The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-11

/ A state cannot make the national party
! People in a state cannot adopt a policy
! at var.nce with their national organiza-
I ton and still claim to be Eembers OF
4 such organization. When an army en-
gagged in a contest determines upon line
Of battle. and its commanders have an
f served. a subaltern who disobeys or
formulates another plan, and who per-
sistenly refuses obedience, is treated as
a foe.
/ The Republican party has spoken at st.
Louis. It has announced what its faith
is. and the test of a mans Republican
ism is whether he accepts the promulga-
/ ton: ANY. person supporting the st.
Louis platform is
Welded TO THE GOLD STANDARD.
and those in Utah who vote for such as
( stand upon it are insincere in their dec
! larations for silver.
/ Republican is one who supports Nc
kinley and the gold platform adopted by
the Republicans.
Why should persons who claim to be
i the friends of silver. subordinate it TO
local offices? If persons honestly believe
( the cause of silver is of such supreme
Importance, why should they not join
hands with the Democrats; be with them
in their camps, stand shoulder to shout
/ der with them in the battle, bear the
same arms. tire the same guns and fight
the same aggressive, powerful, deter
mined foe?
How can men fraternize in local, petty
matters, jubilate together in the selec-
/ ton and election of a justice of the peace,
or selectman, and yet regard each
other as enemies upon the. battlefield.
when issues that Involve nations, homes
and liberty are being fought out?
The Democrats saw the approaching
crisis. They needed the words of true
statesmen and the cries of the distressed.
turned away from leaders whom. they
had reVered and followed implicitly
upon many battlefelds.
THERE THE PEOPLE SPOKE;
their mighty voice rolled like the thun-
ders from Olympus mount They pro-
claimed a declaration of financial indie
pendence They drove from the Demo-
cratic party those who had sought to
defile it and prostitute it's powers to serve
the rich and powerful All who l4ved a
lie, who prOfited upon the earnings OF
others, who traded and trafEcked IN hu-
man sorrows, who oppressed the poor
and meek of the earth, who gathered
when they had not sowed, who despoiled
men of their homes, and freemen of their
liberty. all these and more, cried out
against the voice of the people, and joined
hands with the idolators.
My Republican friends, where do you
stand in this controversy?
If you are for silver, you are for Bryan;
| II you are for Bryan, then you cannot
affiliate with Mckinley Republicans.
Bryan stands not only for the national
Democracy but he is the leader of the
state and county and precinct Democracy
If you are truly for Bryan, you are with
him in the state and county and precinct.
Concede this-you are a part of the new
Democracy" purified by the fires through
which it has passed. and should be with
us, bone of our bone and flesh of our
flesh
IT is NOT CLEVELAND DEMOCRACY
we ask you to align yourselves with.
He is against us as surely as Mr.. Nc
Kinley. They stand for the same finan-
cial policy The only words of approval
Of Mr.. Clevelands administration come
from Republicans and the filled cheese"
Democracy which nominated Palmer to
aid in securing the election Of Mckinley.
No man or woman of Utah should hesi-
tate long in selecting the party, with
which to unite. Our party is led by
renegades from the Democratic party who
place wealth and power and the asgran-
disement of the few above country, or
and syndicates and money grabbers.
All who feed and fatten on the abuse of
government are on this side. All who
hold mortgages and bonds, and who live
upon the sweat and toll of labor are
there, whether they live in America or
across the water.
The other party selected leader from
the ranks of the people. Right from the
fight He is supported by the people His
strength lies in the justice of his cause.
Like Antaeus of old, he cannot be van
pushed so long as he stands on mother
greatest epic ever produced by mantle
filling of the soil and producing by honest
labor the sustenance of life.
BRYAN is NOT A DEMAGOGUE-
He demands no utopian thing. He
recognizes that money is the means OF
association; that it diversides employment
and stimulates industrial activity. Civili-
zation is brought about only by the
closer association of man with man, and
that diversification of employments that
makes labor most productive he in
sists that the policy Of contracting the
currency and producing continuous fall
ing prices shall cease. He demands no
experiments. he asks to venture in no
new paths or explore unknown lands.
Silver has always been the friend of the
people. He asks that this friend of hu-
manity from histories earliest dawn be
permitted to come into the homes of the
people to gladden. and cheer their faint
He is no iconoclast-he is a restorer. He
would lop off abuses, but only to restore
that which was taken away, The temple
of our prosperity he would rebuild, the
chief c0rner stones being silver and gold
the money of the constitution. Mckinley
surveys the ruins of national prosperity,
the mighty coil of debt which is strang-
ling the people, and says: Only have
confidence and your prosperity is as
There is no proposition to rebuild our
coil of debt No remedy is offered until
the tine when Europe VIII be more in
terested in our welfare than we are our
selves.
enacted into law. in 1872 providing for
silver and gold The silver dollar be-
came the unit of value. Foreign nations
were not asked to aid US in maintaining
the parity or to establish financial
The speaker then reviewed at length
the various laws of congress relating to
silver. and then showed the conspiracy.
which resulted in the demonetizatiQn Of
conference of 1867 was explained and the
letter of Sherman to the American min
lister urging the gold standard received
attention.
and history of other nations in regard to
the use of silver and gold and argued
at legnth that silver has always been
world. The production of each metal was
shown and the use and fall of each as
measured by the other, and by the conf
modities and products of the soil