The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-09
POLITICAL NOTES.

In formally renouncing his allegiance
TO the Republican party, apd coming out
as square toed Populist, Senator Jones
of Nevada displays a degree of honesty
which might be profitably initiated by
other United States senators who profess
10 De democrats, but who are protection
lists at heart and who have no right to
muster under the banner of tariff reform
Kansas City Ctar.
Senator Jones has acted in a manly
way. He knows his old party is against
silver and he says so. The "conserva-
tive" Democratic senator's knew their
party was for greater reform of the tar
if than they. They would have COM
manded greater respect had they formal
ly renowned their allegiance to Democ-
racy.
The action of Senator Jones of Nevada
In leaving the Republican party to ally
himself with the Populists is exactly
what was to have been expected 1t was
the one logical course for him to pursue.
Not until men shall gather figs of this
ties will silver be remonetized by the Re
publican party and they waste their time
and their efforts who strive to advance
the cause of binetallism through the
agency of the party of plutocracy.-Chi-
cago Times Dem.).-
The hope for silver is in the Democratic
party. Senator Jones left the Republican
party because there is no hope for it
there. The silver men of the West will
not forget this.
1t is an Indicator of the strength and
direction of the. partisan tide that the
immense Republican majority In Tues
days election in Vermont is of national
significance. *0The result in such
states as Alabama and Arkansas, where
the Republicans have either no organiz-
alton or where their votes are not count
ed, are of no value as partisan pointers,
but in the states above Mason and Dix
on,s old line the conditions are radically
different, and therIverdict is of national
importance.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Rep).
The workings of the Vermont mind are
of so much more Importance than the
workings of the Alabama and Arkansas
mind. 1t seems that nothing but fish go
into the Republican net.
The state of Tennessee owes it to itself
to see that swift punishment follows the
frightful crime of this mob, a crime not
against the lives of these six defenSelesS
negroes only, but against the honor and
liberties of the whole people. Whenever
a lynching occurs in community re-
spect for law is lessened, and life and
property are not so secure in that COM
munlty as they were before.-Washing-
ton Star.
While the direct stigma of this lynch
ing rests on Tennessee it is also a blot
on American civilization.
Merely to have carried Vermont would
not be matter of Republican boasting
The Green Mountain state is safely Re-
publican at all times. But to have car
votes in excess of the Republican ma
Jority in the presidential year of 1892 is
an event worthy of notice. The belief
is that the Republican candidate is elect
cd hy- 1oy sD,,t
has been cast.-Chicago Inter- Ocean
Rep).
A Republican victory in Vermont has
about as much significance as Demo-
cratic victory in Georgia.
we are not in a position to diagnose
the case as we haven't had our fingers
upon Vermont's pulse lately. But, if we
remember correctly, Vermont also show
ed a revulsion, or something of that sort.
two years ago when she went Republican
by an increased majority and scored AN
other victory for protection" We have
lost faith in Vermont as national in
dicator ever since the tidal wave of 1892
Chicago Dispatch Qnd).
The Vermont indicator only indicates
that that state is still hide-bound by pro-
lection.
To Mr.. German and Mr.. Brice the
country owes much. The shock which
has fallen upon us is light compared with
what would have followed the success
of the blow aimed by the fanatical free
traders of the South. And to these in
telIgent and courageous sena tors we are
indebted for the little prosperity left us.
New York Commercial Advertiser
Rep.).
The Republican party owes them much;
the country. nothing.
1t is, of course, as easy a matter for a
thriftless man to get into debt on a farm
as In town. No amount or kind of leg
islation can bring prosperity to men who
are incapable of deserving it. The farm
er who leaves his fields uncared for while
he goes off to attend meetings and PASS
resolutions in favor of cheap money!
and other delusIons is sure to get into
rouble.-Washington Post.
Not one of the least evils of protection
has been its effect upon the minds of the
people. 1t has taught them to look to
the government for prosperity and not
to their own efforts.
1t seems a pity that, after the Demo-
Gratis have generously contributed 50
much campaign literature to the Renuh-
any that will do for their own use.-Bos-
ton Journal (Rep).
What better campaign literature could
the Democrats ask than the Mckinley
bill? Under it the business of the coun-
try has suffered as never before.
Perhaps the dependence upon the bar
rel as a prime factor of success NAV
prove an illusion and a snare The pub
lie is weary OF barrels, from susax '----