The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-26
THE CLEVELAND CONVENTION.

! 1t is probable that a good many Repub-
/ licans will ask what the Cleveland gath
/ ering was for, if not TO offer suggestions
( and counsel as to the future policy of the
party on the silver question? 1t mas been
understood that the purpose of the league
was 10 collate and give coherent express
sion to opinions in the party and Diaze
the way for future party action. What
then was the object of the Cleveland
gathering? There were no candidates TO
be nominated; no ot1lceS to be nned, and
there was only one issue upon which
there is material difference among Repub-
Hcans. Delegates from every state IN the
Union dId not go all the way to CleVe-
land, many OF them thousands of miles,
merely to hear a few partisan orators
talk their back teeth loose in eulogies of
the g. o. p. and have a general gooq time.
Minneapolis Tribune:
The gold bulletins to the contrary not
outstanding, the silver men won q sub
SfantlaI victory in the club convention
at Cleveland. Inc god men did not get
even a sound money" or a parity" res
olution in the list. The convention took
sucn action as the interests Of the Repub-
Hcan party demanded-and ground no
mans az nor doomed any sections BOOM
let. The silver men simply laid down the
ultimatum that if the invention went
beyond the legitimate Programme as pro-
VideC by its own constitution, silver
Should not be stabbed in the house of its
friends They made a gallant fight and
they won their point.-kansas City Jour
nal
Just what reason the Republican party
will be able TO give next year for its e,l-
istence and for the presentation of a Re
puDncan candidate Tor the presidency
VIII not be known. IT was prepared to
shout its calamity cry, but calamity has
gone a-giimmering. The leagues at Cleve--
land could do more harm to their party
by declaration of principles this year
than they could do good. What principles
know. he league was wise in its own
way The currency question will not give
voters of the United States any concern
a year hence.-Chicago Chronicle.
So far as contributing any information
as to the probable course of the Republi-
can party, the convention was a ridicu-
lous failure, and its proceedings marked
by rank cowardice. \ convention of
CLAIMS could not have been more nom
committal This suggests that it might
be well for the Democrats to get together
in their national convention next year in
order to secure d running start--Mem-
phiS Commercial.
But although the question has gone
over without a vote, the effect is against
silver. Silver virtually suffered a defeat.
The cause has lost some prestige No
show of hands was necessary to reveal
the real situation It was as plain to one
side as to the other. The silver men could
do nothing but make a display OF temper.
and that they wisely decided not to do in
open meeting. The other side acted quite
as wisely in conceding a few unimport-
ant points and forbearing to press the adj
vantage it had. But for all this, the fact
remains that silver was from first TO last
in hopeless minority, and was treated
by the majority with a tenderness and
due to helplessness.
The effect on the silver question in gem
eral will be TO put an end temporarily to
the talk about a western Republican
bolt. A bolt i'll the end may come, but 1t
Is certainly not on the cards for this year
And there is Just this much argument
supplied against the probability of a bolt !
leXt year-that if the Republicans can adj !
49,. .nr.r UiAerenceS and prevent a split !
now, they will very likely be able to re-
peat the performance next year, when the !
pressure to secure an adj tment will be /
q thousand per cent stronger. This, it is 4
thought, must influence the situation in |
the Democratic camp.-Washington Star.
his cherished reputation as the |
jolliest of all if he were in the flesh now
and in competition with the silver men.
An advocate of free silver VINO can ex-
tract comfort from the action of the Re /
publican league convention has the ele- .
nent of joyfulness SO fully developed in |
lis nature that there would be no use in /
rying to disturb his serenity. The action |
If the convention means that the Repub-
lean party will declare against free sill
yer next year, if it means anything. But |
t may be that the silver advocates are
striving to get the Republican party
Igainst them in the fight of 1S96.-Kansas
Tity Times.