans love John Sherman for his
extreme gold standard principles. The
balance of the crowd favor John Sher-
mans kind Of bimetalism which con-
sists of silver and gold on a ratio of
thirty to one, 1t would require a six
horse mule team to haul enough of
Ohio's bimetalic silver dollars to pay
for three days entertainment at the
Knutsford. So Utah bimetalic repub-
Hcans flor there are q few of them)
can see just how much encouragement
there is in Ohio for the brethren who
hope to catch votes in this territory
this fall by this same bimetalic bait,
shipped all the way from Ohio to tickle
the capacious ears OF that wing of the
republican party residing within the
shadows Of Utah's silver ribbed noun
talns, The best that John Sherman
contem plated for the white metal
money of the ages. was a mere subsid-
iary relation to gold, the money of the
plutocrats. Dimes, quarters and halves
is the biggest money that silver is
worthy to be fashioned into and these
only in sums of five or at most, ten dol
lars, on a legal tender A Wanion upon
such bimetalism as this and such BIZ
metalists as John Sherman, Bill Nc
KinleY or the Ohio republican conven-
tion.
Let the true free coinage people
of Utah, even of the republican faith,
take care that this sort of trlckery be
not crammed down their free coinage
l6 to l thrOats as the real bimetaIism.
Already are the republican papers of |
Utah shouting their peans and Strain
ing their little throats over this same
Ohio platform and the first gum re-
verberations of the opening campaign, |
from Ohio. Poor Blaine's recipro-
city doctrines are ruthlesslY dug |
up to gild the John Sherman
brand of bimetalism, SO that,
now and then, here and there, may |
be found ready made ass of a sufi-
ciently dense character that he will be |
able to gulp down the nauseous dose. |
1t wont work. The Mckinley law is
the best protection the laborer, the |
farmer or the small dealer has ever
had, asserts this lovely platform. God |
pity protection-republican protection
if the Mckinley law is the best it
can do.
A hypocritical slap on the back is
tipped to the national grange and
it to the populists and all other
forms of unattracted patriotism. In
deed is this platform gaudy affair for
western miners, and farmers. The
sheep men are similarly smiled upon
while the working men and farmers
catch CLINT Of sunlight from this
most b beautifuIly unfrank utterance of
Ohio republicans, Indeed are the re.
publicans Of Utah welcome to all the
aid and comfort they can extract from
his platform, written and adopted by
The character republican state west
# the Alleghanies. John Sherman
md his 'bimetalism" offered to the
rushed people of the silver producing
rest as an encouragement to vote the
epublican ticket,ls sight to move the
DDS to laughter.