The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-24
PAYING FOR HIS JOB.
A NEW CABINET OFFICER DOES, 1T
In A LETTER-
A Bitter Denunciation of Bryan and
the Chicago Platform-Sees So
cial Disorder In Case Bryan Is
Elected.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-In reply to
the invitation of Attorney General
Walker of Missouri to deliver speeches
in that state, Secretary of the Interior
Francis had written a letter, in which
he regrets his inability to do SO. The
letter in part follows:
This is time, however, when no
man can be silent. The perpetuity of
the republic is at stake. 1 believe the
sober second thought of the people will
condemn and repudiate those who are
trying to array classes against each
other, and incite the disconnected to
violations of obligations, If not to law
lessness. And L deny that those of
US who raise a voice against such
teachings and protest against the re-
vered name of Democracy being used
for ends so base, have departed from
the faith or have weakened in devo-
ton to the great principles of govern
ment by the people. If the organization
calling itself the regular Democracy
be successful at the coming election,
commercial disaster, financial misery,
social discomfort, national dis,honor
would ensue, and the party responsible
for such conditions would be cursed by
an outraged people for d generation to
come.
"A list of prominent Democrats
throughout the country who decline to
support Mr.. Bryan and his platform
would embrace nearly all the Demo-
cratic leaders of this generation.
Those who have led US IN past con-
tests and who are now enlisted under
the banner are giving Bryan but luke
warm or perfunctory support. We
should not be surprised thereat, as he,
intoxicated with the belief of the divin-
ity of his own mission, or blinded by his
own conceit, pays no credit to their
councils, and puts no value on their
wisdom or experience.
His convictions are Populistic. He
has been preaching the tenets of that
party for months or years past. He
voted the Populist ticket at the last
presidential election He is the nomi-
nee OF that party for president, ard its
leaders aver that he would have been
their standard bearer whether the Chi
cago convention would have named him
or not. He announced before that con-
vention was held that he would not
support it's nominee if a free coinage
plank, at the ratio of Is to l, were not
adopted, and has stated since the con-
vention that he would have bolted the
nomination if the platform had not
so declared.
Mr. Bryan and his friends had
agreed upon a rule-and-ruin policy be-
fore the convention was held. The
bolt of the silver Republicans of the
ST. Louis convention was an epoch in
their plans, which, in my judgment
contemplated the nomination of Sena-
tor H NJ. Teller of Colorado, lifelong.
uncompromising Republican, by the
Chicago convention.
1T is not a Democratic electoral
ticket we are asked to vote for in
Missouri; it is a fusion ticket composed
of Populists and Bryan Democrats
Mr.. Francis repudiates the Chicago
platform in bitter words and praises
President Cleveland. He concludes:
Il shall surely be at home to cast
my vote for Palmer and Buckner, and
regret that l cannot leave here in time
to make several speeches in Missouri"