The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-06-19
PROVO CITY. JUNE I9. 1895
APLAIN DEMOCRATIC STATEMENT

One of the oldest, best understood
and most revered underlying principles
of democracy, is that which declares
for 'hard money" gold and silver, not
either hard money in gold or silver,
bet gold and silver. Until a democratic
national convention formally and
unanimously repudiates silver and de
clares with equal fOrmality and unani-
nifty for gold as the "hard money"
meant in the early declarations of the
party, we refuse to follow any demo
cratic leader, be be president or not,
who allies himself with the gold single
standard, or the silver single standard
extremists. No one man, no one state
and no single combination of demo-
Gratis has the right to upset the policy
or principles OF the party and no demo
crat loses cast when he so refuses to
follow off after those who seek to serve
other than the gods of democratic
principles.
Mr. Cleveland was in all respects,
cave silYer,a most exemplary democrat,
He was to such an extent the IDOL Of
the party that even after his first admin
istration closed, good old democrats,
loving the silver principles OF the demo-
cracy as its other principles, refused
utterly to believe that he was devoted
to the gold Standard and bad aban-
doned democracy to the extent that
he had overthrown this one principle
SO important to the whole nation, but
more especially to the west and south,
that they concluded TO try him again.
They did 1t. He was triumphantly re-
elected, with what result the party
well understands now. We have had q
long, severe and terri BILE panic on
hand, as the result of the republican
act of demonetizstioD, we have had
free silver majority OF democrats in
congress for nearly three years, and
yet this democratic president has
uttered no word for silver, when he
knew all along that a free coin
age bill would be passed and
prosperity restored at once. We can
never forgive him for this, the west
and south will not forgive him. and
instead of going down to the future as
great patriot be will be execrsted
during the life of this generation If not
longer. This is great misfortune to
the democratic party; however, the
manly attitude assumed by the masses
of the voters will, in the future, go far
towards reducing the evil to its mini
mum.
1t is always terrible thing to up
root our idols, no less severe in politics
than in private life. In this instance
it is doublY difficult because of the ex-
alted virtues Of the nan in other mat
ters concerning the party. But we
have to do it. 1t has become a dire
necessity to us democrats of the south
and west. No mawkish OF sickly SEN
timent will stand in the way. The
party must take its stand for silver or
else we may as well offer our necks to
the foreign yoke of England and Roths.
childs AMI tamely surrender TO the
plutocrats, foreign and domestic. The
democratic party can never do it. II
m ust not, or it will forever lose the re-
spect and confidence of the working
10 asses of this nation. So far the cam
paign of the gold standard men in both |
parties has been only bluff and braga-
docia. They know the strength of the
silver forces and they ought to know
also that these tactics will fail in the
end, 1t is time to get down to work
and determine if we can afford defeat,
or if we will surrender the principles
of the party into the keeping of the
rich, or the men who are willing to
own either foreign or domestic mast
ers, even to the giving up of the cher
.ased principles of the deathless partv
spoken into being by Jefferson and
HE compeers.