The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-30
"THE RECORD" ONCE MORE.

/ The Democratic record on the silver
question sits very uneasily on the
stomach of the editor of our morning
contemporary. He cannot digest it but
is continually throwing it up in mutt
lated and disguised form.
While fully aware that the Republi-
can party is not only responsible fol-
/ the demonstration which he has
claimed is the cause and source Of all
the poverty, distress. and restitution
which have come through falling
prices, the destruction of industries
and the unemployment of labor, but
also for the failure to restore silver to
its former position; and while assert
ing that silver decentralization is the
cause of the increase of pauperism.
insanity, celibacy and suicide with
other crimes. he yet makes desperate
attempts to relieve the Republican
party from the odium attaching to it
from its slaughter of the white metal
and endeavors to charge it all upon
the Democratic party.
When the facts are presented,
backed up by the record and by
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falls into rage and responds with
vile epithets as though they would
answer in place of arguments. Once
in a while it becomes necessary to
quote the gentleman against himself.
Not very long ago an Evanston
paper, stating that Judge Goodwin
was advertised to speak in that town
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copied the following from an editorial
in the Salt Lake Tribune:
"Silver is the dominant thought.
The Republican party by its represen-
tatives in Congress has shown itself
basely, idiotically, recreant on the sill
YER question. without sense or party
advantage, indeed contrary to both.
The Republican representa- tives could
at any stage of the day carried the day
They could have forced coinage at 20
TO l. They could have secured it at
16 to 1. They could have defeated the
Wilson repeal bill. To say right on
the heels of failure to do any of these
things, and just as the Republicans
have made an anti-silver showing so
radically and inexcusably worse than
the Democrats have made, that now
it is the opportune time to set the
Republican ball rolling shows
singular obtuseness of mind
What has he to say now on the ques-
ton of comparisons? Only a day or
two ago. speaking of one alleged fail
ure of the Democrats in Congress to
do their duty on the silver question,
he wanted to know if there was "any
dirtier record than theirs. We will
lot him answer the question himself.
He says the Republicans have made
an anti-silver showing radically and
inexcusably worse than the Democrats
have made" He is correct for once.
When called upon in Evanston to
see if he would stand by his own
record on this question he replied:
''The editorial quoted was written
while 1 was two thousand miles away
But / don't go back on a word of it.
If [ had been home 1 should probably
have written it much stronger"
Thus both the Tribune and its editor
put the stamp of infamy
on the Republican party for it's treat
ment of the silver question. How
much use is it then. for either of them
to take up dirt" every day, and
throw it at the Democratic Darty for
its repeal of the purchase clause of the
Sherman act? They both declare that
the repeal bill could have been de-
feated by the Republicans in Congress,
and that they could at any time have
forced the passage of a free coinage
bill. That ought to be enough to
close the mouth of that paper against
the Democrats as to silver forever.