The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-02

DelnS renlluted to state OF anarchy,
as is shown by its platform of 1868.
Oh. anarchy; anarchy; what art thou?
In 1872 the Democrats adopted the
Liberal Republican platform demand
ing a speedy return to specie payment.
England, recognizing that when the.
American people resolved 20 do GER
tain thing they would do it, if not tied
hand and foot, Immediately, on reading
that declaration, endorsed by one of
the leading political parties, proceeded
to forge the letters with which to bind
the people. the most direct route being
TO procure the decentralization of silver
which, if not so demonetized, would
constitute part of the specie with which
payment should be made She was sue
ceSsful within one year, as the act of
Congress of 1873 bears witness, and it
is said John Sherman, whom it is re-
ported is about to take the stump for
Mckinley and advocate the cause of
protecting the industries of this country
from the usurpations OF England, knows
why and how the thing was did; alas
for your efforts, John, the Great Spirit
has spoken to the people these words:
Let not the fervent tongue
prompt to deceive with adulation smooth
CAN on our purposed will.
In 1S96-We, the delegates of the Demo
cratic party Of the United States in
national convention assembled, do here
by declare that reform is necessary to
establish sound currency, restore pub
lie credit, and maintain the national
honor
We denounce the financial imbecility
and immortality of that party which,
during eleven years Of peace, has made
no advance toward resumption,
and while annually processing to intend
speedy return TO specie payments,
has annually enacted fresh hindrances
thereto.
In 1SS0-The Democrats of the United
States in convention assembled de-
clared:
We pledge ourselves anew to honest
money, consisting Of gold and silver,
and paper convertible into coin on de-
mand.
Here is the first proclamation in a
political platform for honest money
The phrase is not an original idea of
CleVeland's. Here is a political, yea
Democratic, definition of honest money.
AS TO the ideas of John Sherman, it
could not be expected to conform there
to, but it differs as materially from
the ideas of Cleveland, Carlisle, Whit
ney, HILL Watterson, John Bull & Co.
1t may be anarchy; it may be re-
quotation; it may import revolution;
but it is not deception nor hypocrisy;
It is the Democracy which made many
of these men what they are, prominent
but not great.
In 1884 the Democratic party of the
Union, through its representatives in
national convention assembled, said:
I'VE believe in honest money, the
gold and silver coinage of the constitu-
ton, and circulating medium convert
ihle into such money without loss"
Again: Instead of the Republican
9artys British policy. we demand for
the people of the United States an
American policy"
Upon this platform Grover Cleveland
was first elected; can it be possible that
he never read it; can it be that he has
forgotten it, or is it true that he de-
signedly used it as a plank upon which
to cross the stream Of discomfort, into
the sea Of human confidence there to
fish for gold suckers? Honest money;
the gold and silver coinage of the con-
stitution. What did it mean? What
could it have meant but the silver dollar
as the unit, and gold and silver coined
at the ratio of 16 to /? The Democracy
elected Cleveland as its general to lead
the fight for an American policy, but
instead of getting the American policy
/
the British lion got our general. Cleve-
land holds the position to Democracy
today which the general in Sheridan S
army did 20 the army when Sheridan
met him retreating before the victorious
Early; 20, sir" said the general in
command, eve are beaten" mo,
sir.'' was the reply by Sheridan
You are beaten, but this army is not
beaten" So the Democracy assem-
bled at Chicago said TO Cleveland:
The British policy may have captured
you, but the citizens of these United
States will get, enforce and keep the
American policy"
In 1888 the Democratic party of the
United States, in convention assem-
bled, reafIirmed the platform adopted
by its representatives at the conven-
! ton of 1854. and Cleveland again ac-
cepted the nomination and went be-
fore the people on that platform.
In 1892 for the first time in the
history of the Democratic party
manned as she was by such leaders
as have lately met their Waterloo at
the hands of the people, whom they
had pledged themselves to represent,
and have failed to keep the pledge;
leaders who now favor a sound Demo-
cratic ticket professed to indirectly
support Mckinley and British gold
currency adjusted through interna-
tional agreement They were success
full at the polls, and the other nations,
seeing the United States exhibit this
craven disposition, believed the ancient
fires of independence to have died out;
and these nations, through their finan-
cial dictator-Engl her
to issue bonds in time OF peace; to seek
support in foreign lands; to become
the subservient slave Of England or
declare anew her independence.
Believing that she had created such
spirit oil mistrust in the minds of
the people against the word Democra-
cy that the people would no longer
session of the Republican party, her
heretofore arch enemy, and asks that
it be enthroned in power on gold
platform.
The Democracy saw the error of the
ways of her leaders, as the people are
now seeing them, and she was great
enough-as the people will prove them
selves to be-to correct the error, even
though it result in retiring into eternal
innoxious desuetude all such leaders,
in whatever party found.
In this land of free thought and
free action men and women may refuse
to support Bryan and Sewall, but they
who so refuse cannot assign as a rea-
son that they are too utterly Demo-
cratic; because at nearly every nation
al convention the Democracy consid-
cred the financial question and never
proposed the gold standard. If party
action or party declarations can be
relied upon, we must conclude that
there can be no sound Democracy
without recognition first of the in