The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-26
TELLER GIVES
THEM FACTS
Republican Party is the Gold
bug Party.
HAS NO USE FOR SILVER
International BimetaIIism a
Ba!d-Headed Fraud.
HAS NO USE FOR SILVER
Had the Colorado Patriot Had Even
the Shadow of a Belief That
There Was Any Hope For Silver
i'm the Republican Party He
Would Never Have Left It-Some
Words That Burn.
Especial to The Herald.)

CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 25.-The
most successful political gathering ever
held in Wyoming was the meeting held
here tonight to ratify the nomination
of Bryan and Sewall
Turner hall, the largest audience
room in Cheyenne, was crowded almost
to suffocation during the meeting. and
many were turned away unable to en-
ter. On the platform were a number
of prominent citizens from all parts OF
the state.
The meeting was presided over by
General John Charles Thompson, who
opened the meeting with an eloquent
review of the political situation as it
exists with all parties having placed
their candidates in the field and an
nounced their platforms.
Hon. c. P. Arnold was introduced
and paid a glowing tribute to the can
didate of the Democratic party He
alluded, in a witty manner, to the di-
lemma of the Republican managers of
the state, who on the financial ques-
ton, stood first on one foot and then
ON the other.
The guest of the evening,
SENATOR HENRY M. TELLER,
was then introduced, and the immense
audience applauded him enthusiastic
ally for nearly five minutes.
Senator Teller, for nearly two hours,
discussed the great question of the
day in the clear, forcibae and convinc-
ing manner which has made him the
idol OF The west, and won from the
audience constant attention and I'M
limited applause. He said that the
silver question should need no advo-
cacy in wyoming, where both great
parties had at their last state conven-
tons declared for free coinage. The
Republican voters of the state, he be-
lieyed. were for free coinage, but the
party managers still held out the hope
that there was some hope for silver IN
the Republican party. He read the
financial plank of the st. Louis con-
vention and said that it offered
ABSOLUTELY NO HOPE FOR b.
METALLISM.
If it had, he would not have left the
Republican party, of which he had
been member from the day of it's
birth.
The Republican leaders" he said,
"are trying to divert attention from
silver, the paramount issue, to the
hackneyed subject of the tariff, but as
a. believer in the tariff idea, 1 ann sure
that no legislation affecting the tariff
will afford relief to this country at
this time
Senator Teller then reviewed the
financial history of the country and OF
England from 1916 when the latter
country adopted the gold standard. He
pictured the distress that has been
the lot of this country since in 1873 the
conditions which had existed since the
foundation of government were med
died with, and said the American peo-
nile are now brought face to face with
the question, is the gold system a good
thing for us to have? He challenged
any advocate of the system to deny
his assertion. that there was not sill
ver-using country in the world but
what had improved during the past
ten or twenty years. The ST. Louis
convention was the first time that a
great body of American people had
declared the American people incapable
of sef-govern1nent.
az want to impress upon you that
this is no ordinary question of politics.
1t is the greatest question presented to
!, American people in 100 years. 1t is as
important a question as that which
took the three million OF men unde,
arms in 1861"
in 1861"
Mr.. Teller paid a high tribute to the
Democratic candidate for president.
He had known him for years and de-
clared that no purer or better had
been nominated for the presidency by
either party for many years, than Mr.
Bryan.
In closing, Senator Teller said if his
Republican friends expected any help
from Mckinley for silver, they were
building ON false hopes. Mr.. Mckinley
had accepted the platform of his
party. and if elected and found doing
anything but what that platform de-
manded would be despised by every
one.
'If you want to support Mckinley
you should come out openly for the colo
standard: if you are for silver yor
cannot be for Mckinley and be honest
or true to yourselves. The people OF
Wyoming know where their interests
lie, and know that in November theil
ballots should be for Bryan and sill
YER"
Ex-Governor Osborne made the clos
ing speech of the evening. He showed
i'm a clear manner the inconsistency O
the Republican leaders of the state
) who had been on all sides of the finan
cha. question in the last few years, ant
!, now do not know where they stand.
. The Bryan men are greatly encour
aged at the success of the ratification