The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-03-06
MARCH 6, 1895
DEMOCRACY AND THE SILVER
QUESTION.


The attempt to organize party On
one idea-the silver party on the silver
question alone-Will prove dismal
failure. Should it so accrete as TO win
one election it would die suddenly and
very dead, as a il one-ides parties be
fore it have died. Dou btless conai-
dered alone with regard to finance
there is pestifcstion enough to attempt,
at least, the formation Of silver party,
but we are not to forget that there are
other interests and other great princi-
pies at stake as well as the silver ques-
tion. The anti-slavery party, it is
true, effected the destruction of that
institution. That wss g great work,
doubtless, but after the war closed it
was found that simply striking the
shackles from the limbs Of the negroes
was not all. Something else was de-
manded. The republican party had no
history and no principles save only
as the successor Of the anti-slavery or
free-soil party, undying hatred to the
oligarchy as it was called. Then it
turned to the OLD whig party and took
up protection, Capitalization, liberal
construction and the thousand and one
issues and crotrhets which went TO
make up the faith of the lineal de-
scendant of the old federal party. So
il would be with silver party, if one
were organized alone upon the single
idea of free coinage.
Happily this new party is not neces-
sary. From the foundation Of the
democratic party, which is also the
foundation Of the government,
one of its first and most dearly
priced tenets Of faith has
been the double standard, or gold and
silver, each equal with the other, at the
exchange ratio of sixteen TO one. They
can say what they please, democratic
leaders Of the Cleveland school and the
republican foes of democracy, yet it is
indubitably true that four-fifths Of the
democracy is today founded. upon and
firmly planted upon the time honored
old faith of hard money, the double
standard, or, if you please, bimetallism.
Whenever thoroughly fair test is ap-
piled, the nation, the party and its foes
will all see that this is true, true in
every sense and to all extents, The
democracy is now in sack cloth and
ashes bewailing its folly for having
elected Grover Cleveland TO second
term in the face of the declaration
which he made after his first election
and before he was inaugurated. Why
do they repent2 Why are they
sorry for SHINING the second time?
Simply and only that they did not
believe him when he wrote of his
gold bug principles. Out of the love
they had for him as true democrat
On all other points of the faith, they
extracted enough confidence to warrant
The belief that he would ultimately re-
turn to the true creed which embraced
the double standard as well as tarIt
reform. Find a dozen true blue Ole
democrats who do not look at the whole
question in this light and We'll give up
All know it and feel that this Is true
Take this army of true silver men
add TO it all the other elements o.
hostility to goldbugism and we woult
have twice as many votes as would b.
necessary to;electEthe next president. LIE
US 90 into the fight and let the fre'
silver republicans and populists Yott
with each other or with the proposed
new silver party, and the gold bug ele
ment of repubiieauism will elect an
other Ben Harrison for president.
We can't afford that, and by rsllyinI
20 the free silver democracy We woult
take the south solid with US. There il
now no unpreiudiced man Of sufficien
intelligence to count the fingers upoI
his two hands that can't see its ute
truth. Silver men Of the west, her
is our opportunity; here is ou
chance, and here is our policy. If "
will pursue it for the next two year
we will not only win at the polls bu
we will see the next new congress re
monetize silver with hardly a dissent
Ing voice. Every consideration G
aa..oo .x,I ,,o+r;of;ou, laolzonc no 4
this course, and every certainty exist
that we will succeed with silver. W
cannot afford to throw the chanc
away unless we are willing to max
our present panic condition permaner
and become only the hewers OF WOO
and drawers of water for the banker
Of New York and London.