The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-10


to 1, by the United States alone.
But that paper persistently misrep-
resents the facts in relation to that
convention. 1t insists, without the
slightest reason, that the decision of
that body was representative of the
whole Democratic party and was
pivotal" 1t was simply the act of
the majority of delegates from one
State of the Union. II the National
Convention OF Republican Leagues at
Cleveland, composed of delegates
from all the states, had no right to
speak for the Republican party. how
much less can the majority votes OF
| delegates from one state be regarded
as voicing the. views of the Demo-
cratic party!
That paper tries to creep out of its
editorial falsehood that only two
votes were cast at that convention in
favor of silver, by muddling up the
matter and referring to a part of the
dispatch giving an account of the
proceedings. which said that on an
incidental motion only twenty-five
votes were in the affirmative. Yet
right in the same paragraph, the real
vote against the majority report is
given as "2S5-S97O nays" With
these figures before it, the unprin-
cipled concern repeated day after day.
until called down by The Herald, that
ION the final vote out of nearly nine
hundred delegates there were only two
who had the courage to say no."
it really just what our untruthful
neighbor endeavors to make out? Let
us see. Here is the exact language of
the resolution:
"Third-We re-affirm without quail
fication. the principles, and policies
declared by the National Democratic
platform in 1892, and declare our pres
ent Democratic administration is en-
titled to the thanks of the party for
! its honest, courageous and statesmen
like management of public affairs, and
we express our undiminished conf
dence in the Democracy and patriotism
of President Grover Cleveland and his
distinguished co-adviser and secretary,
John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky"
Now what was the declaration of
the platform of 1892 in relation to
silver which the majority of the
Kentucky convention re-affirmed?
Here it is:
Eve hold to the use OF both gold
and silver as the standard money of
| the country, and to the coinage of
both gold and silver without dis
elimination against either metal or
charge for mintage, but the dollar
unit of coinage of both metals must
| no of iV1fy
able value or be adjusted by interna-
tional agreement or by such safe
guards of legislation as shall insure
the maintenance of the parity of the
two metals and the equal power of
every dollar at all times in the mar
ket, and in the payment of debts; and
we demand that all paper currency
shall be kept at par with and re-
deemable in such coin. We insist
upon this policy as especially neces-
sary for the protection of the farmers
| and laboring classes, the first and
most defenseless victims of unstable
money and fluctuating currency"
Is that such a terrible declaration
against silver?" If so, how does the
Tribune account for it's own endorse
ment of the Denver silver plank
which was anti-free coinage in com
parison? If the Denver straddIe was
all right, as our neighbor contended
and in which it's editor assisted, not
having the Courage" on the final
vote, 'to say no. is not the Kentucky
resolution all right too, after all?
But there were more than 233 Demo-
Gratis who had the courage to say
no. because it did not go far enough
in the direction of Independent free
silver coinage, and because it vir-
tually endorsed the course of Cleve-
land and Carlisle on the financial
question. Thus the majority vote
was not cast in actual hostility to
silver but as an endorsement of the
international agreement idea, which
we of the West regard as unlikely to
be carried out though all Of us admit
it would be the most satisfactory way
to settle the entire question.
The Herald has never intimated
approval of the final vote at Louisville,
but has merely wished to have it
understood instead of being vilely
misrepresented The wilful false
hoods told about it editorially in the
Tribune provoke these further Cefer-
ences to it. We regret there were no
more votes than the 233 odd cast
against the majority report, but con-
sidering the influence of Cleveland
and Carlisle, of Lindsay and Nc
Creary in the State of Kentucky, it is
gratifying that there were SO many
delegates who chad the courage to
say no. on a resolution endorsing
hose Democratic dignitaries.
When anxious to make a point
against the Democracy again, before
going too far our neighbor down the
street should read over the following
from one of it's own editorials, a pre-
cept which it daily violates in prac-
tice:
When a newspaper tries to make a
point through an unfair statement of
the real situation, it generally fails.
In the newspaper world it is as 1t is
in the business world when the at
tempt is made to obtain property
under false pretenses.
MANUFACTURER Seeing LIGHT.
strange fact is that our manufactJlr
ers are no longer such great st1cklerS for
high Observation-Disclosures News.