The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-07-18
JULY I8. 1895
PROVO CITY.
REPUBLICANS AND SILVER.

There are many honest repuollcans
in the mountain states who really be-
lieve that the republican party will re-
monetize silver when it again comes
into power. A man may be very
honest and yet very great fool at the
same time. Now 10 any such trusting, |
ignorant voter, we say, get John Sder-
mans interview with Frank g. CaT
penter and read 1t. If that don't eff
fectively jerk that nonsense out of him
he is even a greater Ounce than we
have hitherto rated him, Senator
Sherman is surely a republican, taken
and accepted by all of The clans Of
that tribe without question. Well,
John told Carpenter that he didn't be-
lieve there were sufficient number Of
idiots in any one Of the states of the
American union today to vote the
state in favor of the craze of free silver,
or words TO that effect. The interview
is too long for us to think of reproducing
1t, but it is being repubished Ill many
of the papers and every reader of The
DISPATCH may easily procure one and
read for himself. The whole screed is
one Of great bitterness against silver
and as able an argument as can be
made against it, but the great point is
that Sherman feels SO particularly
satisfied with the sentiments of the re-
publican party in favor of The Single
gold standard that he is bending his
every effort to elect it's nominees next
fall. This, together with the other sig.
nihcant fact that Mr.. Sherman is him.
self author and engineer of the act of
demonstration in 1873, should be con-
clusiYe evidence, we think, to show
that there is not only no hope in the
republican party for silver, but rather
there is serious menace against re-
mOnetization in its present or futnre
triumphs.
No man knows better than does
Senator Sherman that the gold stand
ard is safe in this land so long as there
is republican majority in congress or
a republican in the presidential chair,
but this is the first time he has had
the boldness to say so expliciUely. He
has said it, however, and although the
interview has been published nearly a
week no single denial has as yet ap-
peared in any paper east or west. 1t
therefore stands as an undisputed fact
upon Senator Sherman s authority that
the republican national authority is
now and forever against remonetiZa-
tion. Just why our mountain silver
men should adhere to that party after
this we cannot for the life that is in us
see. After all it. is worth more to us
here in Utah to have the ban lifted
from silver than 1t is or would be to
have any political party which was
ever organized on earth elevated to
power and maintained there for an
hundred years.
Let our good republican friends in
Utah look into this matter carefully.
Let them no longer be decieyed. Let
them not be cajoled III this into voting
for the party specially pledged to the
fell task of keeping down silver after
having first flung it from its high posi-.
tion as money metal, the full equal
of gold. Extreme partisanship leads
men to dangerous positions. but, un-
less partisan republicans haYe arrived
to that pitch that they will vote to en-
tail eternal poverty upon the entire
west simply that republicanism may
triumph, they must cast their strength
with the party which has ever stood by
silver, save few recreant leaders, the
democratic party, which in all of its
forms of organization here and else
where is for the free and unlimited
coinage of both gold and siiyer, The
originSl money of the constitutio n.