The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-21

mediate influence of Senator Carey on |
the silver question. 1t was indeed a |
great victory for the silver men when |
he was defeated for another term in |
the Senate. He has been one of the |
most potent factors against the edu- |
cation of the people of the east on the |
silver question. BY his attitude he has |
greatly aided in keeping number OF |
senators who had leanings toward free
silver from being converted into strong |
supporters of that principle
However, if the people OF Wyoming
have been congratulating themselves
that the fight is over they will be dis
abused. Such an impression may easily
have arisen because it has been the
custom Of the western free silver PEG
pie to underrate Carey. He is destined
to be a live factor in Wyoming politics
for many years to come. He is man
Of strong beliefs and curious in his
methods. When he seems to be doing
nothing he is most dangerous. When
he makes no ripple on the surface then
il is time to send a diver down to the
bottom of the political river to see
what operations are being carried on
there. He works in the depths His
| career in the Senate should furnish an
| object lesson on this point.
Leaving aside all question Of par
| tiSanship and disagreement with him
on the silver question, he makes a good
showing. He has seldom made speech
on the floor OF the Senate. He is not
| at all spectacular and is one of the
men who are hardly ever mentioned by
| the eastern newspapers or the press
! associations. Yet he is one of the most
! effective committee workers in Con-
gress.
In matters which did not take in
party principles he has been a power
as well on the Democratic as the Re
publican side of both houses 1t is
matter of record that measures which
| he has fathered have seldom been an
| tagonized on the floor. When they have
come up for consideration a few words
| have sufficed to set the wheels of lesis-
lation in working order and they have
! gone like clockwork. Bills of his re
[
[ the fate Of being piseonholed, but
! have been placed on the calendar with
remarkable CELEBRITY and with as re
markable CELEBRITY taken off the calen-
! dar and acted upon, and then worked
| out Of conference committee and to the
| President with equal speed,
In fact Carey has been almost
| of q nv Ia+
! is an admirer of the Wyoming sena
| tor and on one or two occasions the
two have snapped" favors as to
legislation. Scarcely anywhere in the
Senate is there place where Carey at
one time or another has not laid a
small wire. He has been one of the
really great manipulators Of the body.
| Absolutely silent as to his plans he has
done some very heavy work and left
behind him an impression that the Ia
Dor was almost infiniteSimal.
1t is on account of his peculiar man
ner Of working and his strong views
on the silver question that Wyoming
| is by no means free from his influence.
He is perfectly honest in his beliefs on
the silver question 1t has never been
| with him, so far as extends the opinion
| of the silver men who know him best.
| question OF subserViency to Wall
street or alliance with the eastern gold
bug element He has simply disagreed
with his constituency as to what will
| be for the best interests of their state.
| He holds that Wyoming is no more a
| silver state than is New York or Ohio.
| or any other state in the Union whose
resources are not largely Influenced by
the productionlof silver. Therefore he
| leaves out the purely local question as
| to the amount of benefit to be derived
from the mining industry and resolves
the question down to one of pure econ
omics.
4 He belongs to that class which be-
1 lieVes it would be wise to restore the
| bimetallic standard if all the com
merctal nations of the world
will come together on it. II
they should agree on fixed ratio he
\ believes by their united strength they
could keep that up. He does not be-
! lieve, though, that it would be posi-
bic for the United States, against the
opposition of the European commercial
nations, to maintain the parity between
the two metals.
Therefore Wyoming is not yet free
from discussion as to her future status
on the silver question. Underneath the
surface of the local Republican party
} an influence that had made itself felt in
the Senate at unexpected times will be
at work. Carey is untiring in his en-
ergy. His methods are to keep steadily
at work, counting even the most in
fnitesimal gains as well worth while,
and never cea5ing in his endeayors in
the face of the most stupendous obsta-
cles. He will be at home. Warren and
Clark will be at Washington most of
the time. Unless they are Watchful
they may return to their state some
day and find that they have been IN
dernined and the ground they thought
so secure is crumblinS under theil
feet. Carey is likely to be very much
alive politically for some time to come
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