The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-23

story printed Sy your paper and if
they printed another which somehow
1 did not deny, your paper would take
it for granted and say that the last
story were true? If I were to deny all
the untrue things that will be saie4 Z
would have little time for anything
else.
When l. spoke to Mr.. Bryan last,
before he came to New York, he was
in the Sherman house at Chicago.
There he was at the head of the con-
testing delegation from Nebraska,
always the center of a crowd of adj
mirers. with whom he was courteous.
modest and earnest in his devotion to
silver. When he came to New York
one would naturally expect that there
would be some change in his manner
that he would show in his bearing
and conversation some evidence of the
great honor thrust upon him; but he
was the same modest, genial, courage
Gus Bryan who served in congress. He
was the same Bryan who addressed the
Ogden Democratic convention last
year. He greeted men in jeans as
warmly as he greeted the fashionably
dressed men that came to see him.
Everybody had smile and q cheerful
word from him. Honor sat upon him
easily and lightly. 1t had not turned
his brain.
This is the time when the southern
Republican leaders can develop vast
faith in the strength of the party in
their states. They speak of hope in
Georgia, through divisions among the
Democrats, due to Watson's candidacy.
They tell of the immense strength of
the gold Democratic faction in Alabama.
They talk of Tennessee Kentucky, Ar
kansas and Texas and volubly promise
that these states will be redeemed this
year from their state Of rocl-ribbed
Democracy.
But it is an old game. The only hope
of the southern Republican is in pres
idential year. Then the agents of can
didates are sent out to purchase the
negro delegates. Then the Republican
campaign barrel is to be opened. Natur-
ally the local leader is anxious to get
all he can to tide him over for the COM
ing four years of privation.
He is likely to be disappointed this
year. Hanna has already filed a very
large barrel, but he has practically an
nounced that this will be used III the
middle states, where it is intended to
inaugurate a campaign Of corruption
that will be the envy of Quay and Dud-
ley. The south will be neglected. The
Pacific states will be given a great
deal of attention, and the committee
will reach out as far as the western
line of Kansas But Utah, Colorado,
Montana, Wyoming and Nevada need
expect nothing. They are regarded as
silver-lined states.
John A. Mccall of the New York Life
Insurance company is neglecting no OPP
portunity to show his opposition to sill
yer. A few blocks above City Hall
park, on Broadway, the New York Life
is preparing to erect a great building,
and high fence has been put UP
around the excavation. On this is a
huge sign, reading:
When six inches make one foot,
When eight ounces make one pound.
When sixteen quarts make one bushel,
Then so cents will make 81,
And the Populists will govern the
United States"
Other signs are constantly being
added This is but one of the methods
adopted by the gold men. They are
sparing no money in pushing their
cause. The Bourke Cochran meeting
was the most extensively and expen-
sively advertised affair of its kind that
has been held in New York for many
wears