The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-02-16
THE FIGHT Is ON.


national legislature refused to lend its |
sanction to the presidents proposed |
gold bond issue of 5,000, 900. This
means open war against the proposition
to put this country upon gold basis.
The gold forces are powerful, in every
way, in numbers, in wealth and in
their connections in Europe. 1t will
make another battle of the giants. AT
home here the silver men are in the
ascendant largely, but the bankers and
gold men are able tosreduce this ascen-
dancy by purchase and they can get all
the help they want from Europe in the
effort to enslaye this people again, and
bind them to the car wheels of the
European money kings. The elements
of opposition to the presidents policy
seem widely divergent, hostile and but
lily organized. In this army which
confronts the gold power are found
democrats, republicans and populis S,
and the anxious inquiry of the bimet-
allists is, can these apparently hostile
elements, hostile on all else, be held
together for long continued and des-
perate fight? 1t remains to be seen.
We believe they can, but in the effort
the whole political face of the nation
will be changed as completely as if the
people were all to be sent out of the
country and sixtv-five millions Of
Chinese were to be brought in to take
their places. The events in Wash
ington leading up to and preced-
ing Thursdays battle Indicate
that while there is goodly
number of republicans in the ranks of
the silver men, yet there is a heavy
majority of that party behind the gold
conspiracy. To show our meaning
clearer we should say that it would not
very greatly sstonish US were the gold
majority of the republicans to sink
out of sight all else and run Mr.. CleVe-
land next time for president. The
indications now are that the old party
organizations are to be broken up, all
issues pooled and two parties with a
single issue between them, gold STAN
dard, and bimetallism, be formed. 1t
is little too early yet to enable us to
see clearly as to what the real effects of
the presidential, or gold bond defeat.
VIII be.
We cannot see clearly nor will we be
able fully to determine until some test
is made, how manv democrats will go
off after the golden bull, leave their
old party moorings to follow the reck-
less gamblers of Wall street in their
determination to place the country and
all of its vast interests in the hands of
the gold barons of Europe, nor how
many republicans will develop more
patriotism than psrtisanship and join
with us in a manly and determined ef-
fort to snatch back from the be-
smirched hands of the gold bugs, the
fair heritage OF American freedom. One
thing has been developed by this latter
battle of Thursday last, and that is,
the next national campaign will not be
fought out on the old lines of tar,ff,
centraliZation,o or anything of that kind
The campaign will be as to blmetallism
or gold standard. 1t will be the
greatest political contest which has as
yet eyer shaken the world. Tue old
line democrats will be compelled to ar
range themselves under the dual
standard banner. 1t is one of the old
est and most revered tenets of the
democratic faith. and more of them
will follow that than the personality of
any man, even be that man Grover
Cleveland. We are on the threshold,
of stirring times and changeful times
and mighty changes are upon US. Let
all old-fashioned democrats recall and
renew their devotion to the good old
democratic Jefferson devotion.