The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-09

9PPOlllluS power VIII ldpOI Cduul-
dates of its own party. although the
public interest should be the first con-
sideration and fitness ought to out
weigh party claims. But to clean out
patches of officials for no other reason
than that their places are wanted for
political rewards. is altogether diff
ferent matter.
Removal for cause is proper The
political belief and status OF an incum-
bent is not such cause" as the law
contemplates. There have therefore
been a number Of unlawful removals
Of county officials, and we would not
be surprised if some Of them were to
carry their case into the courts. when,
we have no doubt, the decision Of
Judge Bartch would receive judicial
endorsement. Let the county courts at
any rate be more careful and less par
tisan in future
THE DEMOCRACY AND SILVER.
When the ardent friends Of silver
endeaYored to commit the Democratic
before the adjournment Of Congress, it
was evident that they had left the
matter until it was too late to gain
full expression Of the majority. in
either House, of their views as to the
movement. It is not too late by any
means to organize for the purpose in
view. The work of obtaining "a state
- l.. e 0t,otO
merely preliminary effort which need
not affect the plan and purpose of its
promoters.
But near contemporary attempted
to draw from the failure Of the silver
men to obtain the expression OF views
which they desired, evidence that the
Democratic party is not in favor of
free silver, and that the claim that it
is may be set down as one of the DEM
oeratie false pretenses.
It is true that the gentlemen who
endeavored to obtain signatures to
their document did not succeed very
well. But the reason for that was
plain to all people whose eyes are not
full of Republican smoke and who do
As there was not time to make a thor
ough canvass of the Senate, it was left
out entirely. That contemporary, with
its usual peculiar logic, jumps to the
conclusion that this means a thorough
canvass was made of the House, and
that as only thirty-th three signers we're
obtained, that was the number Of the
of a possible 217.
The dishonesty of such statement.
and the pueriltty of such reasoning.
may be perceived clearly when the
votes cast In the House on the question
during the Congress now expired are
investigated It will be found that the
proportion of Democrats in favor of
free silver was far greater than that
of the Republicans. The figures for
many years show that the majority of
Democrats favored free silver. While
the majority Of Republicans were
against it. These have been published
and contrasted several times. But the
same paper which advanced the false
reasoning and absurd conclusion which
we have pointed out. contains the adj
dress Of the Bimetallic League on the
silver question, in which appears the
admission that while asserting that
the Democratic party is under the
control of the money power, "undoubt-
eddy a large majority of the members
of that party are opposed to the gold
standard" Against that declaration
the same document has the following;
'NThe Republican party is committed
by its leaders. by its record and by
the press behind it, to the gold stand
ard supported by gold bonds, and to
the retirement of the greenbacks and
the surrender of the issue and control
Of paper currency to the banks"
These statements, comings from the
organization established for the pur-
pose of forming a new party, with the
free and unlimited coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1 with gold as its
object and platform. are sufficient to
stamp the assertions and deductions Of
our contemporary as foolish and I'M
truthful.
While we do not support the Bime-
tallic League in its endeayor to create
q, new party, because we Believe that
would weaken the true silver party
the Democratic organization-we en-
dorse the statement that the large ma
jority Of Democrats are free silver
men, and therefore we look to their
party for silver salvation and resent
the Misrepresentation resorted to by
Republicans on that question.
The proper course for silver Demo
Gratis to take is to cling together, not
be driven or drawn apart. If a few
of them go oyer to the so-called Silver
party IT viii, by 50 many, weaken the
efforts that will be made to commit
the Democratic party to a silver cam
paign.
That the majority Of Democrats are
silver men there can be no reasonable
doubt. They can combine and present
so strong and unyielding a front that
there viii be no more misleading or
ambiguous party utterances on the
! money question, but the silver issue
will be made paramount and give the
party the victory in 1896
Let there be no surrender and no
division. And let there be no excuse
for Republican sheets to cast a doubt
on Democratic loyalty to the bimetallie
| doctrine which is an essential tenet of
| the Democratic creed.
SILVER UNDER STIMULATION.
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