The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-08-09
PROVO CITY.
TWO SILVER CONVENTIONS,

La the hurry and worry of local pol
itics it Will not do to forget the SILVER
democratic convention of Illinois some
two months since, nor even the free
silver democratic convention of Mis-.
souri, held at Pertle Springs the other
day. Utah is silver producing state
and has vast interests impinglng on
the restoration of silver. She also has
an election this fall and these two con-
ventions and Tie results following each
have great interest for our people OF
both political parties. Republicans in
Utah favor free coinage or remoneti-
Zation and place greater importance
upon that than they do mere pa1tisan
success. We beg to ask them 10 point
us to any free silver republican cOnven-
tions held in any Of the states, north,
south, east or west. We claim that the
republican party is gold standard 30 its
boot-heels and that the democratic
party, Notwithstanding few misleG
administration deVotees, is equally in
favor of free silver. This is an inter
esting matter to Utah silver men of
both parties. The preponderance OF
testimony III the case is in favor of the
democratic silver claim, and against
the republican pretense of free coin
age In Utah. If the Utah voters would
see the prosperity which the remone-
tization OF silver would induce, they
should not vote for the party which
does nothing for silver and they should
vote tor the party, the onlE party,
which is doing all that it can for the
cause, not only in Illinois and Mis-
souri,, but in all the states. The voice
of the democracy is everywhere for the
restoration of silver while the voice of
republicanism Is either ominously 81
lent or openly hostile. 1t will be cur
ious to note if the people of Utah with
ali their mighty interests dependent
upon silver can be cajoled, upon petty
local and personal account, into voting
into power In this new state section
of the great party hostile to silver
her own life's blood. 1t seems most
illogical and unreasonable, especially
when we recall the fact that it has
only been two or three years since
there were republicans at all in Utah.
Surely in that brief space these peo-
pie have not imbibed the tenets of that
party to the extent that they Will
throw oyer their dearest interests only
to witness the triumph of party into
which they were inducted only two OF
three short years since. This we
would call both unreasonable and
nonsensicsl. There Is no getting away
from the conclusion that a vote in
Utah this fall for silver must be q
democratic vote; vote against silver
will be republican vote, whether so
intended or not. Let no one be de-
ceived, The gloriols fight in Illinois
for silver was made by democratic
convention. so, too, in Missouri
and the Fort Worth and the Mis-
sissippi conventions which were in
session yesterday battling with the
foes of silver are and were democratic
conventions. Thus it is, wherever
fighting for the free coinage of silver
iS in progress it is seen that it is the
democratic forces which are engaged. |
There are no republican forces any
where arrayed for silver. They either
fight silver openly or are silent. He
who is not for US is against us in q
struggle such as the one the democrats
of the nation, but especially of the
west and south, are at present engaged |
in. Let the brave and fair voters of
Utah recall this fact often between now
and election day.