The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-06-17
PROVO CITY.
JUN Z Il. 1895
NOT READY YET.

" for silver, and the other Snail IN IHo
least equlvocate, all will vote for the
silver man and plank. But repubn-
cans should not get crazy just yet. The
republican party is the one that has
done the real business of our govern
ment for five and thirty years. 1t be
ieves in protection to American INDUS
tries. and silver is one of them. The
democracy is in full power, with presl-
dent and both houses Of congress. Inc
democracy is doing nothing but hal
loing. Let US wait little and see
which will make the best showing, or
see whether either will advance any
thing that will be accepted.
The above paragraph we take from
the Tribune of Sunday morning, and
it indicates well the degree and char
acter of that paper on the silver ques-
tion better, perhaps, than anything 1t
has vet written. You see the Tribune
has posed for years and years as the
one only free coinage, free silver, and
remonetization authority IN Utah, not
in Utah alone but in all the vast
region between Denver and the Pacific
ocean. Indeed, it has been a great
free silver paper, able, clear and brave.
1t is true the question was pretty lar
removed, 1t was cloudy and there was
little prospect of national campaign
on that issue and it could afford to talk
bravely on silver. 1t was never en-
tirely ignorant Of the fact that the re-
publican party of this nation has al
WAYS been, is still and will always le-
main the party Of the gold-bugs; will
ALWAYS in the future oppose remone-
tization SIS it has always done in the
past. But now the campaign for the
double standard of gold and silver is
on and the expressions so far had by
both parties is to the effect that the
republican party viii oppose remonetl-
Zation, as the democratic party will
advocate 1t, hence the Tribune pulls
short up. "BuJ," it says, "republi-
cans should not get crazy, just yet. "
That means that republicans in the
west, in Utah, are expected to vote the
republican ticket regardless of silver
or anything else.
Yes, 1t is the republican party which
has done the real business of the coun'
try for the last thirty years. We can
not deny this if we would, and a pretty
mess it has made of the business, to be
sure. 1t was the republican party
which demontized silver in '73, beyond
a doubt. 1t was also the republi-
can party which has always op-
posed, and successfully too, alas!
every democratic effort made since
that date, to re-establish silver
or the double standard. Unfortunately
it is quite too true that the republican
party has done the business of this
country for thirty years, and all the
panics, all the failures, all the dis.
tresses, all the suferings and losses of
the people in consequence of demone-
tization, are to be charged up to it. 1t
is no wonder therefore that the repub-
liCsn organ in Utah should advise the
republicans not to ''get crazy" just
now, and go for the silver man as the
Tribune understood all along they
would. With all of the greatness of
lis ability on the silver question in the
past, the Tribune cannot yet rise to
the eXaltation which would enable it
TO support free silver candidate for
president of any party other than of
the republican party. The Tribune
might as well accept the organising
which it has so often spurned, as not. |
1t does not mean to support any man
not republican, no matter at all about
the fate of silver.
The Tribune is not fool. 1t under |
stands as well as any one does that its
party is the real gold standard strength !
in this nation and that while few of |
the leaders of democracy, such as the
president and Mr.. Carlisle, are gold
bugs of the gold Burgers, yet the masses
Of the party in all the states are true,
loyal and devoted friends of silver
Catch it advising the rank and file of
It's party to go for silver when it knows
80 well that the democratic candidate
will be nominated only on free COIN
age platform, and the republican can
didate will be planted firmly on gold
standard plank. The sentiment of
he west" may 90 to hades, for ali the
Tribune cares, but the republican party
will not 60 for silver, and the Tribune
knows it as well as we do. The fact is,
hat paper itself hasn't gone much"
or silver since the Denver Leagues
convention. 1t is old now and 1t can
not learn the trick of supporting q
ighteous policy unless Its party is to
cap the benefit.
This is the way the Tribune has
AIKEN to announce its formal with
travail from the silver forces and re.
urn to the pettings, cajOleries, of the
old men of the east at the cost OF the
liver influences of the west which have
go long its leal seryitors and
evoted followers. 1t stands thus: If
be republican national party elects to
5and for silver, the Tribune will re-
lain for the white meta; if it goes
II gold, the Tribune will dutlfully
'llow. Now then, ye Utonian silver |
how do you like your |
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