The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-29

financial policy at Cleveland might
have resulted in dissensions which
would have seriously impaired the
Leagues fighting power, and this was
what the Democrats were hoping for
By declining to pronounce upon the
currency the League has kept the tar
If issue at the front where 1t belongs.
While friendly to silver as an Amer
lean product, the Republican party is
Overwhelmingly in favor of a dollar
worth one hundred cents, and it will
not vary from it's attitude in this re-
spect. The platform of 1892 was an out
spoken declaration for honest money.
The platform of 1896 will be equally
definite, equally courageous and equal
~ sound.
All that is from one of the most
radical of Republican sheets in the
United States. The opinions of other
prominent journals on the non-action
of the Cleveland convention will be,
perhaps, interesting to most of our
readers if not to our terribly disgrunt-
led morning contemporary. Its apology
for the silence which was the result of
that great aggregation of Republican
celebrities and orators, that they had
no authority to speak for the Nation
al party, is thus directly answered
though not Intentionally so by the
Pittsburg Dispatch:
1t is true that the Republican clubs
cannot say anything that binds the
! National convention. But the Repub-
! Hcan clubs are supposed to be made
up of men so grounded in Republic
can principles that they are ready to
declare them whenever and wherever
the occasion calls for it. The occasion
calls at present for an emphatic de-
! claratiOn of the Republican principle
fealty to sound money and the unvary
ing dollar. For the Republican League
to take an action that is susceptible
/ of construction that they do not know
what the Republican principle on the
coinage question is, until the conven-
ton has declared it, is very severe
! either on itself or the party principles.
! The League of Republican clubs is
| evidently in need of spinal column.
The Minneapolis Journal thus chides
silver Republicans on their vain pre-
fences about the silence on silver at
the convention:
Garter, of Montana, and Trumbo, of
/ Utah, profess to be very jubilant over
/ the result of the Cleveland convention
and speak of it as a great victory f;r
silver. 1t is the same kind OF a victory
that man wins when some one gets
a judgment against him in court and
he succeeds in securing a stay of exc
cution for a little while. There was not
minute during that convention when
the friends of sound money could not
have passed the strongest kind of
sound money resolutions by a vote of
two to one or four to one, and when
the free coinage of silver of 16 to 1 by
this country alone would not have been
/ voted n I nd
these friends of free silver to make
the boaStful claim they do now is to
show themselves undeserving and I'M
appreciative of the patience and con-
sideration which the overwhelming
majority exercised with regard to the
feelings and wishes of a small minor
ity in the interest of harmony in the
party.
The following summary Of the eff
fects of non-action on the part of
the League Convention is from the
Chicago Evening Journal:
The Cleveland convention has been
valuable to the party, and the measure
of it's value is in inverse ratio to the
number of it's resolutions. 1t has Civ
en- the would-be candidates their cue,
yet has compromised nothing against
the future. It's silence is golden, in
craze a chance to draw its robes about
itself in decent order in time to die
gracefully.
There are many papers which treat
the matter in a similar way, but we
have place only for one more extract. /
This is from the Rochester, New York, |
Herald:
The action of the National conven- |
ton of Republican clubs in refusing
to make any declaration or express |
any opinion on the overlapping issue
before the American people was a pit
iful exhibition of cowardice. 1t was in
tended to be shrewd and cunning pol |
itics, but we are very much mistaken /
if it does not prove to have been the (
reverse.
The consensus of opinion among fair |
and candid people of all political COM
plexions is that the sneak at Cleve- /
land is ominous as to silver. If there
had been anything like a respectable
showing of silver delegates, the ques-
ton Of questions would not have been
shelved nor would the convention have
dissolved without some declaration of
principles. These would not have been
construed as the authoritative utter
ances of the Republican party, but
simply as the resolutions of the Repub
lican clubs of the United States. The
highest number of silver delegates
claimed in that convention that we
have seen in print is one to seven
goldites. Does not that show how
strongly the Republican party stands
in favor OF silver?