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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17
M'KINLEY,s GREAT PERIL.

Major Mckinley is not nominated yet.
and his silence ON the financial issue
is putting his chances OF nomination in
great peril. The press of his party is
demanding that he declare his views in
clear and no uncertain terms. He must
do this CIR be prepared for an opposition
that viii be powerful at the start and
gain strength as it goes along.
It is fast being recognized that the
issue of the hour is the currency ques-
ticn. The New York Commercial Ad-
veptiser, always abreast of the times on
what are the issues of the day. and
which it ably discusses, declares when
newspapers proclaim that the currency
is not an issue and advise the Republic
can convention to evade it by strad-
ding platform, they insult the intelli-
gence of the American people. The cur
rency is not only an issue; it is the first
issue in silver states and in gold states;
in the east and in the west. 1t is dis
cussed with intense earnestness wher-
ever two or three men are gathered to-
gether. 1t is the leading editorial topic
the United States
1t calls on Mckinley to declare him
self upon this one great issue, and
wants to know if anything is to be
gained by evasion, and asks who can be
footed by avoiding the only issue now
before the people? Then it goes on to
say:
Mckinley should speak now. Nothing
is to be gained by delay. If he is for
the gold standard let him so declare
himself We warn him and his friends
that policy of evasion and silence may
cost them dearly at St Louis. The
Ohio man is in great peril. And if his
friends should force his nomination on
a platform such as was framed by the
Ohio Republicans it would give the
Democrats more than fighting chance.
No such opportunity should be given.
The issue is not the man, but the prin-
ciple, and that principle is an honest
dollar against dishonest dollar. There
must be no trafficking with the free
coinage of silver men and no nonsense
about an international agreement
His silence is fast losing him the con-
fdence of the gold men and silver men
alike. They want bold, manly state
ment, for this is no year for strad-
dlers and trimmers.
The Philadelphia Ledger, as sound
Republican paper as there is in all the
country, says:
He is jeopardizing not only his own
prospect of success by his cynical and
contemptuous silence ON the financial
question; he is putting in peril the 9TH
lot ryr.t Of f1on
can party by the likely alienation of
the vast multitude of voters in the
eastern states. who demand that the in
tegrity of the money of the nation shall
be maintained upon the only safe basis,
viz: Gold.
There is no doubt that Mckinley is
imperiEhng his candidacy. He must
speak out before the platform is made
Thus far his boom has been managed
with admirable skill, but his managers
would make master stroke if they
would now have him put forth an I'M
equivocal declaration on the money
question and that declaration should
be for gold, if he wishes to make sure of
the unwavering support of nine-tenths
of his party. If he lacks the moral
courage to do this policy at least would
dictate that he must do it, and that
without delay.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17
JOHNsoN's LIVES.

The announcement is made that there
is to be new edition of Johnson's
Lives of the Poets'' 1t is to be an
exact reprint of the edition of
1888, following spelling, punctuation
and all; the only departure will be in
making the edition six volumes in place
of four. 1t Will also contain the adj
vertisement to the edition of 1883.
A few years ago Matthew Arnold edi-
ted the leading Lives and at present
that is about the only available edi-
ton, unless one of the old ones can be
picked up The Lives" can also be
had in Tauchnitz's edition of English
authors, but that is a German edition.
the sale of which is not authorized in
England while it is not kept on sale in
America.
The Lives" are not such biographies
as the moderns demand, but they will
always be a classic and afford much in
formation and delight to those who
read them. They were written under
great pressure, but they are the work
Of the great dictator of English liter
allure in the eighteenth century. The
great doctor himself was fully con-
scious of the shortcomings of the book
and acknowledged it as frankly as he
did his ignorance of the difference be-
tween the hook and the pastern Joint
In the advertisement to the edition
of 1888 he says: My purpose was only
to have allotted to every poet an ad-
vertisement, like those which we find
in the French miscellanies, containing
a few dates and a general character;
but 1 have been lead beyond my inten-
ton, l hope. by the honest desire of
giving useful pleasure. In this minute
kind of history the succession of facts
is not easily discovered; and I am not
without suspicion that some of Dryden's
works are placed wrong. 9
AS this undertaking was occasional and
unforeseen, must be supposed to have
engaged in it with less provision of ma
terials than might have been accumu-
lated by longer generalization"
There is no great promise there to
remain unfulfilled What was given
was far better than what was prom
ised. There is no fine-spun theory of
criticism in Johnson. He never doubt
ed his opinion on any matter, and they
were usually pretty good opinions, too.
In all he said he spoke as one having
authority.
The total number of lives is fifty-two.
The longest of the series is that Of Alex
ander Pope. being 241 pages in the edi-
ton of 1870; the shortest one is that of
Richard Duke, being two and a half
pages.
Johnson's insight into character was
not what would today be called deep,
nor was his criticism of the learned,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17
ADVANTAGES OF STATEHOOD.

When the Democrats of Utah met in
reoonvened convention last fall some
delegates thought the party should pull
down its ticket and oppose the adop-
tion of the constitution and the admis-
sion of the territory as a state. That
view did not prove popular and the
fight for the ticket was made, while the
constitution had no more loyal support
ers than the Democrats
It was forseen that there would be
conflicts between the church and the
state, and some thought that a con-
tinuation of the territorial system was
the safer way. Hon. J. L. Rawlins
voiced the sentiments of the conven-
ton when he said that if these con-
f1icts came the people would be in a
much better condition to grapple with
and settle them with statehood than
without it. They would know better
than the authorities at Washington,
where the trouble lay and what were
the best means of meeting it. That has
proved to be the case.
For six weeks past the people have
of a conflict between church and state,
the climax coming with the revelations
made at a high council meeting in Lo-
gan. Had Utah been a territory and
not state, the excitement would have
greatly increased, and what was merely
local would, to judge by past expert
ence. have become national. Lobbies
of Mormons and anti-Mormons would
have gone to Washington, the one to
alfay excitement and prevent legisla-
ton; the other 10 create excitement
and obtain legislation. Then would
have ensued much bitter strife and i'll
feeling. But happily Utah is a state.
After a thorough expose of the Logan
meeting and a full and free discussion
of the affair by the press, with no at
tempt no minimize or eXaggerate all
that such meetings meant if persisted
in, the atmosphere cleared very rap
idly and very materially. The people,
at first hesftating and averse to criti-
cising their church leaders and above
all loath to believe that they had
sought to dominate political affairs
with church influence, realized that
these leaders had gone much too far,
further than they could follow them
with safety to the church or the state.
For the first time they fully realized
that the destiny of the state and the
welfare of themselves and their pos
terity were in their own hands and
that they must act wisely. They have
seen danger that has temporarily
been averted but that is constant and
ever present so long as the right TO
dictate in temporal as well as spiritual
affairs is claimed by members of the
first presidency of the Mormon church.
Realizing their responsibility and see
ing how easily and Unexpectedly per-
festly calm sea may be thrown into
tempestuous pillows, they will be very
careful that no one in future starts
the tempest that shall raise the bill
lows.
The blessings and advantages of
statehood are many, but in none are
they greater than that in which it
makes the people responsible and gives
them the power to adjust all their diff
ferences and solve in their own way,
all the problems that arise to vex
.1,a,,o
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17
WHEN DEMOCRATS SHOULD BOLT.

| 1t becomes more and more evident
every day that it is the intention of the
administration to control the Chicago
convention in the interest of sound
money at any and all hazards. When
Judge Powers returned from Washing
ton and the east a few days ago, he
told of the scheme to admit enough
contesting goldbug delegations to the
convention to control it. On what friv-
olous pretexts these contesting delega-
tons are to be sent was shown by the
case of Colorado, the chairman of the
Democratic state committee taking ex-
ception to what Hon. Charles Thomas
had said about boiling in case a gold
platform was adopted and a gold bug
candidate named to run upon it.
All that Judge Powers said is more
than confirmed by what Walter Well
man writes from Washington to his
paper, the Chicago Times-H Herald. He
says it is apparent that the admins
tration hosts are preparing to play
desperate politics at Chicago 1t is
their intention to control the conven-
ton by hook or crook. He says it is
inside gossip at Washington that the
Democratic national committee is ready
TO do Mr.. Cleveland's bidding, and that
1t is its intention to put enough
sound money" delegates on the tenn
porary roll to give that side ma
jority, no matter how many silver dele
gates present themselves for admission.
All this means that there will be no
scruple about the means of accomplish
ing their end, for the whole proceed
ing will be on the theory that the end
Justifies the means. In plain English"
says Mr.. Wellman, 1.-The president and
his advisers intend to take possession
of the convention by fair means or
foul, and if there is to be any boiling
the other fellows will have to do it,
All this is but confrmatory of what
Judge Powers said. The whole thing
is most Infamous in its inception; that
it can be carried out is very doubtful.
The majority of the Democratic ma
tional committee is known to be for
golo, ana their power in the prelimin-
airy organization is immense.
If there is bona fide majority in the
Chicago convention for silver and
through trickery. knavery and sharp
politics that majority is deprived of its
rights, then the duty Of the silver del
egates is to bolt that convention, for
it will have ceased to be a truly Demo-
cratic convention. There is no other al
tentative.
When the Utah Democracy meets in
state convention notice should be taken
of what may happen at Chicago, and
the delegation instructed to bolt the
in the event that the con-
tingency above discussed happens. 1t
is a serious matter. and deserves the
consideration of the Demo- |
Gratis in this and every other state that
is for silver and honest Democracy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17
THE Two-rHrRDs RULE.

Because there will be a memorable
struggle between those Democrats who
favor the gold standard and those
Democrats who favor declaration in
favor Of free silver for the control of
the Chicago convention, the two-thirds
rule becomes of much Importance. It
is not impossible that the Democratic
national convention may abrogate II
thus forsaking practice in the nomi
nation OF presidential candidates that
certainly has the sanction of long MS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17
SONG OF THE CYCLE.

This is the toy, beyond Aladdin's dream
ing,
The magic wheel upon whose hub is
wound
All roads, although they reach the
world around
Ger western plains or Orient's deserts
cleaning.
This is the skein which each day un-
ravelS
Such new delights, such witching flights,
such joys
OF bounding blood, of glad escape from
Such ventures, beggaring old Crusos
travels.
1t is as if some mighty necromancer.
AT kings command, to please his Iadv,s
whim,
Instilled such virtue in rubber rim
And brought it forth as his triumphant
answer.
For wheresoeer it shining spokes are
fleeing.
Fair benefits spring upward from it's
And los eyes sog grow bright. and cheeks all
Responsive to the hearts ecstatic beating
Thus Youth and Age, alike in healthful
feeling, u
And Man and Maid who find their paths
are one,
Crown this rare product of our country's
And sing the health. the joy, the grace Of
wheeling. u
Youths Companion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17
If It Rains Today

You will be sorry that you have not
bought one of those fine Mackintoshes
of ours. They are dressy and soft as
the finest Melton. They never get hard
or stiff, and they are absolutely odor-
less. Whipcord, new worsted and
Tweed patterns as pretty as you could
wish, and everything about these rain
proof garments is up to the incest
tastes and the prices are just right for
your pocketbook.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

Speak out. Major Mckinley! The
High Priest of Protection cannot ball
ance on a silver plank and a gold
plank at the same time. Both feet must
be planted squarely on gold platform
And then comes victory and prosper
ity!" says the New York Commercial
Advertiser. And yet there are people
who will persist in saying that money
is not the great issue this year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

The Utah Democrats should send to
the Chicago convention the strongest
possible delegation, one pledged to free
silver and no compromise. That con-
vention win try mems souls as never
before Let the delegation be as strong
as that from any state in the Union.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

The present cold spell is retarding
the crops very materially, while its eff
feet upon the sheep herds is said to
be disastrous indeed. Present indica-
tons are that the storm will continue.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

The Philadelphia Record says science
has proven the existence of men on
the planet Mars And old tradition
says there is man in the moon. The
proof in one case is as good as in the
other
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

Canadian cattle exporters at Toronto
object to the shipment of American
cattle TO Europe from Montreal. They
say 1t will seriously injure the export
trade in Canadian cattle to France.
This is merely an cutlery in behalf of
their cwn producer and for the purpose
of corralling the trade for themselves.
There are no better or healthier beef
cattle in the world than in America.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

The twenty days given by weyler
to the insurgents in which to come in
and surrender, have expired. 1t must
be exceedingly provoking to the gen.
eral to think low insurgent the insur-
gents are
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

A month from today and the country
will know the result of the st. Louis
convention. Just what it will be is
not so easy of prediction as it seemed
a fortnight ago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

Spain continues to feel very hostile
over the Competitor incident, but it is
scarcely probable that she will feel
hostile enough to tell Uncle Sam to
come on.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

student OF Brown university stole
an article written by the president of
the university, and signed his own
name to it. That student is develop
ing preacher-like proclivities at a very
early age.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

No man in all the country so en-
joyed and chuckled over that interview
with the Ohio man in the New York
Herald as your uncle Benny Harrison.
He is perfecly free to enjoy all such
things these days
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

Tramp versus Dude.-Tramp-Re
member, boss, I was once just like
you. Algy giving him a dollar)-How
did you get SO different? Tramp-Oh,
I was too proud to live on my father
Truth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17
If It Rains Today

You will need an Umbrella; why not
come and get one now, for if it don't
rain today it may tomorrow, and
then you will need it just the same W.
can suit you, we know. Can sell Won
one from 75c to So
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

Barker-Did you tell him that he
lied? Karker-Not in so many words.
Barker-How then? Karker-I told
him he ought to be sending war news
from Cuba.-Puck.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

Minister Dun says this country has
nothing to fear from japanese compe-
tition. But then ne fails to see the great
necessity there is for bolstering up pro-
lection in this presidential year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17
HUMoR OF THE HOUR.

A Condition Precedent-"Do you ex-
pect to suffer from hay fever this sum-
mer, Mrs. De Long?" mo; not unless
my husbands business improves
Detroit Free Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

BY having his brother-in-law arrest
ed. Rudyard Kipling is getting more
free advertising than as though he
had written new book.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

The Fight Goes On-Smith-They
say the A. P. A. is. against Mckinley.
Robinson-You can't believe all these
reports. heard that the Reed, Alli-
son and Morton managers all claim
to have secured the opposition of the
A. P. A.-PIck.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

The Republican state convention of
Colorado makes silver the paramount
issue, places Henry M. Teller at the
head of its delegation and gives the
instruction of obedience to his direc
ton. That is sufficient. 1t is declar-
alton of aggressive war for free coin
age until it is achieved.-Leadville
Herald-Democrat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

Mckinley does not want to be called
gold-bug or a silver-bug, so he has
compromised on straddle-bug," says
Tom Reed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

THE summer months are coming,
love, the bloom is on the rye" But they
are being preceded by very wet, cold
spring.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

Mckinley has band wagon. The
other candidates have small barrel or
gans and a moakey.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

Warner Miller makes haste to say
that he is not candidate for the vice.
presidential nomination, but that he
still remains true to Morton.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

The Mckinley boomers show visible
signs of uneasiness over the assaults
which are being made upon his finan
cial record. Several of them have ar
rived ir town simultaneously, and
their explanations of the reasons why
he is not able to say exactly where
he stands at present fill many columns
Of the newspapers.-New York Post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

The bill pensioning General Nathan
KimbaIl. of Ogden, passed the house
Friday Good
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

The Pennsylvania railroad has fallen
into line and carries bicycles as bag
gage. Great is the bicycle of the
Americansi
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17
i GIVEN AWAY.

On Monday we will give away free
with every shirt waist sold a hand
some silver waist set, three studs, col
lar button, link cuff buttons and belt
pin. COHN DRY GOODS co.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

Mckinley is perfectly willing to stand
upon a deal platform.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

What would Captain Gray say could
he, who discovered the great Columbia,
see the battleship Oregon?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

Is there to he another bond issue?
What will the amount be, and how
long will the bonds run?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

The response to that drumhead
court-martiai in Cuba came very near
being the drum beat of the nation in
the United States
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

She was very proud of her husbands
tilted friends.
Two of his old college chuns were din
ing there one evening, and one of them
cnanced TO mention Baron Munchausen-
ON. she said, Charley knows Baron
Munchausenr'
And silence fell.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

The land viii soon be overrun with
sweet girl raduates. And how sweet
they are.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

This silence of the majors is be-
coming very oppressive to Mark Han
ma. He feels Il in his bones.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

The backbone of winter does not APP
pear to be broken as yet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

The A P A. is factor in American
palitics-a disturbing factor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

Will congress adjourn by June 2. It
would be a great relief to the coun-
try.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

Worth remembering: The name of a
friend who viii lend you a dollar in
the hour of need.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17
sILvER-s7zs.
LEAD-Brokers. 50.
COPPER--Brokers, 81.

Will Greater New York be better
New York?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

1t was Victor Hugo who called 40
the old age of youth, but here is a let
ter of DR.. Holmes, in his biography,
setting it at between % and 80. The
discrepancy is wide enough to demon
strate that one or the other of these
eminent authorities must be mistaken,
and we are rather inclined to think
that it isn't Hugo.-Boston Post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

Crimsonbeak-I see the horse has not
lost his prestige entirely. Yeast-How
so? Crimsonbeak-I read in the paper
yesterday that they hung man down
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17

President Cleveland's prompt and
emphatic action in preventing the exc
cution of the American citizens who
have been condemned to death in
Cuba, meets the hearty approval of
the country. The president has not
made an arbitrary use of his power,
but has merely held Spain to her
treaty obligation. But for this inter
ference the condemned men would
doubtless have been executed before
now. He has called a halt and Spain
has paused.-Atlanta Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17
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