The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-06-22
PROVO CITY.
AFRAID OF THE ISSUE.

Professionally we are very sorry for
the Tribune, and personally we are
equally sorry for some of our republi-
can friends who we believe are honest
in their warm silver expressions.
Otherwise we rejoice that the blatant
demagogues who, knowing the truth
as to republican hatred for silver and
the purpose to down it, yet have been
claiming in the west the devotion OF
the national party to the white metal.
These have been fittinglY rebuked by
the failure at Cleveland to give any ex-
preston whatever IL favor of remone-
zation. The party, cowaTd-like, did
not dare to take position either way.
For silver they would have lost the
east, against silver they would have
lost the west. Either horn of the d.
lemma would have been equally fatal.
They could only ignore. In this blessed
silver-ribbed Utah of ours this lack OF
expression on the part of the Cleveland
leagues convention must prove fatal
this fall. Here, gentlemen, this action
OF the highest organization of the ma
tionsl republican party says to you
plainly: ave cannot do anything for
silver because if we gave expression
for silver we would invite defeat next
year. If we gave expression against it
49,, Yr fror, Othpr di-
rection. No, the best we can do is to
straddl3 in the next national contest
as we did in the last" There is no
voter in Utah 30 much of a dullard as
not to understand that this closes,
blots out and utterly destroys any
chance for silver, if the republican
party is triumphant next year. The
republicans in Utah who favor silver
have nothing whatever to do now save
to vote with the democrats this fall, as
we'll as next. If they do not, and re-
main with the grand old party of de
ceit, deception and the gold standard,
they thereby declare against the very
life's blood of western prosperity, silver,
tae money of the west and of the south
equally.
1t is a terrible republican disaster to
the western states and each one of
these must now logically, if it
votes at all, vote the democratic
ticket or vote against silver.
Just how much of hardship this will
prove to certain blatant republican
free coinage" men and papers in
the west, OF the Tribune stripe, re-
mains to be seen, The Tribune made
preparation for this last year at the
national leagues convention at Denver.
1t at once modified its tone, softened
its demands and manifested such
compromising AVAILABILITY that it ought
not to find much difficulty in meeting
the situation today. The silver forces
in the republican party in Utah today
stand aWe-stricken before the enor
nifty of the injury inflicted by this &C
ton of the leagu es convention, or, to
speak more properly, this total lack Of
action.
Cowardice is the greatest crime
soldier can commit. In politics it is
still worse and there is no forgive
ness. Our western delegates went
to Cleveland declaring that they would
come out and come home unless sill
yer declaration was psssed-a dis
tinct and explicit free coinage plank in
serted. 1t was not done as they always
knew it would not be. Did they secede?
Did they Indignantly come away? On
no! They remained and were made
vice-presidents and the like. A cheap
price for the negative betrayal of the
silver west into the hands of the east
ern gold forces,
How dare they, how can they ever
again face the silver men of the west
and ask for confidence, respecU or in
huence, to say nothing of the votes
which are necessary to carry this brave
new state for the nominees of that
party2 This want of action on the
part of the leagues convention may
win Massachusetts and other New |
England states, but it will lose Idado, |
Washington, Oregon, Utah, Kansas,
Nebraska, California, the Dakotas and
Iowa. We can't see but it will after
all prove pretty good thing for the
west in the end. The free silver demo-
craey is now the only hope Of the ma
ton.