The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-24
WHERE IS THE 1INE2
THE BATTLE IN THE GREAT MID
DIE WEST.
That Section Has Become thorough
" Educated on the Financial
QuestiOn-There Are Jake Green
waIds in Ohio as Well as In Utah
-"Lunss, Lunacy and larceny
Very Bitter Reverend.

puts the east against the west and south
Florida and Georgia, next month. will
emphasize the verdict of the south. The
west is impatient to endorse their action
In November New England and Penn
sylvania promise to duplicate the results
IN the two eastern states that have held
elections.
the dividing line. Where will it be
drawn? On the eastern boundary of
Kansas and Nebraska and the northern
boundary OF Arkansas, Tennessee and
Virginia? On the eastern shore of the
mississippi and northern shore of the
Ohio? Or on the eastern line of Indiana
or even of New York?
The battle is in the middle west. Min
Illinois, Indiana. Kentucky, West Vir-
ginia. Maryland, Ohio and New York
are the real battle grounds. They are
called upon to say whether they will go
Wlth the great interior agricultural senti-
ment, or with the money sentiment of
the east
In this connection one must consider
the conditions that have marked the
financial campaign in these states here
tofore, and when that is considered the
silver men will find they have by far the
best reason to hope for success.
When Mckinley insisted before the
81. Louis convention that the word gold
should not be placed in the Republican
platform and the leaders in all the doubt
ful states stood with him, he and they
admitted that the sentiment in their
districts was against the gold standard.
General Henderson of Iowa, with tears
in his eyes, begged the gold leaders, who,
with the vote of the east and the cor
rupt delegates from the south were fore
ing through the programme of Wall
street, not to put Iowa in danger. Gov
ernor Bushnell said a gold platform
could not carry Ohio. One after another
of these leaders said the Republican
voters of the border states would not en-
dorse such a platform.
Why was this? Because the people of
the middle west have been silver men
for years. Both parties have said they
were friends of silver. Republicans, dur
ing the last four years especially, have
arraigned the Democratic party in those
states because Grover Cleveland would
give no recognition to silver. They have
cried that the Republicans would re-
cognize the white metal and that the
Democrats would never do SO.
The middle west has become thoroughly
educated ON the financial question. The
Bimetallic league and, later, the BIZ
metallic union have been spreading the
free silver propaganda for years and
farmers have been able to convince them
selves that the pleas of both Democrats
and Republicans for more money have
been well founded.
1t may be asserted safely, therefore,
that at the time the Republican conVen-
ton met in st. Louis great majority of
the voters of the middle west were in
favor of the free coinage of silver and
We're opposed to the idea of waiting for
consent of any European nation before
establishing our finances upon a proper
basis. The machines that took sub
servient delegates to the convention did
not represent the true sentiment of the
people, nor did the verdict really repre-
sent the views of the enlightened people
in the party. The convention in the end
was controlled by delegates from New
England. in which the silver cause had
hlar rive hoo n nn
corrupt delegates from the south.
If all the silver men in the United
States would vote for the silver candi-
date almost every state in the union out
side of New England would be swept.
But there are Jake GreenWalds in Ohio
and Illinois as well as in Utah. They
would follow the Republican party if it
was headed by a yellow dog. All they
what the creed. They worship party.
Such men, no matter how enthusiastic
for silver they might have been two
months ago. will now work and vote for
the Republican ticket.
But independence of ideas among Re
publicans has been helped vastly by the
boiling of President Cleveland and his
cabinet and the various So-called Demo-
cratic leaders that have taken up the
cause of Mckinley. Numbers of silver
men in the middle west have come to be-
lieve that all party lines are down and
that the issue is one which calls for a
disregard of all partisan feelings.
From reports that have been received
from the middle west, there now seems to
be no doubt that Bryan will carry Ne
braska, Kentucky, West Virginia and IL
linois, of the doubtful states, and that he
has the best of the argument in Michigan,
Indiana, Iowa, Maryland and West Vir-
gnia. Minnesota, Ohio and New York
may be placed in the list of states where
Bryan has a fighting chance. With a solid
west and solid south, Maryland, Ken
lucky Illinois, West Virginia and Ne
braska, Bryan is elected.
The statement that the Hanna barrel
has not stopped short even of our pulpits
seems justified by the actions of many of
the New York clergy in this campaign. DR..
Burchard has many emulators. 1t may be
that they are simply seeking notoriety,
that they are forced by their congrega-
lions into their attitudes or that they are
being paid for their attempt to use the
livery of heaven to serve the devil in" At
any rate, they are dabbling in politics.
The lungs, lunacy and larceny" state
ment of DR.. Macarthur has received suffi-
cient notice. and the notoriety it brought
him has apparently stirred I'D number
Brooklyn. The most shameless minister
however, is Rev. Thomas Dixon, who has
been preaching in the Academy of Music,
talking the doctrine of rancor and hatred,
instead of the gospel of love and peace.
Last Sunday he had an orchestra and
other such attractions and made such a
speech that person was compelled to
remember he waS-in reiiSious service or he
might have thought himself in a gold
meeting. Applause and laughter were not
only allowed during the sermon, but an
evident effort was made to attract them.
Here are some of Mr.. Dixon'S choice SEN
fences:
"I may not understand the technique of
finance, but | do understand results ANY
hen may lay an egg, and while may not
know the technique by which that egg
is laid, | seriously maintain that l am a
better judge of eggs than all the hens in
the universe daughter and appIausel
The proposition that the nation shall.
eSty, take 50 cents worth of silver and
coin it into a dollar and force everyone.
by its authority, backed up by it's armies
to accept it as such-that is the PROPOSE
ton they put before us. For whose bene-
fit, in Gods name? For that OF the mil
lionaire silver mine owner"
IF I borrowed from the. devil in hell
it would be the part of honesty to pay him
back in as good coin as that loaned to
me- If those who loaned to us in our
distress are as black as they are painted.
if they are thieves and shylocks, we still
want to pay back to them as good money
as we got"
Rev. Cortland Myers was as bitter in
his use of the doctrine of hate He
preached in the Baptist temple Brooklyn,
and here are some Of the things he said:
The Chicago platform was made in
Glass making and disunion never came
from that upper world. No, no. It was
from the lower world, and Altgeld and
his comrades were the stenograpflers of
his satanic majesty.
Jefferson would hold his hands I'D in
holy horror at almost every clause in the
Chicago platform. The great leaders of
the party were the first ones to reDiIdia re-