The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-06-25
PROVO CITY.
NO HOPE SAVE IN DEMOCRACY.

Ever since the immortal fasco at
Cleveland, the Tribune has been throw
ing sand into the eyes of its readers
here in Utah, and as a sand thrower it
is not to be sneeZed at, by any man
ner of means. Monday morning il
tuIns to the south and loudly regrets
that twelve out of fourteen leading
southern papers have espoused the
gold standard. Now it would be real
interesting if the Tribune would give
us the names of these twelve papers.
We know that the Bungtown Bully
and the Possom Trot TraYesty are for
gold, but what bothers US is to find out
where the other ten gold papers are
located. The Atlanta Constitution is
out and out for free coinage and that
will go in the south or anywhere else,
where the facts are known, es equal to
an hundred and fifty of the Kind of
papers which are supporting the single
standard.
This is poor way the Tribune has
selected to meet the crushing effects Of
the Cleveland result. The west, but
especially Utah, went forward to
Cleveland with blare of trumpets
which was deafening. Especially was
Utah happy in the presence there of
Allen and Trumbo. They were the
champions who would surely secure
the free coinage declaration which
would have been of inestimable ad-
vantage in this state iris fall. They
did not secure it, but IL ~ we're told
that that convention was a republican
convention and it would not monkey
with silver. This broadly scattered
over Utah and there is no more chance
of carrying her for the republicans than
there is in hades for cat. The Tri-
bune we'll knows this and hence the
weak attempt to defect attention from
republican failure, from republican
sin against free silver, to the short
comings of a few obscure country
papers in the south on the subject of
silver. The Tribune in the years that
have passed played such contemp-
tible tactics with success. Utah has
advanced beyond this sort of thing and
the Tribune has apparently not found
it out. The plan will not work. Sup
pose every paper in the south were a
gold bug advocate, how could that fact
excuse the Cleveland republican leagues
convention for slappifg the faces of
the silver men? The fact that the
democratic south is solid for free COIN
age is a thorne in the side of the re-
publican gold standard patriots all over
the nation, but more especially in
Utah. 1t is full confirmation of the
claim the western democratic papers
have ever made to the end that repub-
icauism was and is always gold stand
ard, while democracy has always been
synonym of free silver.
This very thing is to have a great
significance in the campaign in Utah
this fall. Here democrats and repub-
licsns are free silver, and the develop
ment of practical democratic unani-
nifty for silver in the west and south
will be very unWholesome to our local
Utah republican hopes this fall.
Hence the Tribune writes such stuff as
it did Monday morning in the vain
hope Of Withdrawing the attention of
free silver men in the republican party
from the difference in favor Of demo-
cracy on this point. Had the Cleve-
land convention never been held, Or
had it passed free coinage declara-
tion, the result in Utah might have
been otherwise. Now it is too late.
The mistake has been made and the
democratic papers of Utah will not be
slow IN pointing out to the voters of
the state the full hatred Of silver
manifested at ClevelsId and in con-
trasting it with the strong free silver
predictions manifested in the south,
from Virginia to Texas. 1t is too late,
MIR. Tribune. The contrast has been
made and the fruit harvested.