The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-09-11
SEPT, IL, 1894
CRISP FOR SILVER.

The childishness of the present cam
psign may be understood when we re-
call the fact that in the state OF
Georgia there are two gentlemen occu-
pying exalted stations in the public
service, one of whom is an ardent free
silver advocate, no less than Mr..
Speaker Crisp and the other, the Sec
retary of the interior, Is equally ardent
as g gold standard man. Thank God,
we are all free silver here and so there
is no discord on that subject. 1t Ia
different there. But here if q news
paper wants TO deal the other fellow
lunder be SHES few at the secretary
or If be wants TO rub the free silver
men bit he fings rock or two over
at the speaker. It is childish, as We
have said;it is worse,it is weak and un-
manly. Mr.. Smith has never ranked
high in Georgia as an intellectual
force, while Crisp has for many years
lead the intellectual forces of that
state. There is another circumstance
connected with this matter which it
would be will to recall. MIR. Crisp rep
resents great majority Of the people
on this proposition while Hoke Smith
has as followers the merest of mere
corporal's guard, The people of Georgia
have had no sort of test yet but when
ever anything ap proximating a test
has been projected there have been
about 81 free silver votes to every gold
bug in the old state. Her people are
democratic. They believe in the money
of the ages, the money of the poor.
These Mr.. Crisp truly represents, Mr..
Smith has never represented his peo-
pie and never will. He represents Mr..
Cleveland alone. He is entitled to all
the consideration that circumstance
will bring to him, but no more. When
il comes to representing the democ-
racy of the south or any of the states
of that section, then Mr.. Smith will
lose character. When they want one
to mouth their sentiments, we know
no man who can do that better than
Crisp. The south has meyer been more
solid on any proposition than she has
been on free coinage, simply because
ehe liz nothinn if Hhe is not FREE silu-yl
Take the propositions upon which
the southern states are predicating
their permanent policies and there is
no Rppreciable difference between
them and the western states and ter
ritories Within the lines of democratic
policies is contained every principle
which will develop, build up and force
the west and south forward. The
trade conditions surrounding both sec-
tIons are identical, OF nearly so. hence
we do no violence by bringing them to-
Eethsr in either political or business
relations. Their sympathies are bound
up together, but when this occurs,
when they act. will commence the first
systematic efforts of these sections to
use the advantages God has Himself
given them for their own good.
The south is teeming with the products
which we cannot produce, while Utah
on the other hand is teeming with
those products which the south must
have. This is natural alliance and |
If we have the wisdom to make it they
two will give the law, at least the com
merical law, to the balance of the ma
tion and it will be wholesome for all.
We will find no sort of difficulty in
sfilisting with Mr.. Crisp while we
meyer could, never can blend our inter
ests trade and politics with the school
of men to which Mr.. Smith adheres.