The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-07
PROVO CITY. JUNE !, 1894
CLOTHED AND In His RIGHT
MIND.

Nothing has given TIE DIsPATCH
sincerer pleasure than has the late
change of front by the Herald on the
silver question. We have felt ever
since we have been in Utah that some
thing was wrong with the democracy.
We knew that the party of Jefferson
was the hard money party, the coin
party of the constitution, of the ages
and of the poor. We have also felt
that the platform of '92 was either an
unfrank declaration OIL else it was be-
ing violated In the interests of the gold
kings of the east and of Europe. We
could zee that silver was the leading
interest of Utah as it was and is of all
the states and territories of the west,
and to find here a great paper, demo-
cratic to the core on every other pro-
position, standing with The enemies of
democracy for the gold standard, or at
least defending gold standard admin
istration-was a keen disappointment
to us. We reasoned that the people
inbabiting the smiling valleys of Utah,
shut in by vast mountain ranges,
scanned and traversed in every direc
tion by rich silver veins, ought natur-
ally to be free silver people. We be
gan earnestly to inquire why democrats
were luke warm on this vital question.
1t did not take us long to determine
that fealty to free coinage was cOnsid-
cred treason to Cleveland. While we
reasoned that an individual democrat
might Detray silver, silver could never
betray the democracy. From the time
the party had being the safety of sill
yer and the partY's devotion to the full
double standard, silver and gold on a
Just ratio, has been one of the leading
tenets of the democratic faitA and it
has been stated and restated in every
party platform written since the first.
With these facts and memories before
US we could only look upon the atti-
tude of lukewarmness maintained by
the leading democratic influence in the
territory with apprehension, and as a
mistake ofvast proportions.
These reflections will make clear the
JOY we feel in this change in the Her
aid. 1t has at last risen to a level
with the requirements of the situation
and from now on until proud victory
crowns our standards, nothing can ef-
feet the harmany which insures the
party an eternal triumph in this
grand new state which we are building
up here. Our foes will hear this an
nouncement only with fear and appre-
hension. They unders tAnd we'll the
force and effect of the illogical situa-
tion in which the democracy was placed
and they know equally well what
power, what force unifcation of the
democracy on this point will give US.
They dread it; it rings the death knell
of their every hope of securing the
permanent control of fair, silver stud
ded Utah. They, while the debase-
ment of silver was wrought by the re-
publican party. in this territory,
were careful to open for silver. No one
even heard republican paper charge
that fealtY to silver was treason to re-
publicsnism here, albeit that is just
what it was and is.
We willingly turn from all this to
consider the brilliant future opened by
the change this most happy position
assumed by the Herald indicates for
the democracy of Utah. We may now
challenge and defy our foes, whereas,
before, this sinister and inharmonious
situation left us in doubt and uncer.
tainty. 1t is not necessary that we
discredit Mr.. Cleveland on any other
point of policy, unless, indeed, we may
be inclined to grumble at the tagging |
of tariff reform as well as the halfway
reform only contemplated by the bill at
present before congress.
Well done for, and welcome the
Herald to the Tree coinage forces with
in the body of the great democracy.
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