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

| to see MN elected out says lnaI he
! believes there are few grounds upon
/ which to base a belief tSlat his hopes
will be gratified. To a friend he said
yesterday that Mckinley has no show
| to carry his own state and that if the
! election were to be held at once Ohio
would go from 10000 to 10000 majority
! for Bryan and Sewall. Judge Richie
gives as a reason for this statement
the further one that the Ohio Farmer
is a weekly farming Journal which is
read and believed by the farmers OF
| Ohio as they read and believe the BIZ
bic This journal has been advocating
the free coinage of silver for several
years until the farmers of Ohio nave
come to advocate it even as does the
| journal Itself. They have also been
| taught by the paper TO expect that
when silver was remonetized it would
come through the Republican party.
Now that the Republican party has
failed them the Ohio Farmer has gone
over to Bryan and Sewall and the
farmers who have followed its lead
for these many years, are f1ocking over
with it to man. Judge Richie says
that unless the tide can be turned
Governor Mckinley will lose his own
state by an overwhelming majority.
Several days ago il was predicted IN
! these columns that split in the Re
publican party in Utah was one OF
| the things TO be looked for with the
! opening of the campaign and the mold
| ing of the conventions. Developments
since that time, such as there have
been, all point TO the correctness of
! that prediction, and as the days go
! by there is added room for the belief
! that the differences of opinion over the
! financial question will not be bridged
| by any sort of a compromise that may
be suggested to bring the silver Repub-
/ licans and the Mckinley faction OF the
party together.
! The statement made at the time of
the publication referred to, that the
/ Mckinley men would endeavor to con-
| troll the convention and prevent the
silver Republicans from participating
! therein, is borne out in an ever grow
! ing belief in the minds of the latter
/ that such will be the purpose Of the
/ Mckinley men who will conduct their
4 fight along the lines Of the quaiifica-
/ tions a man must possess to be emit
! tied to sit in 4 Republican conven-
ton, the edict to go forth from the
/ committee which IS made up, accord
! ing TO present calculations of major
/ ity of Mckinley Republicans, that no
man who asserts the intention OF sup
/ porting BRYAN and SeWall is a Repub-
] lica,l no matter what his inclinations
may be aside from the silver issue.
/ This is where the sticker comes. The
! Republicans who desire to support the
/ silver ticket maintain that they are
/ just as good Republicans as they ever
! FoIy ;,,la NOT
! have it that way. and as one is appar-
! emily as determined as the other not
! to give up his convictions, the man will
/ be a wiser one than Brigham Young
] or Solomon either who can devise a
/ scheme that will keep the party to-
/ gether on the state ticket, for if the
/ silver Republicans are not 10 be per-
mitted to sit IL their convention they
/ cannot be expected to support a ticket
nominated by that convention.
On the other hand the silver Repub-
licans say they will be found voting at
/ the primaries called by the Republican
4 committee, and if they insist on this
determination nothing short of free
/ fight will stop them, and lin that they
would be apt and more than that, TO
/ come off the victors from sheer force
of numbers, for no one will attempt to
say they do not greatly outnumber the
( Mckinley adherents. Such a course
Will hardly be resorted to, or is at least
not to be expected, but the fact re-
mains that conflict is bound to en-
sue. the outcome of which it now seems
certain will be two sets of primaries
and two sets of conventions, and there
you have it; the party is split unless
one side or the other gives in, and
there is no prospect that either will.
I The only conclusion to be drawn is that
there will be two Republican tickets
in the field.
It is now confidently expected that
the address which the Republican ex-
ecutive committee has been threaten
ing to hurl az the people for long
time will. if it is ever promulgated, de-
clare that it is the duty of every man
who processes to be a Republican to
vote for William Mckinley and trust
to time to bring the party back to the
/ side of silver, at the same time point
ing out that to be a Republican entitled
to sit in a Republican convention a
man cannot repudiate the platform
adopted by the national convention or
the candidate nominated upon it; that
they who do are outside the party and
have no right or standing in its con-
Nt0llOnS. i nat the dUuFeSS VIII De
issued seems likely in view of the per-
sonnet of the committee, as a majority
are accredited with being Mckinley
men. but whether it will have the de-
sired effect may be judged from the
foregoing.
Last evening the Workingmen's
Bryan Club No. of Utah met at the
board of labor and effected a perma-
nent organization. The following Of
ficers were unanimously elected: B. A
Harbour, president; NJ. L. Perry, vice
president; Laron Cummings, secretary !;
Stephen Tyne, treasurer
Ten minutes after the news of Bry-
ans nomination by the Chicago con-
vention was received in this city, this
club was temporarily organized, and
now consists of something over 200 ac-
tive members and their slumber is
steadily increasing. Each individual
member is very enthusiastic and will
do his utmost TO advance the cause of
silver.