The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-10
JONES CREATED TALK
IN WASHINGTON,
A Body Blow to the Republi-
cans of the Gold
Bug Pattern.
REED FLIRTING WITH
THE SILVER QUESTION.
HE is FOR THOMAS FIRST AND ALL
THE TIME.
One Ambition in Life Now Is to Re-
ceive the Nomination for the
Presidency Republicans Look
Upon the Desertion OF Jones as
Another Evidence of Serious
Weakening Within Their Hanks
In Fear and Trembling.


Washington, Sept. 9.-[Special.I
political sensation of the week has been
the remuneration by Senator Jones, of
Nevada, of the old Republican hulk and
his coming out as a Populist on the sill
yer issue. This is significant, in view
lof the fact that the free silver Repub-
llicans have claimed that their party
was becoming regenerated on the silver
Question. and in the campaign of 1896
would be found right in line on 1t in
favor of the west. The fact that Sena-
tor Jones has been Republican lead
ler, thoroughly en- rapport with the 9TH
Ter party leaders. makes his emphatic
declaration of loss of confidence in the
party very striking and fraught with
great deal of suggestion on which the
people should do some sober thinking.
In relation to the g. o. p, the senator
lis perfectly correct. All Tom Reeds CO.
lquetting now with the combination Of
the causes of free silver and protection
is done for the purpose of placing Tom
Reed at the head of the party as the
nominee in 1896. Once he gets it, he
will take care to conciliate the east by
making an emphatic declaration that
he is for free silver only when foreign
countries can be induced by his brag-
CART game of bluff to come out for it.
He is not honest. Undoubtedly Gamer
on and Teller are honest, in their ad-
vocacy of the white metal, but they
stand no more show of reaching the
presidential chair in the next election
than the present inhabitants of the
earth stand of receiving with due jubi-
lance an ambassador extraordinary and
plenlpotentiary from the planet Mars
lThe other candidates now looming up
before the Republicans are interna-
itonal agreement men and the free sill
lver voters have already learned that
TINS position is cloak for the gold
bugs.
AS to the Democratic party and sill
iver, Jones reasoning is fallacious. The
only reason that the Democratic party
has not remonetized silver is that in
every campaign since the demonetiza-
ton by the Republicans in 1873 they
have been faced by the conditions that
made them seek a candidate that could
carry New York and other eastern
states. They could find no solace in
the west That was black with Re
lpublicanism. The west would not yield.
the south could not afford to yield to
the Republicans without giving up
what they have been fighting for ever
since the war-white denomination in
| their states-and thus there was never
an unity of purpose between the atwo
sections, that, with unity, could have
carried their point and saved a great
| deal of needless suffering.
Senator Jones thinks that all the
free silver people should become Popu-
: lists and break loose from both of the
old parties. What would be their
course then in case there should be a
; failure on the part of either of the old
parties to elect a majority of presi-
Dental electors because of certain
: amount of Populistic success and the
election should be thrown for settle
. ment into the House of Representatives
) to be elected this fall? AS the constitu.
ton provides that only the two highest
} candidates in the electoral college
2 shall be voted for in the House and as
it is far from probable that in the mex
: election the Populists could make theil
candidate come into either the first OF
second place in this critical moment tht
) Populist members would find them
t selves compelled to choose between thu
3 Republican and Democratic candidates
! Who would be the candidates of thu
two old parties in case the west Should
turn to the Populists. The Democrat:
would have been forced, as before, tt
seek an alliance in the east, as there
would be no strength behind them i
they should select western or south
ern candidate and the Republicans
! from inclination and necessity, would
| have done the same. The consequence,
would be that the Populists would fine
Z. themselves in position in the Hous
where they had defeated a Democrats
alliance between the west and soutl
;. and, having forced the candidates from
: the east, compelled to choose between
I two single standard gold men.
1t is the best plan for the Democrat
e all over the west to make up thei
minds to stand behind such men a
: Matthews, of Indiana, Bland, of Mis-
souri,, Bryan, of Nebraska, and tn
! hundreds of their disciples who hav
4 determined that the first indication o
/ the requisite strength in the west viii
be the signal for declaration of free
dom by the Democrats of the south an
central states from the dictation of tn
= party of the east and the carrying o.
{ of a campaign that shall not be handle
3 by the nominees of the states tina
: cling to gold. Only that one allianc
0 can prove efficacious in restoring silve
: as one of the money metals of tn
: United States. No man who has sal
: that free silver shall be paramount il
{ deciding his vote has a right to ignor
the claims it makes for his support.
However, there is no doubt that it /
the determination of the western Re
r publicans to support the Democrat
ticket in 1896 in case that party nomi
l. mates free silver candidate and thei
g own party does not. Senator Jones
K action is but an indication of the fee
I ing that had made itself manifest
? | great many times during the two ses
j. sions of this Congress. Republican
e look on the desertion of Jones with
:. great deal of apprehension. while tn
t Democrats hail it as another evidenc
: that the Republican party of the Yves
= is tired of its close embrace of tn
d bigoted Republican party of New Eng
s land and that change is at hand.
e ATTACKED BY TRIBESMEN.
Zarzibar Sept 9.--Advices have reache
here from Xiv a, a German port on tt