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

In another column of today's DIS
PATCH will be found an article signed
"Optimist," for which weask a careful
reading. We have hardly space enough
left to answer the complaints set forth,
in our article today, but will again 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. Opt.
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 silver? We, if our pledge
in this urespect is upbroken, with a
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-
tocrats? Since the passage of the seig-
niorage 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 |
establishment. A democratic paper
which dares not point out and protest |
against the unfaithfulness of the party |
or any member of it, even the presi-
dent himself, is not the sort of demo-
cratic paper The DISPATCH is. When
ever a political critic meets an argu-
ment he cannot, or does not want to
understand, it is SO easy to call it a 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, be becomes to all intents and
purposes, the party, and whether On \
tlmist likes it or not, we will be SO 1
judged. True, the members of con- I
yress have shown their independence 7
n many ways, Of the president. but b
he little veto soon settles all that, and a
yet, when THE DISPATCH condemns the n
president and uphoIds congress. On "
imist understands that it is going t
either into the republican party. the Y
'opniist party or to Mrs. Leasism y
whatever that may be be, We are te
.frald Optimist has gone over TO the al
'platterblotch for that idea and if it P
Ices any good for him to get off that u
title witticism, ali right, it doesn't 81
essen our democratic self. esteem, even
little bit. y
Force bills and tariff bills are very ST
7ell in their way, or at least congress co
ional action upon them is, but what &C
'e need nov, especially in the west. Is P Ps
elief. Take some action by which sill /;
er will advance to dollar, or even Sa
ghty-hYe cents an ounce, and that act -
lone viii get the party more votes ~,
specially in Utah, than all the tariff trs
nkering and force bills we could beat The
pass, in a thousand years, pic
optimist seems anxious for the party r ml
Utah. We say to him that if con. s9r
ess would pass an act which would
It silver to 8 dollar an ounce and in
ICE Cleveland to sign it,it would make =. I,
ore democrats in Utah than we could and
Ike were We to sing praises to Cleye- ing
I'd and congress forever. The re- 1t d
Il Of the Sherman law has done W. " u.
re to give Utah to republicanism and