The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-26
WHAT a PITIABLE THING TO SEE,

IL II unere is any dirtier record of any
liable thing to see it."
We scarcely need to say that is from
the Salt Lake Tribune. The elega nee
and sweetness of the language nro-
claim that fact, equally with its az
qulslte modesty and sublime trith II
Is IN reference to the record of tba
democratic party on the silver nues-
Coh' and particularly the course of
/ cleveland in relation to it. The actual
record Of the Party shown. by its votes
IN congress on silver, is carefully
avoided. '''
Now granting that Grover Cleveland
has exhibited greater hostility to silver
restoration than even the extreme sill
yer advocates of his party expected
Granting that the Sherman purchase
provision was repealed without anv
Tree coinage bill as a substitute. Grant
ing that the Democratic Congress did
not in sufficient numbers stand I'M
boldly for the restoration of silver
now does the silver record of the partv
compare with that of its opponents?
Let US see.
me very wrong which the Demo-
Gratis are blamed for not undoing in q
single Congress, was originally the
evil work of the Republicans. The
Tribune recently stated:
The Republican party is the one
that has done the real business of cur
government in thirty-five years.
1t is true as stated by The Herald.
ana not controverted though jeered at
by the Tribune, that the Republicans
mad ample opportunity and full power
Tor twenty years after demonetizine
silver TO restore and remonetize it.
But the record shows that instead of
doing that, they persistentIy and vio-
Iently fought every Democratic bill in
troduced for that purpose. If it was
dirty" for the Democratic party 10
fail in passing a free coinage bill in
Two years of Congressional power
how much ''dirtier' was it for the Re
publican party in twenty years of
that power not to clean I'D its dirty
work of 1878?
The record shows, further. that in
the Congress of '93 and '94 q far
greater proportion of Republicans (
voted for the unconditional repeal Of /
the purchase provision and against /
free coinage of silver, than of Demo- /
Gratis in both Houses. If it was dirty
Tor minority Of Democrats to oppose
tree coinage in that Congress, how
much 'dirtier' was it for a majority
OF Republicans TO vote against it?
The Herald has several times pub-
lished the figures, showing the votes
of the two parties in Congress on the
silver question, from the time the Re
publieans demonetized the white
metal until the last vote taken upon
The question OF free coinage. What
ever Of dirt" the Tribune can at
tribute to the Democrats can only be
made 10 stick as to a small minority.
while as to the Republicans. eouitv
will make it stick upon a large ma
iority
Therefore, the ''pitiable thing" which
he Tribune walls about is the .dirtier
'ecord" of its own party, including its
)wn record for it has wriggled and
Ta'bbled and crawIed on the ground
before the party lash on this question
1900 - nus NONEI GU llSEI WIN any, /
hing but cleanliness and glory.
Yelling for free silver at the hands
# the Democrats and throwing dirt
It them for not granting it in che
hort lease of power, it has endorsed
he straddle of Republicans on the {
question, approved and rejoiced over {
heir silence when they were expected
o speak out, and endorsed and apolo- :
lied for twenty years OF Republican Z
ostility to silver after smashing it, 1
o use Tribune term. in 1873. I
If there is anything "dirtier'' in the $
7ay Of a record than that of the Re- !,
ublican party on silver, it is the rec a
I'd of the Salt Lake Tribune, with its /
ps and downs. its blunders and its q
rags, its dirt-throwing at the Demo- q q
rats and its officiating when it came r
. action. And what a pitiable thing a
, see" it isl t