The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-29
PROVO CITY. JUNE %. Il
REPUBLICANS AND SILVER.

The silver plank IN the Denver plat
form is as follows:
We believe in the use of gold and silver as
money metals, maintained on perfect parity |
and interconvernbility. We do not oelleve
prosperity TO our country until the 1ull use |
and highest position of silver shall be restored I
and we favor such legislation as VIII bring |
about this result.
This was evidently a compromise,
and SO much WAS won only alter long |
and hard fight, Taken the way Utah's |
delegates constTue it, the declaration
Is by far the most pronounced In faVoT |
of silver of any heretofore made by any |
general body OF republicans. Its OBJ |
iectionable point is that eastern men |
can deny the validity of the western |
mems construction. But this Will not
be done for long. AT the east the sll |
yer sentiment is growing among re-
publicans in all parts of the country;
pretty soon we may have to sit on the
coat tails of eastern republicans to hold
them in. We judge that this matter
of the growth of silver sentiment was
relied upon by the silver men as quite
as strong an element for silver as Inc
declaration itself. The declaration is
great advance, with that We shall al
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The Tribune is taken and accepted
IS the mouthpiece ofthe republican
party of Utah; it, and the utterance OF
the republican league of the nation are
sufficient to bind the republicans of
Utah and the entire west. The plank
calls for perfect party Of the metals,
vet mentions no ratio. ANY lower
ratio THAI Is to would be foreign to
every purpose of the pro silver men of
the weEt today, and would constitute a
mockery of them as it would also be OF
the Tribune itself which has always
stood for l6 to i, we say this to Its
credit. Nor does this plank say one
word about free coinage. Highest
position of silver? Suppose the voice
of the eastern republicans is listened
to. John Sherman for instance, then 81
TO would be the highest position sill
yer could attain. Would the Tribune
be satisfied? Would the pretended tree
silver republicans of Utah be satisfied?
Tney would vote the ticket enVen If Al
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sorry kind of comfort for Utah
republicans who call so lust
lily for free coinage and whU claim
to be as ardent for free silver as the
democrats are. We never before have
seen more unfrankness compressed
into as few WORDS as is this untrank,
impudent and misleading paragraph.
1t is really pititul to note the deep
disgust of the Tribune. 1t knows down
deep in its own heart that plank indi.
Gates no advance in sentiment In re-
publican ranks on the vital question of
free coinage, since the day the Mime
apolis convention adjourned. Now
will the Tribune and the republicans
support the party, support the plat
form with this shameful plank in il?
They may say that it is not the plank
that will fix the pace for next fall.
But to this we answer that the Denver
convention closely represents the opln-
ions of the national republican masses
and it is the most liberal concession
that the silver men in that party will
ever be likely 10 secure. The Tribune
declares above that it represents com
promise. If SO what split on silver
it represents, and how strong must
have been the gold bugs in the Denver
convention to be able to force such a
compromise upon the reputed silver
elements in the convention. Outside |
Of Old Man Goodwin, we doubt if there
were a score of good free coinage 16 to
republicans in that body. We do not
know how the Utah delegates construe
it but we do know that if they cannot
show something better than this, that
party will not carry off the palm of
victory in this territory this fall.
When the Tribune says this is the
most liberal republican declaration
yet made by any general body of re-
publicans, it confesses to a general
hostility in the republican party to
silver, which is to all interests and
purposes, true, true to the letter. But
in Gods dear name how much friend.
ship does this plank express for silver,
for the silver money in use before
1878? The east and all other sections
will deny the validity of the western
mems construction, TO be sure they
will, no sensible man Can do anything
else. This is indeed 6ne foundation
for a Utah free silver platform.
We are sorry for Judge Goodwin,
and just how he is to make a campaign
this fall with such a declaration star
ing him in the face, we do not see.
How are the eastern and western re-