The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-29
COLONEL TRUMBO'S IDEA.
Eastern StubbornneSs Refuses
to Perceive important
Facts.
THE WHITE.METAL STANDARD.
Its Consideration Far More Impor-
tant Than All Questions Of
Tariff.

I NEW YORK, n. Y, June 2S.-Colonel
Isaac Trumbo, who led the fight for silver
IN the late convention of the Republican
League at Cleveland, was in the city to-
day. He is one of the youngest Repub-
ican leaders in the West, but there are
none more active and who have accom-
plished more at his time of life. He is not
yet 40, but he has made fortune, and il
is generally agreed that he will be elected
United States Senator from Utah this
winter.
Although vigorous advocate of unlim-
tied silver coinage, the colonel has in
variah:y refused to go outside party lines
in making the fight. Threats of boiling
in the event of a gold platform being
adopted by the coming National Republi-
can convention he considers most unwise.
"The Republican party is our party, he
said at Cleveland, land we shall not leave
it." 1t is this answering loyalty that
enables him to WELD so much more infiu-
ence than some of his brethren, who are
constantly trying TO form distinct1vely
silver party, and gives him hearing in all
Republican assemblies.
"The East" he remarked to-day, ere
fuses blankly to see two very serious
things. First, it refuses to acknowledge
despite all the evidence to prove it, that as
the characterization OF silver brought OF
the hard times, so will it require the re-
monetization of silver to bring back good
times. Second, it refuses to understand
how deep-seated and universal is the feel
ing in the West in favor of silver. There
are practically no gold monometallists
while beyond the Mississippi River all the
people especially are determined that lhe
contest in 1896 shall be fought sauarely
on the recall of silver as a standard
money. With US it is superior to the tar
iff, and we have no fear of the Republican
: NarloI.at Convention next year making a
good platform. We are serene in the gen
eral faith that a vast majority of the
American people are in favor of the resto
ration of silver as a standard money, and
we are also firm i'll the party faith that the
Republican party will have both the wis.
dom and the patriotism to settle correctly
this great question. The papers that rep.
resent US as being willing to bolt the party
and rule or ruin do not know US.
1.-The Republican party is our party, and
we shall not leave it, but will settle al
contests within its lines. Besides that. we
have the confident faith that comes to
people who are in an actual majority and
know it. For we know we are in a ma.
jority in the Republican party, and, there.
fore, know that whatever shall be done as
to silver in the future will be a gain fol
us. We know that the high-water mark
for gold was reached at Minneapolis in
1892. The next platform, if it changes
from that, will change toward silver and
not toward gold.
"The gold monometallists everywhere
may as well understand that now. The
East has many people, bankers and
money-dealers, who are really for GOLD
currency. There are many other Eastern
people, manufacturers, merchants. etc.
who think now they are for it too. Bu
when it comes to electing President fo1
protection tney cannot do it without the
aid of the millions of Republicans who arr
for silver. and they cannot change the
Wilson bill to a better system of protection
without the aid of the eighteen or NOR,
United States Senators who will be for sill