The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-03

THE TRIBUNE's WET BLANKET.

The Denver convention in its brief,
dishonest and unfrank silver plank has
thrown wet blanket over that rotten
old party in Utah. Here the sharp
leaders Of that party tamong them
Judge Goodwinl had started out
boldly challenging the democracy on
the record of the two parties on this
subject. The Tribune, one of the
sblest free silver papers in the entire
west, began a course which If persisted
in TO the end, must have proven dan
gerous to us. But since the return of
Its venerable editor from Denver it is
as dumb on this question of silver, as
though it had lain in the pyramid of
Cheops ever since the first of the Ptole-
mics was placed there. The ardent
pro-silver republicans there are few OF
them here) are asking the troublesome
questions: What is the matter? Why
Is our champion suddenly grown dumb?
Have the eastern bosses spoken? And
is the east again to throttle us OF the
west as it did so shamefully at Mime
apolis? Answered honestly and frankly
the ruin Of republicanism in Utah
would be accomplished. Even the gal
liant old champion of silver feels the
clutch of the gold bugs of the east upon
his throat. He qusils before the power
of New York's stolen gold and after
battling like hero for many years for
free silver, he is now compelled, as the
slave is, to silence the silver notes
which, like those of the bugle in war,
were wont Go call the dauntless to &C
tion, and he now sits with his silyered
honored head bowed in sorrow and
shame, that the party to which he has
given the best years of his enthusiastic
manhood is found to be false, unworthy
and unfaithful. Up to this moment
his battle cry was victory. Now it is
desparing prayer for strength to sus-.
tain in patience another crushing de-
feat.
The Tribune does not relish the posi-
tion of defense into which it is forced
by this revealment of the party policy
at Denver. 1t was wont in the old
days to call the faithful under the
banner of Bayard, where the battle
-'o " Irr rags IN - = * -
less hasa as.r~s aOF rear antt.-, -
blow at its old time enemy or the faith
of its boyhood as of its hard-hitting
manhood. The glory of the champion
has departed, land it was the hand of its
own party which has struck the blow.
The Tribune is manly and therefore
sensitive. 1t will never again cry
havoc, and let loose the dogs of war. 1t
will follow tamely and submissively the
policy marked out for it by the bosses
in the east, even, though it knows that
fair young Utah pines for the silver
which is to quicken her march to pros
peritv and to her proper place at the
head of the column of prosperous
western states. Indeed is this partic
ular wet blanket an uncomfortable |
garment just now for the Tribune. |
Under its free coinage leadership here
tofore it has taught the republicans the |
value, TO them, of this same great doc
trine. the doctrine of democracy. These
men now value the prosperity which |
free silver will bring to them infinitely
more than they will, or do, value the
OF every other tenet of repub-
lican faith. Poor old Trib., poor dear
old Goodwin, now that the evil days
of shame haYe come to ye both, we
sorrow without hope for you, unless
indeed, ye both take shelters with the
democracy, the only free coinage in
huepce, at least, in Utah.