The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-01

CHICAGO. Oct. SIN. A. Hanna made
his last official appeal to the voters and
denunciation of,the combined opposition,
as chairman Of the Republican nationars
committee. tonight. as follows:
THE earnest Support which the 1oval4
citizens of the United States, Irrespective
OF former political affiliations, have rem
dered the Republican party and the cause.
of sound money In the campaign about
10 end, 1ustifles an expression from those
VINO nave Deen called upon TO conduct It.
No campaign since the war of the
rebellion has presented such grave re-
sponsibilities TO those entitled to the
cipleS represented by the Chicago plat
form that proposes not only a de5Sse-
ment or the currency, but the destruction
OF the highest judicial authority of the
land. have justified good citizens. irres-
pectlve of past party preferences, in unit
ing TO rebuke those who would thus en-
danger the very foundation OF our ma
uonal organization.
abandoning their time-honored princi-
p-eS of a strict construction of the con-
stitution. the supporters of that PLATFORM
propose a system which endangerS the
very life of the constitution, and of the,
nation itself. The proper enforcement
Of law, recognition OF the highest tri-
bunal OF the land, the maintenance of the
high and unvdrying standard of our me-
drum OF exchange, the payment of obi
cations, public and private, in a cur
they were made; are all repudiated and
denounced both by the platform and the
candidate placed upon it. The appeals to
prejudice, to SelfisnneSS and to passion,
the efforts to array the employed against
the employer and labor against that
which furnishes him with desirable labor,
have led good citizens without respect
TO party lines, and thoughtful working
men. Irrespective Of the class of Their
employment, to array themselves against
the methods which would endanger gov
eminent and property rights and the en-
ployment which they guarantee
1t is gratifying to know that the two
classes of citizens to whom these a.
psalS have been most strongly directed
the farmers and the workingmen OF the
cities and towns-have resented the inpu-
tatiOnS which have been placed upon
them by the assumption that they desire
to deal falsely with those with ,vhOm
they have business relations, or with the
people of the nation The proposition
that the farmer may repudiate portion
dollar worth but half that which he
agreed to pay has been a sindignantly
rejected as that which assumes that the
workingman held principles which he was
ashamed TO avow and which are danger
Gus to the peace of the nation.
The Developments OF the closing week
of the campaign leave no doubt that the
overwhelming majority OF the people OF
the nation are against the platform and
candidate of reputation and national dis
honor.
ut is hoped. therefore. that all good
citizens will join hands on Tuesday in
ma n tanning the honor of the nation by
registering their ballots in favor of that
ceSidate who has been honOred by the
support of loyal men of all parties-Will-
Ia, Mckinley. The issue is between
two men and two platforms, the one
representing national honor, good govern
ment, sound money and sound princi-
pes: the other standing for doctrines
dangerous to the peace and prosperity Of
the nation. and promising only a system
which must debase the currency, DEFY
business and end employment. II is, as
has been recently said by Major Me-
Kinley himself a time when the voice OF
the partisan is hushed in the chorus of
tie patriotism which sounds from one
IN. A. HANNA,
Chairman Republican National Com
r,:ttee',