The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-29
THE DENVER FIzzL e.


THE silver plank in the Denver plat
FORM if such the resolutions may be
called, is this:
We believe in the use of gold and
silver as money metals, maintained on
| a perfect parity and interconverubility
We do not believe that there will be a
permanent return of prosperity to our
country until full use and the highest
position of silver shall be restored, and
we favor such legislation as will bring
about this result
This is what was offered by the Utah
delegation, after declaration of the
disastrous effects of decentralization in
1873:
From this hour the two great watch
words OF the Republican party should
be the restoration Of protection and the
full reconciliation of silver, at ratio
of 16 to 1, without limit as to quantity.
Horace Greeley said, 1.-THE way to re-
sumo is to resume" and as his words
pointed the way, so it would accord
with the majesty and power of the TO-,
100000 of free men who people the Re
public for the executive Of the nation
to give the nations notice that after a
certain not-far-off, date, the minis of
the United States would be open to all
the silver offered, and that after that
date all contracts made in the United
States would be payable in either silver
or gold, at the option of the debtor.
Don Cameron's letter., which created
the sensation of the season, was sum-
med up in four words:
Protection and free silver"
Now compare what the convention
adopted with what it was urged to
adopt. 1t amounts to nothing less than
a reputation of the proposition for the
free coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to l." 1t amounts to no more than
straddle. 1t is framed with double
face. To the west it smiles for free but
not unlimited silver; to the east it
locks grim forsan enlarged but restrict
ed use of silver coin as subsidiary to
gold It is the Ohio plank planed and
polished for the occasion.
The adoption of the Utah platitudes
about protection and the cause of the
"calamities upon our people," and the
rejection of the Utah resolution as to
silver, make the latter more marked
and significant. 1t says distinctly:
Your full RECOMMENDATION of silver at
16 to l won't CO.,
There was an element of consistency
in the course pursued by the convention
as to the Utah resolutions which is
worthy of notice They contained
blank contradiction, denoting the source
from which they came, complete self
refutation common in similar produc-
tons with which readers of a Utah
Republican paper are familiar. The
convention was too shrewd to adopt
both the opposite propositions. They
were these:
First, the cause of all the calamities
of the country was attributed to the
Democratic administration. Next, they
were all traced to the demonetizing act
of 1873 which was the work of the Re
publieans The convention swallowed
the first but threw up and cast out
the second; they entirely disagreed.
Now, reading carefully that crafty
lodging of the main issue before the
country, what ground is left for the
claim of President Tracey, that ''the
future of silver can be safely entrusted
to the protecting care of the Republican
party?"
The Republicans here are greatly dis
appointed. We are not. We did not
anticipate any other result. It is but
fair to say that on the silver question
both parties in Utah occupy similar
ground. But the indications are strong
to the effect that the claim of our Re
publican friends that to their party we
must look for silver restoration, is
entirely unfounded and as baseless as
most of their assertions and so-called
arguments.
The Republican convention at Denver
was like a juvenile Fourth of July
celebration. 1t consisted of fixing and
cracking, sky-roclet oratory and blaz-
ing blue lights, but ended in a big
hurrah and cloud of smoke.