The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-06-06
PROVO CITY. il
THE COMING TEST.

Next year will apply test to the
free silver men such as they have never
yet been subjected to. There are now
hundreds of free coinage men in the
lead of the hosts, who, during the last
national campaign, had no identity on
that subject outside of and away from
the platforms Of the two parties which
led IN the campaign, Mr., Dan Voor
hees, John c.. Crisp, David Bennett
Hill and many others were rated free
coinage men, but Mr.. Cleveland had
as much claim to be so rated as they
had. He ran on the stradling platform
and they all supported him. If free
coinage men, they had surely forgotten
Mr.. Clevelard's letter after his first
election and before he was inaugI-
rated. In '96 this will not 90. An
explicit declaration will be made in
the platform and free coinage men will
be asked for explicit approval or ex-
plictt dissent. The half way declara
tiOn Will not hold positive men any
longer, After the next campaign it
will not be necessary for Mr.. Voor-
hees or Mr.. Crisp to make declarations
or to write letters so that the people
may understand what their rePl senti
ments on reconciliation are.
Next year such free coinage men,
republicans, as Senators Teller and
Wolcott will be on the stump as ante
convention free coinage men, and il
the republican national convention
nominates such "free coinage" man
as John Sherman, Bill Mckinley, or
Allison, they will be found supporting
the free coinage democratic candidate.
If not this, they will no longer speak
with authority to the free silver west
on any subject. The test next year
will fix men definitely on this question.
The mere lip business will be over
with. and men only whose hearts are
in the great enterprise will be called
the friends of silver after November
'96, nor much after the national
republican convention adjourns. We
believe Mr. Teller is an ardent free
silver man, but he is SO sleek, so suave
and quiescent that we have always felt
just little uneasy and little nervous
about seeing competent test applied,
and as for Mr.. Ed Wolcott We have as
yet to see declaration from him on
the reconciliation of silver, which en-
tirely satisfies US. We haYe men, also,
here In Utah, in both parties we fear,
who are just as cloudy and as uLcer-
tain on this subject. However, there
are not many, but there are some, and
they may rest assured that the tests
applied here will be as severe as those
which will settle and fix the silver
status of Messrs. Teller and WOlcott in
Colorado next summer.
There must be no more skulking, no
more lodging, no more doubt. The
battle for the very life's blood of the
west, for the money of the poor, for
the chance of the industrious workers
of the whole country, is on, will be on
then, and the men who are to receive
the loyal support OF these poor and
working men must show up in a better
way than they have eyer yet done.
They must be real down, unequiyocal
free silver men, resumptionlsts with
out doubt or the shadow of uncer-
tainty. We think we can already
promise a straight democratic declar-
alton in the national platform of the
democratic party. If it contains that,
then not all the plutocrats on earth
can prevent the triumphant election of
the candidates upon it. Ii it does not
and straddles or is unfrank and equivo-
cal it will be beaten beyond the shad
ow of doubt, and we do not hesitate
to say that it ought to be so beaten.
The time for trifing has past. The
democrats of '96 must be silver demo
Gratis as their forefathers were.