The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-26
ANOTHER STATE HEARD FROM.

The Republicans of another state,
through their regular convention, have
spoken both as to the issues and the
candidates for the pending national
campaign-New York state.
The utterances Of the convention on
the financial question-about the only
thing of first rate Importance these
days-is somewhat more explicit in re-
spect to sound money than was the
Ohio platform, in that it denounces the
agitation of free coinage of silver, as
seriously disturbing industrial inter
ests, and fatty declares for the gold
standard until there is a prospect
for International agreement as to sill
yer coinage. This is the plank:
The agitation for the free coinage of
silver at the ratio of is to l seriously
for clear statement of the Republican
attitude upon this question, to the end
that the trade of this country at home
and abroad may again be placed upon
a sound and stable foundation.
We recognize in the movement for
the free coinage of silver an attempt to
degrade the long established standard
of our monetary system. and hence a
blow to public and private credit, at
once harmful to our domestic and for
eign commerce.
Until there is a prospect of interna-
tional agreement as to silver coinage,
and while gold remains the standard
of the United States and of the civil
lied world, the Republican party of
New York declares in favor of the firm
and honorable maintenance of that
standard.
This, we think, is somewhat nearer
the spirit of the plank than will be
adopted at st. Louis than anything yet
offered by the several states where the
adopted platforms, and that it means
straight, single gold standard admits
of no doubt.
On the platform adopted tine New
York Republicans offer to the national
convention Levi P. Morton, governor
of New York, as a candidate for
president, and whom they rep
resent, and that truly, as "a bust
ness man with business men, and as
likely to be "a business president"
This in brief is his record, and char
acter as proclaimed by his friends and
admirers in the convention:
He has been a representative in con-
gress, minister to France, vice-presi-
dent, governor of New York, and each
of these positions he has filled with
an ability which has never been sur
passed, with lasting credit to himself
and great benefit to his state and to
his country. His grasp of public af-
fairs was never so clear and compre-
hensive as it is today, and his ability
to labor earnestly for the welfare of
the nation was never so distinctively
marked as now Governor Morton's
long and varied public career offers
proof positive that he is a sincere and
earnest Republican, and fidelity to the
principles of his party is with him a
second nature. He stands for honesty
in public office. There is no doubt as
to -he esteem in which he is held at
home. Two years since he polled over
$4,000 more votes than the most popu-
lar Democrat in the state, receiving
by far the greatest majority ever given
a Republican candidate for governor.
Governor Morton's long. honorable
public service, his sDotless character
his great executive ability, his devo-
ton to his party and its principles emf
nently fit him for the presidency and
entitle him to our hearty and enthusi-
astic support
The eulogy concludes by instructing
the New York delegates to employ
every honorable means for his nomi-
nation at the st. Louis convention.
The statement in the above-"His grasp
of public affairs was never so clear
and comprehensive as it is today, and
his ability to labor earnestly for the
welfare of the nation was never so dis
tinctly marked as now''-sounds very
like an apology for offering so old a
man for candidate as Mr. Morton, who
is now seventy-two years of age
We believe Mr.. Morton to be a gem
tleman of high character and honorable
life; and if the next president of the
United States must be a Republican
and a single gold standard man, we
know of no one that we would sooner
see elected than he.