The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-03

NEW YORK, Aug. Burke Cock
ran returned last Saturday from Eu-
rope by the steamer Paris. Mr.. Cock
ran did not forget American politics
during his trip, and he has evolved a
plan by which he thinks the defeat of
the Chicago candidates may be en-
comprised. Speaking of the situation,
he said:
4 regard If as the gravest in the
history of the country, exceeding in
Importance the crisis of 1860
The secession movement was but an
attempt to divide this country between
two governments, each of them design
ed to protect property within the lin
It's of its jurisdiction. The movement
launched at Chicago is an attempt TO
paralyze industry by using all the pow
erS of government to take property
from the hands of those who created it
and place it in the hands of those who
covet it. This is
A QUESTION OF MORALS,
as well as politics. No political con-
vention can issue a valid license to
commit offenses against morality, and
l decline to follow Mr.. Bryan in a cru
SADIE against honesty and the rights of
labor
DO you mean that you will actively
oppose the Democratic party, or abb
stain from active support of it?''
In a contest for the existence of civ
ilization no man can remain neutral
Whoever does not support the forces of
order. aids the forces of disorder. If l
can do anything to thwart movement,
the success of which l should regard as
an irreparable calamity not only to this
country, but to civilized society every
where, 1 shall certainly do it,
"What do you think of Tammany's
action in indorsing the ticket?''
Il simply can't understand it. They
strongly opposed the platform at Chi
cago on the ground that it was an as
sault on the
INTEGRITY OF THE NATION.
.'They decline to ratify even now,
which shows that they have not chang
ed their opinion of it, Yet they have
endorsed the candidate who stands upon
If and whose election will mean that
the platform which they have denounc-
ed as a singular combination of lunacy
and villainy shall be incorporated into
seWill you support Major Mckinley
outright. or do you favor the nomina-
ton of another Democratic ticket"
IT believe that all Democrats who
are so thoroughly in favor of sound
money that they place the defeat OF
BRYAN above the interests of any orga-
n:Zat:on or party should meet in con-
vention for the purpose of considering
the former method, during which they
can give the
GREATEST EFFICIENCY TO THE
OPPOSITION.
For nv part, 1 do not believe that the
domination of other candidates Tor
president and vice-president, however
eminent and deserving they might De
personally or politically, would serve
any useful purpose. Nobody peHeVeS
that they could be elected, ana any
Democrat whose hostility to Popullsm
and Republicanism would not arrow hiiil
To support either Bryan or Mckinley
con1d show his opposition to both by
remaining at nome on election cay
quite as well as voting for third tick
81 It would be more convenient TO
himself individually, and would not
create visible separation between
himself and his party organization
seRut how can men, rupturing party
ties be sustained by some sense OIL as
sociation among themselves
."rhat end can be attained by the
adontion of a platform declaring Tor
sound money against extravaganza ap-
preparations; in favor of
ECONOMICAL ADMINISTRATION
in every department of the government;
in favor of tariff for revenue only ana
ample for the purpose; against the pa
ternalism of the Republican party anu
the Populistic socialism of both the
chicago and St. Louis conventions; in
favor of that American liberty which
can be maintained by so limiting the
newer of the government that 1T can
never interfere with the daily concerns
of law-abiding citizens. The plank OF
messing importance in such apt form
is. of course. the currency plank. Now,
the mere election of Mckinley will be
the defeas of the silver movement.
your obvious policy, then. would
be to endorse Mckinley electors?
"Precisely. The Democrats who Will
have achieved the success of their n
nancial plank by the election OF Nc
Kinley will yet constitute an opposition
to the Republican party the day after
election, DdSeu Oh principles NAAASii SSh y
certain to be ultimately adopted by the
American people. What is needed, there
fore, is not a new ticket, but
A NEW PLATFORM
which will declare in unmistakable IAN
guage the cardinal features of the party
faith and which, while endorsing NC
Kinley electors. will provide for re-
ally Democratic opposition to the Nc
Kinley administration during the period
of iSs existence
what is your opinion of the ulti-
mate outlook"
.,EverythiEg depends on the manner
in which it is waged. To my mind there
is but one test of prosperity which can
be applied to a country, and that is the
rate of wages paid to laborers. There
Can ne no prosperity where low WAGES
acs paid. There can he no distress
where the rata Of wages is high. 1t