The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-07

NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-The Herald
this morning says:
Michael H de Young, proprietor of
the San Francisco Chronicle, and a
member of the Republican national
committee, is in this city. He is on his
way to Washington to present the
claims OF San Francisco as the place
for holding the next Republican con-
vention.
There are persons in this part of
the country he said, who are figur-
ing on Republican walkover, and
notice that Brice, on behalf Of a GER
tain class of Democrats, has thrown
up the sponge. There are other Demo-
Gratis, like eX-Speaker Crisp for in
stance, who take less cherries view
of the situation.
You will remember Mr. Crisp said
after the election that the monetary
policy of the Democratic party would
in the future be dictated by the sure
Democratic states, not by the doubtful.
To me it seems that Crisp is figuring
something like that. The group of
states known as the solid south, which
have 156 electoral votes, can be de-
pended upon to take any action in the
national convention that its leaders
dictate.
just Suppose.
''Now, suppose in their wisdom.
they decide upon a f1atfooted plan,
favoring free and independent coinage
OF silver, what help could they expect?
They are perfectly aware of the situa-
ton, and know that they could depend
upon the delegates from the following
states to stand in with them: Califor-
MIA, Colorado. Idaho. Montana, Nevada,
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North Da-
hota, Oregon. South Dakota. Washing
ton, Wisconsin, Wyoming and Utah.
These fifteen states have all shown
pronounced silver or Populist leanings.
and the latter just now mean free sill
yer. Illinois, as we know. would in all
probability, send delegation favorable
to free silver. as the leading Demo-
cratic politicians of the state are pro-
nounced in their advocacy of free COIN
age.
THE Democratic conventions stick
to the two-thirds rule, and the dele
gates from the solid south and the
states above enumerated, would repre-
sent several votes short of two-thirds.
but if the keen politicians of Indiana,
Michigan and Minnesota have it made
clear to them that the one fighting
chance for the party is under the ban
ner Of free silver, they would not re-
fuse their adhesion to the programme
of Crisp, Harris. Morgan and Bland.
IF the Democrats should adopt a
free coinage plank, and the Republic
cans should try TO straddle, these men
think that they cDu'7 depend upon the
15o votes of the soIId south and the S6
votes Of fifteen other states.
Might Be Morgan.
Whom would the Democrats nonli-
nate on a silver platform? I don't
know whether Shey would have the
courage TO nominate a former con-
federate general, but there are signs Of
disposition on their part to consider
the war at an end. If so, there is no
reason why they should not put I'D
Morgan. of Alabama.
THE south would go for him with
whoop and there is scarcely a sill
yer man unacquainted with his
straightforward record in favor of BIZ
me1allism. In short, I should regard
him as a dangerous opponent on a
free silver platform, if our party has
not sagacity to see the drift of events.
"Of course all these conjectures go
on the assumption that the idea ex-
pressed by Republicans in the states
along the seaboard prevail, and that
the party attitude of friendliness to
silver, will be abandoned. If good
sense prevails and the Republicans
come out for silver and show that they
are in earnest, no Democratic candi-
date could have a show against them,
for bimetalliSm and protection are
loEically connected. If the ideas ex-
pressed by Reed, Senators Lodge and
Chandler are followed we can sweep
the field"