The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-04
''TOST' CARTER FAvoRs A sTRAD.
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We clip the following interview with
Hon. Thomas H. Carter, Of Montana
from the Washington Post.
Senator Pugh, of Alamaba, and the
Hon. Thomas Carter, the chairman of
the National Republican committee,
were in conversation at Chamberlins
What will be the Republican posi-
ton on silver in 1922 asked Senator
Pugh.
THE free silver people," said Mr.
Carter, will be perfectly satisfied, no
matter who may be nominated, ii the
candidate will agree to abstain from
Vetoing such measures of finance as
Congress may pass. The free silver
people are confident that free silver
majority will exist in both Senate and
House, just as will be the next Con-
gress. All they fear is president and
his veto. Tie up the veto and free
silver is safe. To avoid split and fric-
ton of all kinds, the convention of SO
will adopt a platform, and on ffnace
nwill recite the platform of '92, so far
as 1t referred to money. In addition,
what was once fashionable as an old
line Wing doctrine, will be asserted in
a section by itself. This section will
declare in effect that the Republicans
are opposed to and discourage on the
part of the president any invocation of
his veto power save in cases where a
grave constitutional question is at
stake. Unless the Constitution is in
Volved there should be no veto. This
is expected to be satisfactory to the
free silver people, and to permit them
to support anybody who ran on that
platform, from John Sherman to Tel
Ter. The section would mean that
whatever measure of finance Congress
saw fit TO adopt the President would al
least not veto. 1t would Become a law,
either by his signature or his failure to
sign"
Mr.. Carter is a senator from the
silver state of Montana. He is also
the chairman of the Republican ma
tional committee. What he states on
the subject of silver-Republicanis
may be accepted as authoritative. He
is firm friend of silver but a firmer
friend of Republicanism. Only two or
three days ago he expressed his views
in favor of free silver candidate
But since them he has been in close
touch with Harrison and Mckinley
and Morton and Depew. He is able to
read the handwriting on the political
wall He sees that silver is without
hope in the Republican party. He has
looked around for some way out of
the dilemma and has sold out. He
places party before principle. He adj
mits a defeat before the first clash of
arms. He has made the same conces-
sion that c. C. Goodwin and Frank ].
Cannon made at Denver and for which
Chairman Crane recently contended in
the league convention in this city. He
virtually comedies all that Hon.
G. Merrill said but few days
since through the columns of this
paper, concerning the enmity of the
party against, and the
of the Democracy for, free
silver.
It is not because he loves free silver
less but because he loves protection
more that Thomas H. Carter suggests
such an infamous compromise with the
gold men. 1t may suit the Hon. Tom
Carter, for political ends, to advocate
a straddle; it may suit his views as
by contact with the eastern
wing of the party. that John Sherman
should be nominated for the presi-
dency, and that the meaningless
plank of 1892 should be reaffirmed,
upon the single imperative condition
that the convention should resolve
against the exercise of the veto except
IN cases where a constitutional ques-
ton arises; it may suit Mr.. Carter that
the whole silver campaign for Con-
gressmen should be handicapped by a
goldbug candidate for the presidency
but not so with the rank and file of
western RepUblicanism. We believe
we may speak for them in saying that
not for one moment will they tolerate
an UNANIMOUSLY traitorous suggestion
that will render possible the nominal
lion of John Sherman or the adoption
If an ambiguous platform.