The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-01

Mistakes of EX-President Harri-
son-Ogden Silver Paper-PoIfti-
cal PrattIe.
To all appearances, the two conven-
ton plan for harmony among Repub-
licans, which was promulgated by the
| Republican state committee Saturday,
is not destined to have the desired eff
feet but on the contrary, to have pre-
cipitated that which it was desired to
avert, a division of the party. Some
of the lesser lights among the silver
| Republicans were prone to accept the
proposition at first, without going into
the merits of the matter, as being the
best they could get. but the leaders
among the Republican advocates of sill
yer went TO the bottom of the scheme
at once and refused to have anything
to do with the alleged compromise,
which they characterize as a COM
promise for the benefit of the Mckinley
men only. Such Republicans as Sena-
tor Cannon, Congressman Allen, C. S.
| Varlan, and, in fact, many Of the most
prominent silver Republicans, repud-
lated the plan at once, and the few who
at first felt like acquiescing, have
| Joined the leaders in a general cutlery
| against the injustice of a compromise
| plan for harmony SO one-sided that the
silver men are to have no voice in
nominating the electors who shall head
! the Republican ticket nor in the Sc
| lection of the state committee, while
! the Mckinley men have an equal voice
in the selection of a congressional can
didate, with better than fighting
| show of nominating man Of their
| own selection.
such general disapproval among the
silver men that there is now every
prospect that they will reorganize
! provisional committee, call a cOnYen-
| ton to nominate their electors and a
congressman, and have nothing 20 do
with the conventions called by the reg
| ular organization.
The first steps in that direction were
taken yesterday when United States
| Senator Frank ]. Cannon, STATE Sena-
aor E. NJ. Allison, and John I. Murphy
| came down from Ogden to consult with
| the leading silver Republicans here
concerning the wisest course for the sill
yer Republicans to pursue. They con-
ferred with Judge c. c. Goodwin.
| Congressman Allen, c. S. Varian. L.
| 3. Critchlow and a number Of Nehers
end was decided to invite all silver
Republicans in the state to attend a
mass silver Republican meeting at
Ogden on Thursday night at which
the situation will be discussed and
some method If procedure adop ed. The
meeting VIII; be addressed by the above
named gentle men and by other rSd-
| ing Republicans Of Salt Lake and Og-
den, as vel! as by representatives Of
| the oliver wing OF the party from other
PARTS of the ste te. The plan whica
| nav meet7 with most general favor, :s
that of organizing a provisional COM
lnittel, calling a silver Republican con-
vention and PCtltioning for a place on
| the ticket, and it is now thought 4 IS
will be the ultimate issue of the meet
ing
The feeling against the two coAveGl-
ton scheme took general hold Of lie
silvec Republicans here yesterday, and
during the day a call for m2e1ing
as caused to be circulated, bearing
the following heading:
Eve, he undersigned, hereby call
and agree to attend a committee meet
ing of the silver Republicans to be held
at the Knutsford hotel Wednesday
evening, September 2, at O'Clock, TO
consider and discuss the present politi-
cal situation"
By night the call was signed by over
200 silver Republicans, and among the
signatures were those of many of the
men who have been identified with the
party the most prominently in the
! past. 1t is not the purpose of the meet
ing to take any definite steps, but to
enable the silver men to advise with
OH another and be prepared 10 pre-
sent to the meeting at Ogden con-
census of the views of the local silver
men of the party.
Among these there is wide diverg-
ence of feeling as to what should now
be done, but all agree that they will
not acquiesce in any particular to the
state committee proposition. Some
they should take no further part i'm the
chickering's of the party, but that they
should go over and vote the Democratic
| ticket straight. Others advocated ig-
noring the call for the first convention
as regards the explicit statement that
it shall be for the purpose of nominate
ing Mckinley electors, by massing at
the primaries and there putting 1t be-
yond the power of the Mckinley men
to control the convention, then nomi-
| nate Bryan and SeWal1 electors and
elect silver Republicans to the state
| committee, and thus put the Mckinley
men in the attitude of being the petit
TONERS. These claim that such action
would be no more outside the rules Of
| Precedent and no more dishonorable
than for a party of men representing
less than 10 per cent of a party to meet
and dictate terms to the other 80 per
cent. The number advocating such radi-
cal measures is small in com parison
with that which favors the silver men
washing their hands Of the whole ar
rangement and putting a straight sill
yer Republican ticket in the field.
POLITICAL PRATTLE.
The Scandinavian Silver league held
a rally at St. Marks school house last
evening.
The meeting was called to order by
President ]. C. Sandberg, who, in a
short speech, told the audience that the
organization was to be a silver club,
! independent of party affiliations He
wanted to cow the Americans that the
Scandinavians were as loyal as any
other citizens and that they would
unite with all silver forces TO crush
Mckinley.
Secretary Thomas E. Missing then
read the constitution of the society. F.
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