The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-15
THE SALT LAKE HERALD WEDNESDAY JULY is, 1885,

what amused at the avidity and glee
with which you have thus far published
the views of the few milk and water
Republicans, who have expressed them
selves as having gone off after strange
gods on the silver craze or fad. [ have
thought it would be only showing a
disposition of fairness toward the old,
tried and true Stalwart Republicans il
you would take a. little pains at least,
to publish the views of some OF the
real, true and tried Republicans. who
still retain their good common sense
and reasoning faculties unimpaired by
the wild and senseless howl of the one
idea people who would have US believe
that they are the only real, true simon
pure patriots of the country-the So
Called SlIveriteS-and l must confess
that am somewhat surprised at the
absurd inconsistency of the Tribune
to Republican ideas and principles,
/. E., when you propose to hold the
Republican party of this state together
and intact by ignoring the national
platform of the party, as adopted at
St Louis, and urging the Republicans
TO cast their votes for Democratic pres
idential electors, your proposition is
not be done. 1 believe, Mr. Editor
as do many other good Republicans,
that you had better take down your
sign and make no more pretensions of
being a Republican newspaper. If you
persist in going on in the tone you have
OF late, under the guiSe Of being a Re
publican, your conduct will not only be
dishonest, but it will be the part of
a mountebank and thimble-rigger, who
is without honor or character of any
kind whatever. Be honest, Mr. Trib-
une; do not pretend one thing while
your actions show you to be some
thing else; do not go on in this double
dealing way, and do not continue TO
draw the wool over the eyes of the
plain and unsophisticated people of this
state in the manner you have been at
tempting to do of late. Take your true
position and stand by it, so that we
who differ with you may treat you at
least with decent respect
Now, these are plain words and you
may not take them kindly, but 1 mean
just what 1 say. l assure you, Mr..
Tribune, that do not only speak for
myself, but for a large number of true
stabwart Republicans, who have not
yet gone mad or crazy over the So
called silver fad" All we ask is fair
and decent treatment by the paper
that we have always given a hsarty
and liberal support, notwithstanding
the fact that we have sometimes diff
fered with you ON minor matters.
have SO much faith in the good sense
and sober judgment of the American
people as to feel assured that they will
settle this wild craze in November next,
in such manner that it may possibly
10 H., i1a1,-
ing how you could so far misjudge the
good common sense of the sane and
conservative people of these United
States. Just SO sure as the sun shall
rise on the morning of election day on
November next, that patriotic, loyal,
true and typical American, William
Mckinley, will be the next president,
and don't you forget it for one mo-
ment. (This is written for publication
and is not personally
1 take the greatest pleasure in an
nouncing to my former Republican
friends, who say they have left the
old, tried and true Republican party,
and also to those who still remain true,
that we will guide the old ship safely
to the harbor of American prosperity,
loaded with glad tidings for the poor,
oppressed and down-trodden of the
land We will dc this in spite of you,
and save you from self-destruction.
A few days ago some person in a
joking mood published an announce
ment in The Herald to the effect that
would run for congress upon the st.
Louis or Mckinley platform. At that
time I had no intention or thought
whatever of running for congress, or
any other office, upon any platform;
but now, since it has been repeatedly
= d Ill
can in this state would dare to run
upon the Mckinley platform for con-
gress, 1 shall now and here state that
1 am a candidate for the nomination
as a straightforward, uncompromising
Republican on the Mckinley and st.
Louis platform Subject, of course, to
the action and will of the regular Re
publican convention of this state that
shall endorse fully the st. Louis plat
form.) If I am nominated and run 1
may be beaten; the race may cost me
bright prospects and many friends, but
shall have the satisfaction of knowing
that the grand old party of true Amer
lean patriotism was not entirely desert
ed in the state of Utah, in this to be
most memorable campaign of 1896.
I have been a faithful and hard work.
ing Republican all my life, and find no
reason now, after forty years of study
of Republican principles. to change my
views or course, and most assuredly
not upon the one-idea craze 4of free
silver" regardless of an international
agreement or other consequences, and
which consequences without such an
agreement would be most heart-rending
and distressing to the poor people of
this country.
Therefore, I must still remain and
stand by true Republican principles as
enunciated in the Republican platform
at st. Louis, and which Mckinley, the
able, grand and magnificent candidate
of the Republican party, so ably rep
REGENTS. Respectfully, etc,
JOHN LU TAYLOR.