The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-01
THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE.

| Inc new. SQlCdSO lO4li-
Gle, has put in an appearance. II makes
fine showing. Twelve pages Of clear
print contain a great variety of news.
and the editorial page is filled with
we'll written comments. AS the only
Democratic paper in the great city of
Chicago, it ought to receive the sup
port that is essential to its success,
financially and otherwise. The adver-
Using columns do not indicate any
great rush of business. twenty-five
out of eighty-four columns are scarcely
sufficient to show great eagerness on
the part of business firms to greet
the public through it's pages.
However. this is its first issue, and
subsequent numbers may improve in
that particular and also in the proof
reading. which discloses a few mis-
takes that also give evidence of haste
in the make up of the forms.
That Chicago should have been
without a daily Democratic paper pre-
vious to the publication of the Chron-
icle is not creditabl to the party. As
referred to by the Chronicle it is still
may be seen from this quotation from
the leading editorial:
It's historic Democratic journals, un-
failingly opposed to special privileges
granted against the general welfare by
high protective enactments in behalf
of relatively few benefciaries, have
passed under a control uncompromis-
tngly committed not only to Mckinley
Ism hIIr 9lcn the narC0na1 nn1iti-
cal fortunes of Mckinley himself.
Daily presses defending the best ira
dition of Democracy have been chang
ed in the twinkling of an eye to
friends and apologists of one of tho
most vicious tenets of the Republican
party. Insolence of tariff-gotten
wealth has grown prodigiously since
blocks of five" Its plan now is to de-
liver wholesale IA, Geo Chica goans who
voted for Cleveland and a Democratic
governor in 1892 as a commodity that
may be bought or sold to the support
OF pernicious and undemcratic Goc-
trine.
The editors, Messrs Martin ]. Rus
sell and Horatio w. Seymour an
nounce that the Chronicle will stand
through good and Ill report for all that
is best in historic democracy. and,
while intensely a Chicago publication,
1t will nevertheless cover the great
globe itself and aim at perfection as
a newspaper" They further say:
Associated for nearly a quarter OF
a century in the conduct or tha ser
vice of Democratic journals now gone
over to the party enemy, we venture
to make this publication which goes
forth with sturdy heart to what we
feel is assured success.
We are a little concerned as to the
attitude of the Chronicle on the silver
question. At present it appears to be
IN an attitude of getting ready to
jump. rather than to settle down 10
defined and determined policy. II says:
A firm believer in the old-time Dem
ocratic doctrine of hard and sound
money, it will give to the important
question of the currency full, free. and
fair discussion, the sole aim of which
will be the ascertainment of the truth
and the preservation and perpetuation
Of the public credit.
That may mean one thing or t'other,
as it may be differently construed.
That course is prudent perhaps, but it
Is not powerful. Straddling is not
usually dignified, and it is better to
stand firm to a policy until convinced
that it is wrong, than to occupy uncer-
tain ground or appear to be vacillat-
ing and flopable.
The Herald wishes the Chronicle
long life and usefulness, with pleasure
and profit to publishers and readers,
and that if its predecessors have been
susceptible to TIE sway of the money
power, it may overcome all similar
temptations and stand firm as a pillar
of pure and undefiled Democracy.