The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-01


cur people felt called upon to accord
to Senator Arthur Brown while he was
in the mining camp Sunday apparently
had little effect on the spirits OF the
leader of the Mckinley supporters in
Utah On the contrary, Senator Brown
paid very little attention TO the slight
discourtesy that was shown him.
When seen yesterday, Mr. Brown dis
played the same air of confidence-that
he had done nothing at St. Louis which
would deprive him of his powers in poll
itics in Utah-that has marked his
bearing since his return home.
That his confidence in this regard is
not without good grounds, Mr.. Browns
friends appear Just as confident as he.
One of them. said yesterday: You will
see that Arthur Brown will be the big
toad in the Republican puddle before
this falls campaign is over. He is just
as good silver man as any in the
party and it is not because he is not
that he is determined to support the
Republican ticket. It is because he is
Republican that he is staying by the
party
Mr.. Brown has got a record to refer
the people to and that is something
which the boilers have not. The Re
publicans Of the state will be made IA
paign is over, and when that is con-
trasted with the records of Mr.. Can
non and Mr.. Allen, we will see who
has the following in the Republican
party"
That Senator Brown puts great store
by his record in the senate there can
be no doubt and he proposes to give
his constituents an opportunity to learn
OF it for themselves from the Congress
sional Record itself. Last Sunday about
forty big bales containing copies of the
Record were carried to Mr.. Browns
Office on Main street. There were sew
eral thousand copies and they will be
mailed to the junior senator's con-
stituents for the purpose of informing
them of his course in congress and es-
pecially concerning his. attitude to-
ward the Dingley substitute which he
believes was not one to be ashamed
of and which he believes. when under
stood, will put him in a more favorable
light among those who have seen fit to
criticise him for his action in that in
stance. There is very little doubt that
Mr.. Brown will be a candidate for re-
election before the next legislature.
Two bits of information were picked
up Yesterday which will tend to illus
tratc the progress silver is making in
gaining hold upon the people.
John Dern. president of the Mercur
Mining company returned Monday
from a trip to his former home at
Fremont, Neb. In conversation with a
Herald reporter. Mr. Defn said that he
attended a grange meeting near Ere
mont shortly before his departure for
the west. at which an editor of a Ger
man paper who had been invited to
address inc
Ject of politics after he had finished
lis regular discourse, and made an
argument in favor of the single gold
standard. After he had left the mes..-
ing the members of the society. moved
by the remarks of the kaisers subject.
fell 10 discussing the financial problem
which confrontS the country Several
gentlemen expressed their views and
finally it was decided to take a vote
of those assembled to get a sense of
how the community stood with refer
ence to gold and silver. The vote was
taken, and it resulted unanimously in
favor of the free coinage of silver with
out awaiting the action of any ether
nation. The action of the meeting had
no political significance farther than
TO satisfy the curiosity of the gather
ing, but 1t serves tc show the feelings
of the farming element in Nebraska.
which has been held to be questionable
as regards the silver issue.
The other piece of news referred 10
Will create some surprise among those
PEOPLE, and there are d good many Of
them, who have all along argued that
silver stood no show of carrying the
day IN Minnesota. 1t came in a letter
10 Hon. D. H. To0mey, who came to
Salt Lake recently from Fargo. Da-
7d rn4a f,a--
as a prominent Republican, both in
Minnesota and North Dakota. The
lette;, which a Herald reporter was
permitted to see, stated that Congress-
man c. a. Towne Of Minnesota, had
come out with a declaration that he
had left the the Republican party.
would not support the St. Louis plat
form and ticket, and that he would
run for Congress again this fall indie
peldently and on a free silver plat
form.
Congressman Towne has been one Of
tie strongest Republicans in northern
Minnesota, and at his home at Duluth
has been party leader whose die
tates have generally been followed
with little question. His withdrawal
from the party and his espousal of the
cause of silver but evidences the strides
the cause is making toward success in
Minnesota as in other sections of the
country.
The Sandy Republicans are in some
what of a pickle to know what to do
relative to supporting the ST Louis
ticket or boiling it. as was evidenced
by a meeting which was held at the
city hall there last Saturday night.
The meeting was called to organize
he of
to the board of county commissioners
for the selection of registrars and the
subject of ratifying the nominations of
the Republican convention came I'D.
Ii WAS found that the precinct was di-
vided, some endorsing the boilers and
others favoring a ratification of the
nomination and the support of the
ticket. The subject was vigorously
discussed, but the silver men appar-
emily had the best of it, for the result
of the meeting was a decision to await
the action of the Democ1 attic conven-
ton at Chicago before 1t was decided
to take any steps toward holding a
ratification meeting Two meetings
were held. one in the Sixty-eighth and
one in the Sixty-ninth voting districts
Sandy precinct, and both came to a
conclusion with the same result.
In the SiXey-eighth district a cam
paign committee was elected, comp
ed Of Representative ". W. Wilson,
L. F. Lundgren. T E Marriott t. E.
Anderberg and H s. IMMERSION. The
names selected for registrars to be
chosen from were: W. w. Wilson, L
A. Lundberg and George Marriott
In the Sixty-ninth district the COM
mittee elected is composed of Samue-
Perry. H. Hartviksen, Ray Kemp, Al.
bert Cooper and ]. R. Drinkwater. The
names submitted for reeistrars were