The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-27
PROVO CITY. AUG. .27. 1894
EXCEPT In kEPUBLICANIsM.

There is q class of men who cry aloud
daY and night, in season and out, on
the streets and upon the housetops,
''there is no hope for silver save in the
the republican party" To this crowd
belongs the Patton OF Ogden who went
blundering out from the democratic
lines the other day and who is now
hovering about between the lines of
the populIsts and the republicans, none
apparently caring where he finally falls,
If really there is no hope for silver save
in its restoration by the republican
party then indeed may we take long
last farewell of the money of the
ages and the money of the poor, We
do not seek the assassin when we desire
relief. Neither do we seek the republi-
can party when we are in earnest 10
restore silver. There is not an intelli-
gent republican in Utah, Including the
Tribune, but knows, to absolute GER
tainty, that the republican party, as
national organization, is the bitter,
hostile and blood-shirstv foe of silver
and all the industries which depend
upon its restoration to its old time
money functions. Worse still, they
know to an absolute certainty that as
a national party the republicans will
hold that policy while time lasts or
while the repu blican party exists.
1t is the lineal descendant of the
several parties which opposed the
democratic in the early years of the
life of the nation. When the demo-
cracy was carefully guarding the inter
ests of nard coin money in every one
of its written platforms, the republi-
can party, or rather its progen tors.
were battling for federal and state
banks as against hard money. 1t is
thus the legitimate foe by blood of sill
yer. 1t comes legitimstely by its hos
tility to silver, In this way 1t worked
until emboldened by partial success it
at last reached up and in 1873 it finally
delivered the final blow which
laid the white metal prone in
the dust as one of the mere commodi-
ties of commerce. This destroyed over
one halt of the money of commerce, and
fSTfd times. If we are really In earn
est in the claim that we are seeking to
find the cause of the present stagna-
tion of business, the present hard
times, we need not look any farther. Here
it is in the original act which decapitulat-
ed silver, and surely no one will deny
that the republican party did that.
Now then how an honest and welI-in-
formed advocate of remonetization, or
one who is honestly seeking for the
causes of the hard times prevailing in
order to apply remedy can vote this |
year in Utah for the republican party |
candidates passes our ken completely. |
Any political party seeking to find
measures of relief from the hard times
occasioned by the republican act of de-
monetlzation must inevitably strike
for free coinage. 1t is true that the
of tariff reform we have Sc
cured will help soma. 1t is a step
ahead and in the right direction, but
only complete restoration of silver will
restore the good times OF the past. Now
here we have two parties seeking this
in Utah. The republican
party, the power which originally de
monetized silver and the democratic
parry which opposed with might and
main the policy of demonetization and
which is today, by vast majority,
still in favor of reconciliation. Which
Will the people of this silver state I
rust? Which is the most reasonably
pit to work out the relief desired? We
annot help the conclusion that the !
Jain put for the republican party is 6
he sheerest nonsense ever sought to f
De crammed down the throats of the
people.