The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-04-02
WHAT DOES HE wANTg

In another column of today's DIS
PATCH will be found an article signed.
"Optimist, +" for which we ask careful
reading. We have hardly space enough
left to answer the complaints set forth,
in our article today, but will again r e.
cur to the subject at an early date.
Under Mr.. Cleveland's leadership the
party has most certainly departed, in
SO far as he is concerned, from one of
the ancient landmarks of the party
faith, viz: the hard-moneY tenet. 0pti.
mist may claim that gold is hard
money. True, but not in the sense of
the ancient tenet. That meant gold
and silver upon perfect equality and
at the ratio Of l6 to L. The party has
broken its pledges only in regard TO
silver. The Chicago platform pledged
that the democratic party favored BIZ
metalism. What is bimetalism? Plain.
ly gold and silver both. How do we
preserve bimetalism? BY concurring
in the republican policy of the demon
itization of silver2 We, if our pledge
in this urespeet is upbroken, with
democratic president, lower house and
senate should be doing something to
remonetize the metal which alone viii
give US bimetalic currency. have we
done sO?, Optimist himself can make
no such claim. The money plank of
the Chicago platform if it meant any
thing, meant reconciliation. 1t was
either vile subterfuge or else we are
confronting broken pledge.
Is the party in the hands of the plu-
tocrsts? Since the passage of the seig-
niorsge bill by big democratic major.
ity in congress and approved by vast
majority of the democrats of the nation,
we believe, whose voice has the presi-
dent listened to? Was it not the voice of
the New York chamber of commerce,
mainly made up of the plutocrats of
Wall street? What is this save being
in the hands of the plutocrats? Were
0ptimist president would he not rather
obey the democratic majority in con-
gress than the minority of the party
inhabiting Wall street?
We are not disturbed by Optimist's
astonishment. A democratic paper
which dares not point out and protest
against the unfaithfulness of the party
or any member of it, even the presi-
do1t bsronalf 10 not +bo Govt &c - 10,
cratic paper The DISPATCH is. When
ever political critic meets an argu-
ment he cannot, or does not want to
understand, it is so easy to call it gen.
eralization, and that goes, of course.
We fear he generalizes himself when
he says the facts do not bear us out
and our predictions are untrue. We
fear that unless Mr.. Cleveland changes
his policy, or the party refuses to fol-
low him further into the gold bug
camp, the party is doomed.
How cheerfully we subscribe to the
declaration that Mr.. Cleveland is not
the democratic party, but if we con-
tinue blindly to follow him without
question or protest, as Optimist seems
to desire, he becomes to all intents and
purposes, the party, and whether Op-
timist likes it or not, we will be SO
judged. True, the members of con-
gress have shown their independence
in many ways, Of the president. but |
the little veto soon settles all that. and {
yet, when The DISPATCH condemns the K!
president and upholds congress, Op-
timist understands that it is going 7
either into the republican party, the
popuiist party or to Mrs. Leasism,
whatever that may be be, We are +
afraid Optimist has gone over TO the a
for that idea and if it |
does any good for him to get off that
little witticism, ali right, it doesn't
lessen our democratic self. esteem. even
q little bit.
Force bills and tariff bills are yery s
well in their way, or at least congress C
sional action upon them is, but what a
we need now, especially in the west. Is 3
relief. Take some action by which sill /.
yer will advance to dollar, or even S
,ighty-fve cents an ounce. and that act Z:
Ilone will get the party more votes. =
specially in Utah, than all the tariff tn
inkering and force bills we could beat ii
T pass, in thousand years. pII
Optimist seems anxious for the party %a ri
q Utah. We say to him that if con s1
ress would pass an act which would
ut silver to a dollar an ounce and in
uce Cleveland to sign it,it would make nc
lore democrats in Utah than we could an
lake were we to sing praises to Cleye I'M
md and congress forever. The re- IL
sal of the Sherman law has done on m,
ore to give Utah to republicanism an