The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-27
WHAT is THE ISSUE.

The New York World says that 1.-THE
Republican party has thrown down
the gauntlet in its tariff plank The
4 Democracy should eagerly take it up,
| putting aside the vain and foolish sill
Yer question, and making its fight
against trusts, monopolies and all
forms of injustice to the people. These
are the real and vital questions. On
them the Democracys position is eter-
nally right and that of the Republic
cans eternally wrong
That is the most remarkable state
ment regarding the issue this year we
have yet seen in any paper. The
World has championed the gold cause
harder almost than any other paper
in the country. Its great influence has
all been for gold and against silver.
The Republican party has thrown
down one gauntlet in its tariff plank.
1t has also thrown down several others,
the most important of all being its
declaration in favor of maintaining the
gold standard and against free silver.
There was bolt in the convention at
st. Louis. Was it over protection?
No; it was over this very question of
free silver. For two months before
the Republican convention met the
World was predicting the nomination
Of Governor Mckinley. There was an
almost universal demand that he de-
fine his position, upon what? Upon
the question of protection? No; but
upon the financial question, whether
he favored the gold standard or free
silver.
If the silver question is so vain and
foolish. why is it that the whole ma
ton is wrought up over it? And why
did the Republican party deem it nee
essary to make a declaration upon it?
If this silver question is so vain and
foolish, why did Mr.. Cleveland send
Secretary Carlisle down into Ken
lucky to fight for sound money!"
Secretary Hoke Smith into Georgia for
the same purpose? Why did Mr. Cleve-
land consent to give his views upon i.
to the New York Herald? And why
did eX-Secretary of the Navy Whit
ney put forth his letter upon the same
question?
The fact is that the World would be
glad TO have protection made the is
sue, for with its clear insight into poll
teal affairs it cannot but see that sill
yer will be triumphant at Chicago,
and it wishes 10 do all it can to pre-
vent that triumph.
In another article Gin another issue)
than the one from which we have
quoted. it says that the free coinage
of silver is not Democratic doctrine;
that some Republican and Democratic
states favor it; that some Republican
and some Democratic states oppose it.
A very spec;ous argument, indeed.
And have not many Democrats favor
ed protection? For example, such men
as the late Samuel j. Randall? And
did not Senator Arthur Pue German
hold up the Wilson bill in the senate
until he could bedeck it with lot of
protection toggery? There were hun
dreds of thousands of Democrats who
thought that President Cleveland did
a suicidal thing to issue his famous
tariff measure of 1887. If tariff re-
form could be forced as an issue, and
it was, why cannot free silver be forced
as an issue?
The fact of the matter is that the
World has undertaken the impossible
task of making black appear white
when it undertakes to make tariff and
not the financial question the issue
this year.