The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-04

/ had been carried out or not, whether
Z they approved of the action of Senator
! Cannon and the other delegates who
! walked out of the convention at ST.
Louis in token of their disapproval of
! the monetary plank in the platform of
/ that convention
The people of Titan would never cast
( their votes for William Mckinley, but
they would do so for William ]. Bryan.
/ Great applause.) If this was the ac-
ton Of traitors, the speaker was going
with Senator Cannon to take his stand
with the traitors. (Applause.)
Mr.. Allen referred to the action of
the Mingo sGnelter people in threaten
ing to close down their works, ostensi-
bly, because the tariff of 1c. per pound
ON lead, as compared with Dc under
the Mckinley bill, was not sufficient
protection. Lead was low in New York,
but where had the tariff gone? The
fact was that owing to our monetary
system the people didn't have money
to buy lead 90 paint their fences and
i'm consequence of the absence of de-
mand, lead had gone down to a point
where the tariff could do it no good
The consumption had fallen off, and
neither the Mckinley nor any other
tariff could increase it. Mr.. Schwartz
president of the Minge Smelter COM
pa1ly, was making the argument of all
corporations, and his argument was
answered at Columbus, o., an a Bryan
meeting when a brawry son of told
called out that they could lead horse
to the water but they couldn't make
him drink" The Australian ballot sys-
tenn was now in force, and the work.
ingman could cast his vote and none
but God and tine voters wife ever know
for whom he had voted.
IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS.
Al address and resolutions which
were to have been read by E. NJ. ALI
son, jr.. were presented by Mr.. Muir
ply, Mr. Allisons father having sus-
tanned a. serious accident which pre-
vented his son from being present.
The resolutions. which were adopted
without a dissenting vote and with
great enthusiasm, were as follows:
To the Men and Women of Utah:
Fully impressed with the seriousness of
the present political situation in Utah, the
following reasons are offered in behalf
Of the proposed resolutions:
Because of the ill-advised, or at least
the unfortunate determination of a ma
jority OF the Republican state central
committee to use the machinery OF the
party to make the nomination OF Mckinley
electors and of a new state central COM
mittee in the Mckinley interest seem
the regular work of the party, the rank
and nle of the party which includes at
least three-fourths of the whole, have
been driven TO the necessity of taking in
dependent action
In the Republican territorial conven-
ton held at Provo, September II, 1894,
for the purpose of nominating territorial
officers, and a candidate for congress,
Hon. Arthur l. Thomas reported the plat
form which was adopted, and one plank
of which was:
I'VE recognize the silver question as
one of paramount Importance to The Poop e,
and we believe that no full prosperity can
be enjoyed until silver shall be restored,
and we demand its RECOMMENDATION on the
old ratio with gold at 16 to l."
On the 18th of August, 1895, at a terri
torial convention called for the purpose
of nominating candidates to fill various
member of congress, the Hon Clarence
E. Allen reported a platform, of which
the following was a plank:
Irrespective of the action of any ma
ton, we demand the reconciliation and
free and unlimited coinage of silver at
the ratio of Is to l. and we pledge the
Republican party Of Utah TO work for the
accomplishment of this demand
Again, on April 7th of the present year,
at a state convention held in Salt Lake
city, for the purpose of nominating dele
gates to attend the national convention at
st. Louis, which was to nominate candi-
dates for president and vice-president, the
Hon. William Nelson reported a. platform
which was adopted. and which contained
the following plank:
We believe in a protective tariff; we
believe in resprocity; we believe in BIZ
metallism, which is the full recognition
alike of gold and silver, and their free
coinage in the minis of the nation at the
ratio of 16 to L.
The same resolution declared the belief
that a protective tariff would be inn
potent to restore prosperity without the
restoration Of silver. And further, that
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