The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-05-17
FEELING THEgPUBLIC PULSE.

Just now the republican party in all
of it's forms of organization is engaged
in feeling the public pulse on the sill
Yer question In the far east that
great party is busy forming single
standard clubs and all of its organs are
bowling for."honest money! and the
din is awful In the south the Lilly
Whites are engaged In the hopeless
task of teaching the ''man and brother
that there is no real money other than
yellow gold, and Cuffee is wondering
what will take the place of the white
money in which all of his ''tips" are
paid. The negrOe has never seen a
gold piece of smaller denomination
than five dollars, and if silver is done
away with The Lilly Whites tell him
that he will have the Shines paid in
gold, and Of course there being nothing
less coined they must Of needs get hYe
dollars. In the west, especially in this
silver mountain region, another dodge
must be played. Here IN Utah the
leagues declare loudly for silver and
send Goodwin and Trumbo to Cleve-
land. Goodwin writes the strongest
SORT of free coinage doctrine for his pa
per, but he goes to league convention
in Denver aud helplessly falls into the
arms OF the enlarged use" men, and
it all goes. This year he is sent to the
Il tagues convention at Cleveland and
bis yoke-mate, Col. Trumbo, may be q
gold bugger of the bugs or an ZEN
larged'' user, or even fat man, no.
body knows which. Goodwin on his
pulse feeling mission is instructed TO
go for silver, but Cleveland is farther
east than Denver was, and if proper
tionate results are to follow, he Is
bound to bloom out there not Only a
sound money man but a rabid single
standard gold bug, and to deliver the
Utah delegation an unit 1.-TWO" and
indivlssble for just such q plank as
Tom Reed, Bill Mckinley or Ben Har-
rison may write.
ALI this Utah tal6, writing and vot-
ing is not expected to go in CleYeland,
and the pulse feelers will understand
in perfectly legitimate way that the
mountain walled treasure house of
the gods" is a true, blue gold
standard treasure house, nothwith
standing that the mountains of which
its walls are formed, are silver scanned
from base to dome, This is the way
the west is to be handled. The tao
tics Of Minneapolis are worn thread
bare; something else is expected, is
necessary, and Goodwin and Trumbo
have the necessary elasticity to sup
ply that something out of hand, when
ever it is demanded. Backbone which
will bend is what is needed now in the
republican councils and better
choice could not have been made in
Utah, with this bending necessity in
view. We can always trust the repub-
licans Of the west to make a proper
cho ce in an emergency like this as they
can trust the democrats for the neces-
sarY blunder, at the exact nick Of time.
1t is true that the leagues meeting
wrote out its sentiments in unmistak-
able language, but please note how
the reading in Cleveland will differ
from the reading in Zion.
Neither must we ever forget that
these two representatives are the pop
ularly nominated republican candl-
dates for the republican nomination to
the U. S. senate from Utah to be elect
ed next winter, and here is where our
interest comes in, and here begins the
necessity for the closest kind of watch
ing. Our Utonian republicans haven't
been on the carpet long enough yet, to
be all contaminated and many of
them are true blue silver men.
Let all such keep a watehful eye upon
the precious pair, Goodwin and Trum-
DO, and it will be millions to mills
that they will both betray the trust
ing silver constituents in the most ap-
proved fashion.