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The morning times., 1896-06-15

Mount Vernon Park Tonight.
W. II. Dawson, champion high wire
performer. Admission free. Fare 26c.
round trip. Cars Fourteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue.
The morning times., 1896-06-15
ALL ON AN OUTING.

This is in brief the evolution OF about
twenty thousand OF the family parties that
disported themselves everywhere within
range of the motive powers of this great
big city of wheels.
You pay your money and you take oneout
of a dozen or more chances or rather as
surances for a Sunday outing. not counting
the thousand new places that have been
opened up by the Christopher Columbus b.
The morning times., 1896-06-15

1t never fails, that me-honored and
see blue cloud big enough to make a
Dutchman shirt, there will be clear
weather, no matter what the condition, size,
Tor attitude of the clouds.
Saturday night was as murky and un-
promising an affair for Sunday expeditions
as ever came down the celestial chute;
and so was yesterday morning, until about
10 O'Clock, when there was a rift in the
east big enough to take peep into the
Hollander's clothes press, and there, sure
enough, was his blue shirt hanging up
high and dry. Morning prayers and ex-
cursion tickets did all the rest.
And besides all this, there is no place
like Washington, and there are no places
like the pleasure parks that are near Wash
ington; and there are no people like Wash
ingtonians in their Sunday toggery in
reasonably fair weather, such as was
that of yesterday. There are, in fact, SO
many of these beauty spots in the environ
ment that there are old men and maids
who have never seen them all, and they
have been in the sight seeing business every
Sunday since there was palace steamer
on the Potomac, or a cable or trolley into
the interior, or family horse in the stable.
1t is the first thing that every well-bred
Washington baby learns, that he's got
to be taken out into the woods on Sunday,
the sooner on Sunday the better for him
and the rest of the family.
At about three years of age he is blase
with themilk of Mount Pleasant co ws served
at irregular intervals from a green bottle
with a white India berstopperthataIways
stops when he is most interested In the
milking; he is sick with the ennui OF being
entertained by the cookin these days when
the nurse goes out Sundays on her bike;
the local dog, wooden or otherwise, has no
constant charm for him; he has learned to
love the exasperating rasping of the
cable or the trolley, the churning of the
wheels of the Manchester, Sylvester, River
Queen or Jane MOsely; he knows that the
world is wider than his 6x10 grass plot, or
the corridorin his fiat; and in fine he always
looks as il he was just thinking to hiisself
that it would be, as people sometimes say
aloud, a ID shame to do nothing but
just stay home all Sunday and drink diluted
milk.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30
a STORY OF wEYLERs ATRoc1rY.

A story comes from Boston that
Lieutenant Award, of Maceo's army,
has arrived there from Cuba and says
that month ago General Weyler dis
covered a Cuban newspaper in the
pocket of an American named Charles
Churchill, of Pennsylvania; that by
General Weyler's command Churchill
was wrapped in am American flag and
burned to death. Lieutenant Award
does not claim to have witnessed the
burning, but says four American sea
captains were witnesses of this. Their
names are given.
The story is too absurd for even the
marines to believe, much less the sail
ors. That Weyler iS a strict disci-
his own DEGREES rigidly there is no
doubt. This most likely entails some
cruelty, but that he should take an
American citizen, wrap him I'm an
American fiag and then burn him to
death is going beyond the bounds of
belief. Such an act on the part of the
apfain-general of Cuba would be al
most certain to result in hostllities
between this country and Spain; and
if not in that it would surely cost
Weyler his head. Even a Weyler is
not entirely devoid of all sense of de-
cency and humanity, and if he were
guilty of the act here charged against
him lit would show him to be devoid
Of such sense of decency and humanity.
The sympathies, of the American peo-
pie are with the Cubans, but to expect
them to swallow such stories as this
about Churchill being burned in the
flag of his country is ridiculous; they
will not do it, If such stories have
any effect at all it is to diminish rather
than to increase sympathy for a good
cause. These stories should only be
told where the evidence to support
them is absolutely reliable and easily
mere rumor is too vague,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30
uHE SALT LAKE HERALD SUNDAY AUGUST go 1895.

American capital to invest in them
at profit.
One would think to read some of the
many articles upon the return from
Europe of American securities that
the European holders of them could
send them here, demand what price
they choose and exact it, The price
they get is the price we choose to
give. And all these securities that
have come back have not been paid for
in gold any more than other importa-
tons from Europe. They have been
part of an exchange of products or
commodities, balances alone being set
tied in gold. International trade is
much the same as a clearing house,
and no one has demonstrated this fact
mere clearly than the Times in it's dis
cussions of tariff questions and trade
balances.
The withdrawal of capital from the
country is anything but desirable, but
when it is withdrawn every effort pos
sible should be made to replace it.
In the present instance that can best
be done by the restoration of the free
coinage of silver
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30
MR.. cocr1RAN's ASSUMPTIONS.

A correspondent writes to the New
York World as follows:
If a lawyer should go before the
court of appeals and begin the argu-
ment of his case by assuming the truth
of the facts controverted by his adver-
sary the court would order him to sit
down and read him q scathing lecture
on the first principles of justice and
honesty. Mr.. Cochran is a lawyer. When
he went before the court of appeals
in Madison Square Garden he assumed
at the beginning of his argument, and
as its foundation, a statement of facts
absolutely denied by Mr.. Bryan. Mr..
Bryan asserts that free coinage will
give us a silver dollar that will be equal
intrinsically to the gold dollar. Mr..
Cochran did not attempt to show that
this was not true. He assumed that it
was not true, without offering proof,
and on that assumption based his whole
argument. The only question in contro-
versy is whether free coinage will or
will not give us a 50-cent dollar.
This correspondent has summed up
the case exactly He charges Mr.. Cock
ran with assuming the facts which are
in dispute, and the charge is true. The
same charge can be made against ev-
ely SpcdhS1 anu paper lhdl AoNOlo lllS
gold standard. 1t was what Major Nc
Kinley did in his letter of acceptance;
it was what General Harrison did in
his Carnegie Music Hall speech; it is
the thing which the World itself does.
Of course Mr.. Cochran did not at
tempt to show that free coinage of sill
yer would reduce the value of the silver
dollar to fifty cents; he had no data
upon which to base such an argument.
Moreover, he was under no necessity
to do it, for the audience he addressed
came not to hear argument and to be
but to hear that which they
believed praised. He made no assump-
ton which they did not accept as prima
facie true. 1t is very doubtful if they
would have listened to a logical discus
sion of the currency question by him,
could he have given them one.
This correspondent sees the question
as it is, and so do the great mass Of the
American people. When the gold men
tell them that under free coinage the
silver dollar will only be worth fifty
cents they want the evidence to
sustain the allegation The silver
men, when they say that free coinage
will make the coinage price of silver
and its commercial price the same, can
point to the historical fact that it was
the same under free coinage. This the
gold men cannot do.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30
THE GOLD RESERVE AS A FOOT.
BALL.

Those bankers and others who asso-
ciated themselves together under the
name of the bond syndicate have dem
onstrated their ability to do what they
will with the gold reserve Of the treas
ury. They drained the treasury of its
gold TO such an extent that they forced
the administration to put forth bond
issues upon practically such terms as
they chose to dictate; and the terms, as
was but natural, were all advantageous
to them They succeeded in forcing the
last loan, but were unable to dictate
the terms OF its issuance; this through
the outcry of the American press
against their further domination Of the
treasury-an outcry which the admins
tratfon itself could not ignore, so loud
had it become. Still they reaped a great
benefit from it.
Now these same gentlemen are i'm
porting gold from Europe by the mil
lions. Moreover but short time ago
they voluntarily, apparently so at least,
covered many millions of gold into the
treasury when the reserve got below
& hundred millions. Why they are i'm
porting gold at the present time is not
hard to see. To the citizen who knows
not of the workings of these bond syn
dicates and combinations of capital, it
looks as though they were fearful if
they continued their raids upon the
treasury that an outraged public opin-
ion would compel the treasury authori-
70 io57
the law gives them to pay out either
gold or silver as coin, and that in the
exercise Of it silver would be paid out.
That policy, which is the proper one,
once inaugurated, would have made it
forever impossible for them to again
get the treasury within their control.
The great lack Of confidence in our
system of which the gold men
talk so glibly and so volubly, and which
they lay to the agitation for free silver,
was brought about by the operations
of the gold or bond syndicate which
made Of the treasury reserve a, football
that they kicked about for their own
amusement and profit. The control of
the treasury was surrendered to them
through Mr. Cleveland's blind and big
1ted devotion to the single gold stand
ard. Having brought about this lack
IF confidence, and seeing how disas- !
Lrous has been its consequence, they /
are trying to restore it by importing
gold and keeping UP that gold reserve
which they raided and reduced. Their
action now is no more patriotic than it
vas then.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30

i consequences. because the less a man
mas or the less he earns, the more neces-
( sary 1t is to him that the value of that
little should be maintained and made
sure, and that the few dollars in his
pocket should be as good dollars as
there are. AS we'll might the steerage
passengers in a vessel in midocean,
weary Of their privations, be melted by
some mischief-maker TO scuttle the ship
IN order to drown the inmates of the
more luxurious cabins, unconscious that
tney themselves must be equally the
victims of the common calamity.
1t is the gold advocates. not the sill
yer advocates. who are talking about
arraying class against class.
He declares he will vote for Mckinley.
I shall therefore vote for Mckinley"
says Mr.. Phelps. 81 am not a Repub-
ilcan and l never shall be. 1 do not
believe in protection and 1 shall never
be converted to it. But in the throes
OF deadly malady L cannot afford to
reject the only physician who is in a
situation to help me, because his politi-
cal opinions are different from mine, or
even because l think there are better
physicians than he, if they could only
be had in time. I shall go further, and
shall vote at the September election
for the Republican candidate for gov
ernor''
Having decided to vote for Mckinley
and against the candidates of what was
his party, he does the logical and con-
sistent thing in determining to vote the
Republican state ticket
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30
BoDrERs rRosl THE noLrERs.

Hon. Edward j. Phelps, minister TO
England under Mr.. Clevelands first
administration, and Hon. Abram Fl.
Hewitt, eX-mayor of New York. both
heretofore Democrats of national
prominence, have announced their in
tention to vote for Mckinley. This
will put somewhat of a damper upon
the ardor of the gentlemen who are
engineering the Indianapolis conven-
ton, because it leads through another
road to the object they themselves
seek-the defeat of Mr.. Bryan. The
National Democrats may declare
that they wish to preserve true Dem
ocradc principles and that therefore
they have decided upon a convention
at which these principles shall be
declared, and that they will place
a candidate in the field to cham
p1on their cause, but their primary
object is to defeat Mr. Bryan.
Their plan for comprising the defeat
of Mr.. Bryan may be termed negative.
while the course decided upon hy
Phelps and Hewitt is positive. HAVING
definite object they go to work to
accomplish it by joining those forces
that are directly striving for the same
object They show that they have the
courage of their convictions at least
While they do not endorse the Chi
cago platform and candidates by their
action, they recognize them as the
regular Democratic platform and car
didates.
We are inclined to think that they
have led where many WAC think as
they do, but who have been more or
less undecided as to their course of ac-
ton, will follow. They have boIted the
hnltorc
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30
HON. E. j. PHELPS LETTER.

Ex-Mln1ster to England Hon. Edward
j. Phelps, has addressed a letter to a
friend giving his reasons why he cannot
support the Chicago platform and can
didates, and why he will support Nc
Kinley The letter is bound to be more
or less quoted during the campaign.
especially by the advocates of the single
gold standard and monopolies
MI Phelps starts out with the rather
extraordinary statement that he re-
CARDS the pending presidential election
as presenting the most dangerous crisis
that this country has ever encountered.
1T does not in my judgment" he says.
involve any political controversy nor
any question of the supremacy of party.
for such considerations are lost sight of
IN the far greater gravity of the situa-
tlon. The real issue is one upon which
all patriotic men and all who are inter
ested in the prosperity and welfare of
the country should find themselves hpon
one side and opposed to a common en-
envy. The attack that we have to re-
sist is not upon the policy, but upon the
life Of the nation. For they would take
its life who destroy the means by which
it lives-the business of many thou
sands and the industry of millions"
If the life of the nation is involved
1t has been placed in danger by the es-
adjustment of the gold standard and
the insistence upon its maintenance by
those who established it.
Like all WHO take the same view of
the matter that he does, he assumes
that the advocacy of free silver is an
attempt to array class against class.
Upon this subject he says:
There is, therefore, in my Judgment.
no man more criminal or who is a worse
public enemy than he who engages in or
countenances that infamous and de-
structive attempt And he is tenfoid
criminal who seeks success in it by
playing upon the prejudices and the
passions of the less intelligent and
stimulating warfare of classes. that
most desolating conflict that comes upon
any nation. Well knowing, for he has
all the experience of the world to teach
him, that he is not comprising the de-
struction of one class, but of both.
since those whom he dupes into serving
his purpose must inevitably be the
earliest and the worst sufferers by its
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30
JOHN EyEAETF MILLAIs.

Now let no passing-bell be tolled,
Wall now no dirge of gloom,
Nor around purple pail unfold
The trappings of the tomb!
Dead? No; the Artist doth not die;
Enduring as the air, the sky,
He lets the mortal years roll by,
Indifferent to their doom.
With the abiding He abideS,
Eternally the same;
From shore to shore Times sounding tides
Roll and repeat His name
Death, the kind pilot, from His home
But speeds Him unto widening foam,
Then leaves Him, sunk from sigh1, to
The ocean of his fame.
Nor thus himself alone He lives,
But, by the magic known
To His so potent art" He gives
Life lasting as His own.
See, on the canvas, foiling Fate,
With kindling gaze and flashing gait,
Dead Statesmen still defend the State.
And vindicate the Throne.
Stayed by His hand, the loved, the lost,
Still keep their wonted place;
And, fondly fooled, our hearts accost
The vanished form and face.
Beauty, most frail of earthly shows,
That fades as feetly as it blows,
BY Him arrested, CLEANS and CLOVIS
With never-waning grace.
W
His, too, the wizard power to bring,
When city-pent we be,
Slowmellowing birchen tree.
Look! twixt gray powders fringed with
fern
The tawny torrents chafe and churn,
And, lined with light, the amber burn
Goes bounding to the sea.
VI.
Toll then for Him no funeral knell,
Nor Sorrows farewell anthem swell,
Nor solemn symbols wave.
Your very brightest banners bring,
Your g'ayest flowers! Sing! Voices, sing!
And let Fame's lofty joybells ring
Their greeting at His grave!
SThe Tempest, Act V, Scene 1.
Alfred Austin
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30
PenciIIings.

DID you ever see a monkey wrench
You should see a monkey in a cocoanut
tree If you want to see one 10 the best
advantage
Sometimes a man has got to die to get
appreciated
Instead of going away for a vacation
TINS summer, some young men are going
70 continue making payments on their
wheels.
Even the man who lets his wife tie his
neckue for him just before he leaves
nome stops sometimes and ties it again
when he gets around the corner, out of
sight.
cry, but women generally don't seem to
md 1T so. unless they have good teeth
Some men would get along faster in
the highway of life if they didn't keep
stopping every little while to study
guide-boards.
II, instead OF trying to- make money,
business men generally would try to earn
it.
The difference between a four-dollar-a-
week place in the country and a thirty
dollar-a-week place is that in one you
are boarder and in the other you are
a guest.
Many a young man, after he has paid
his bill at a fashionable seashore resort,
concludes suddenly not to go to the
mountains for a fortnight, as he had in
tended, but goes out instead on the rocks
and murmurs, in the language of Jenny
son, slightly modified:
Broke, broke, broke,
On the cold gray rocks, o scar
The ardor with which politicians love
the workingman just now Will be
equalled only by the enthusiasm with
soon as he has understandable Jour
nal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30

The several county committees are re-
purpose of electing delegates to the state
convention and to judicial and senatorial
conventions and to nominate candidates
for the legislature and county offices at
least ten days before the time fixed for the
state convention.
AS soon as the same are chosen. the
chairman of each county committee shall
forward to the secretary of the state
committee certified lists of all delegates
to the state convention, and the names
and postoffice addresses of all candidates
nominated
All voters, independent of past party
affiliations, are invited % participate in the
Democratic primaries ana c. Inventions pro-
vided they intend voting for the Demo
cratic candidates. By order of the Demo-
cratic state committee.
e. A. MCDANIEL, o. w. POWERS,
Secretary. Chairman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30

The gold standard orators, from
Major Mckinley. General Harrison and
Bourke Cochran down, tell the people
that it is the threat" of free silver
that is retarding the return of pros
perity and at the same time declaring
that the American people syill never
consent to free silver. If the American
people viii never consent to free silver
then some other cause than the
threat Of free silver will have to be
found to account for the great stagna-
ton in business. The gold orators
have got themselves into a very pretty
dilemma
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30

Says the Indianapolis Sentinel:
"Sterling Elliott. president of the
League of American Wheelmen and
publisher OF the L. A w. Bulletin. is
getting a well-deserved skinning for
attempting to turn the league into a.
political organization, for the support
Of the moneyed interests Of the coun-
try. Utah division has promptly de-
nounced his action, and replied to his
statements in an article which appears
elsewhere in our columns, and local
members in this city are uniting in the
revolt. Whatever a man may think
about the money question, there can
be no possible excuse for dragging it
into such organizations as this, which
are ncn-political in character. Elliott
is as great an ass as Bishop Newman"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30

Der of The United Press, and re-
cefves the complete leased wire
Overland and Pacific Coast news re-
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es, embracing accurate intelligence
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hour of going to press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.

The Democratic state convention for
the purpose of nominating three electors
who WILL if elected. cast their votes in
the electoral college for William j. Bryan
for president, and Arthur Sewan for vice
president; a candidate for representative
in congress; and to transact such other
business as may properly come before it,
will be held at the city of Provo at IL
o'clock a. m. on Thursday, the oath day of
September 1885,
The basis of representation in said con-
vention shall be one delegate for every
forty votes cast for Hon. John 7. Game
for governor, at the November election of
1885, apportioned among the several coun-
ties as follows:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30
BRIGHToN,s HOTEL.

The most beautiful summer resort in
the Wasatch range; only thirty miles
from the city. Daily stage leaves the
Cullen at s a. m. Hotel accommodates
100 people. First-class table and SER
vice. Rates. 50 per day; $12 per week.
Lake Mary and Twin Lakes close by.
Park City seven miles distant For all
information address Brighton Bros,
Box 1920, City p. o.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30
TALES OF THE DAY.
A Grudge.

"Dere seems ter be a good deal of talk
about de needs er de farmer" said Plod-
ding Pete. Seems ter me like de farm
ers gittin er terrible lot er 'tention desc
Yes" replied Meandering Mike, "an'
Wot ever de farmer wants, I'm agin.''
''Wot fur? Amt We got no spirit at all?
L don't believe in harborin' no resent
ment. but [ never kin fergft dat de farm
er IS de man dat goes roun' de country
roads lookin fur harvest hands 5'~Wash-
ington Star.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30

An exchange says that Bryan is do
ing grand work for Mckinley. 1t may
be, but still McKinley's managers
would be glad to give him lay off
until after election and let his salary
continue all the time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

The shipment of 500 tons of Alabama
IRON to Liverpool and 800 to Genoa is ac-
coinpan1ed by the statement that it
America. 1t is clear, at any rate, that
we can make iron and ship it across
several thousand miles of water and sell
1t in successful competition with the
cheapest of European cheap labor
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30

General Henderson says that if the
election were now he should feel com
PEELED TO class Nebraska as a rather
doubtful state. That feeling will grow
less and less as the state becomes
more and more solid for Bryan.