The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-24
THE srkIaLEY RATIFICATION.

United States Saturday, August y,
the first and only meeting to ratify
their nomination is held in Ogden, not
the first, but the second city in the
state. The chief speaker at the meet
ing was Senator Arthur Brown, who
lives in Salt Lake city, while Senator
Frank Cannon, who lives in Ogden,
was not in attendance. The other speak
ers at the meeting, Judge Bennett and
Ex-Governor A. L. Thomas. are resi-
dents of Salt Lake city. Enthusiasm
for Mckinley is so great in Utah that
it has taken more than two months to
get enough of it together to hold one
ratification meeting. and that not in
the first, but the second city of the
state. Why Ogden was selected no
one can say, unless it was that the
meeting might serve the purpose of
killing two birds with one stone, the
two birds being to ratify NIcKinley's
nomination and the other to make a
protest in Senator Cannon's own home
against his course in boiling the St.
Louis convention. The feathers of the
first bird may have been made to fly
but the second bird was entirely I'M
touched.
Naturally Senator Brown was the
central figure of the meeting. He i'm
mediately plunged into a discussion of
the issue of the campaign. He had not
proceeded far. saying "and I ask you
to remember when some one, during
a pause, shouted Cannon whereupon
the senator paid his compliments to
that gentleman in these words: Yes,
Mr. Cannon and all other men who
are or who pretend to be Republicans"
1t was an insinuation and display of
feeling that was wholly unexpected.
When the senator said that today the
issue of 1860 is to be fought over again,
and the Republican party is again to
be called upon to defend the liberties
of the people. he uttered nothing but
the veriest nonsense. Where is the Fort
Sumter that has been fired upon?
Where are the seeding states and at
assembling to form constitution and
launch a confederacy? II will puzzle
Senator Browns active brain to tell.
Perhaps the prufoundest, most states
manlike most reassuring statement
the senator made was that the Repub-
lican party stands for sound finance.
yet that not all agree as to what sound
finance is. but whatever it means, the
Republicans party does not stand for
reputation, and that party will not al
low the national credit to be impaired.
The Republican party stands for sound
finance but what sound finance is the
senator, as the expounder of Republi-
can financial doctrines, did not know.
The people of Utah know that it does
not mean the free and independent
coinage of silver, and that is enough
for them.
When the senator declared that the
Republican party will give us bimetal-
lism; we don't want cheap money; we
want real bimetallism. bimetallism
that viii make a dollar of silver and a
dollar of gold equal, whether it is a
50-cent or a 200-cent dollar" he left his
audience to infer that the free and indie
pendent coinage of silver by the United
States means a cheap, deprecated dol
lar. He said we must have bimetallism
with other nations. With other nations
Bimetallism with other nations is more
than hope deferred; it is hope dead to
certainty. To ascertain just when and
how we shall get bimetadlism with
other nations, we should read the fable
of THE Farmer and the Lark.
There is only one road to bimetal-
lism, and that is through high pro
tective tariff. If you want constitu-
tional government, you must vote for
Mckinley. The Democratic road to
free silver is the way to reputation
and possibly revolution" declared Sena-
tor Brown. From his previous re-
marks we were led to think that the
only way to bimetallism was through
an international agreement.
The people of Utah should remember
that if they want a constitutional gov
eminent they must vote for McKin-
ley" From this it is to be presumed
that if Mckinley is not elected the con
stitution will become null and void
How do the people of Utah like
the declaration that the Democratic
road to free silver is the way to repu-
diabion and possibly revolution? The
Democratic way to free silver is by the
free and independent coinage of silver
at the ratio of is to / without waiting
for the consent or cooperation of any
other nation. Do the people of Utah,
who have in their state conventions,
Democratic and Republican, declared
for independent free coinage, believe
that free coinage by the United States
is the way to reputation and possibly
revolution? Out upon such arrant non
sense and unpatriotic. un-American
talk. But we are not surprised at such
talk from Senator Brown. He has al
ways placed party before patriotism.
His heart has ever been wrapped up in
high tariff. while his friendliness for
silver has been more a matter of geo.
graphy than of conviction. His speech
at Ogden should make it absolutely i'm
possible for him to be considered for
moment as available as a successor to
himself as United States senator
Aside from Senator Browns speech
there was nothing said worthy of spec
iaI comment. When Ex-Governor Thorn
as said that the tariff is the paramount
issue it was a clear case of the wish
being father to the thought
The ratification meeting at Ogden
shows that. in Utah, Mckinley is quot