The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-05

presidential election.
There are those in this wing of the
party who have openly and unequlvo-
cally declared that they will support
the Democratic nominee for president,
if he is silver man, and work against
the Republican candidate with all
their might, if he is not an out and
out silverite That this section of the
party is quite powerful was made man
fest by the endorsement which Sen
ator Cannon received for voting in the
senate for silver. before protection, and
the tacit rebuke which was admins
tered to Arthur Brown for voting to
take UP the tariff bill to the exclusion
of silver.
OTHERS THINK PROTECTION IS
PARAMOUNT.
There is another large section of the
party which considers protection the
paramount issue; which believes IN
free silver as of secondary Importance
to tariff. This is also powerful fac
ton, the members of which favor send
ing the delegates to the national con-
vention instructed to do the best they
can for the insertion of a free silver
plank in the platform, but not to do
anything so radical as to bolt the con-
vention if they can't have their way.
These people endorse Senator Brown.
as the woolgrowers did on Friday and
tacitly condemn Senator Cannon
What shall be the nature of the in
structions, if any. which shall be given
the six delegates? is the problem
which confronts the state convention
which meets in this city on Tuesday,
and to get round it without causing.
split in the party will require all the
finesse and adroitness of which the
party leaders are possessed.
SENATOR CANNON WILL BE A
DELEGATE.
That Frank J. Cannon will be one
of the six delegates to st. Louis, is
foregone conclusion, and in order to be
consistent, if he lays any claim to that
virtue, he will have to bolt the
convention in case the silver
plank is not inserted. Who the other
five delegates will be and whether they
will be boilers or stayers, silver men or
protectionists is the question which
is agitating the party.
An effort was made by Herald re-
porter to get expressions of opinion
from prominent leaders on both sides
of the fence, but they appeared TO be
so much at sea that it was impossible
to elicit the expression of any tangible
and definite views from them
COLONEL TRUMBO'S POSITION.
Colonel Trumbo was perhaps the
most voluble and gave his ideas in
substance as follows:
What do you think of the present
political situation?' enquired Herald
reporter.
Il have seen it stated" said Colonel
Trumbo, that the silver Democrats
of the country are making an organ
lied effort to carry the Chicago con-
vention fer silver, and in this L dis
Germ much that western Republicans
might initiate but for some reason
there is an indisposition among the
silver Republicans, which is to be de-
plored, so when you ask me what l
think of the political situation, L am
constrained to declare that if the rank
and file Of my party do not exert
themselves within the next few weeks
in an effort to demonstrate the
strength of the silver sentiment within
the party, we shall suffer the ihumilia-
ton of seeing a paramount protection
platform with a gold addendrrm,
adopted at st. Louis
Are you not a protectionist?''
Yes, to this extent, that sufficient
protection be given to every industry
in the United States which requires
tariff legislation, to prevent ruinouS
competition, or the supplanting of our
workmen. by foreign producers. 1 be-
lieve with Lincoln that, diverted of all
clouding declarations, protection is
nothing more nor less than the giving
of employment to our own people and
the conserving of our wealth, instead of
dfssipating our resources in giving en-
ployment to workingmen in foreign
lands"
IF protection will do all this, then
you are for protection first and silver
afterward. Are you not?"
Il do not realize that there must
necessarily be a conflict between pro-
lection and free coinage The Herald,
as Democratic organ, would term
protection paternalism. Very we'll |
Thus little paternalism in behalf of |
silver-as well as gold-is exactly what /
I want. Candidly, though, 1 will ac-
knowledge there is a conflict, not of |
principles. but of opponents. There is
a class of protectionists in the east |
demanding the cloak of tariff with |
Which to buffet the storms of Europ- !
can competition, who are not governed |
by the true lenets of Republ' HaniSm |
They are greedy, covetouS and Oppres- |
sive, and when satisfied with enact /
ments favorable to their interests, /
sheer at the demands of western pro-
tectionists. They are also overprotec-
and as dangerous as free trad
ers. and far more invidious in that they
take advantage Of and abuse, a grand /
theory of government, to enhance their
well-rounded profits. Tariff laws must
be so regulated as to encourage com |
petition from abroad when trusts and !
combines attempt to impose unreason- /
able and unfair prices upon the con-
sumers. Tariff must be the safety
valve between consumers and manu-
facturers, allowing to the latter a. fair
margin, no more, after paying a fair
salary for fair days work to the
toiling masses
Mckinley, for instance, is an over
protectionist. He is also the embodi-
pnent Of all that is tending to disrupt
The party which, in its first platform.
gave notice to the country that the |
powers of the federal
government should be eXerted to secure
life, liberty and happiness to all men.
He has become the willing representa-
tive of the gold ring of Wall and Lorn-
bard streets; he has allowed his name.
nseparably connected with tariff agi-
-ation, to be used by the shylocks that
protection and silver should be di- 4
vorced. The monometallists fear to
go before the country on the financial
question, but by making tariff the over
covering issue, even to the dismember-
rent of the Republican party, they
nope to wean or coerce ardent bimet-
allists into such a compromising posi-
ion that they must choose between
protection coupled with no silver, or
he alternative of boiling the conven-
ion and the alternating their first po-
.tical love, the Grand Old Party.
I have monopolized the floor said
he colonel, but anticipate that you