The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-08
sILvER's FIRST VICTORY AT CHI
CAGO.


1t stirs ones soul to the very depths
to read of the way in which the silver
men at the Democratic national con-
vention took the temporary chairman
ship from the gold men. The national
committee calculated too much upon
Democratic regard for party tradition
and precedent when it assumed that by
a bold stroke in naming Senator Hill
as the conventions temporary chair
man the silver men would quietly SUB
nit. The committee calculated without
it's host If it met with a very severe
rebuff. and it certainly did, it should
be remembered thai it invited 1t. But
why did Senator Fill, an astute and
, long-tried politician, a man OF the
widest political experience, permit MINI
self to be sacrificed as he was? lie
was informed by the silver men that
. he would be turned down, not because
of any personal objection to him, Cor
there was none, but simply because he
was opposed 10 the free silver policy
of the majority of the convention. He
can scarcely have thought that those
who told him this were merely bluffing.
His course is quite ineXplicable.
But how grand it was when the peo-
PIES representatives turned against the
domination of the money power, tram
pied it under foot and asserted their
sovereign rights. Threats, cajolery,
persuasion, and all the arts of the poll
tician had failed to swerve the silver
men a hairs breadth from their set
purpose. There was a heartiness in
the cheering after the vote announcing
the selection of Senator Daniel as tenn
porary chairman that only comes from
men CT deep conviction. The speech of
the chairman was worthy of the occa-
sion. He pictured in the language of
a poet the misery and distress that
have come upon the land as the result
of the characterization of silver. He
told in graphic terms what the country
owed to the men of the east. If they
have feeling, his words must have been
like iron entering their souls. How
happily he characterized the force bill,
the Mckinley bill and the Sherman bill
as the triple infamy of Republican leg
islation. How his words must have
rung in the ears of the men who came
from New York and New England to
the convention to fight for the gold
standard, and ito preserve the honor of
the country when he said that not
one Democrat from New York or New
England cast vote against the force
bill, but that such gallant western men
as Teller, Wolcett, Jones and Stanford
had done all in their power against
that bill
The first triumph for silver augers
well for it's further triumph. The sill
YER men have given an earnest of their
determination and purpose that the
gold men cannot mistake The minor
ity have their rights as we'll as the
majority, but if they attempt to thwart
the will of the majority they should not
be allowed to do so, but should be ruth
lessly ridden down. A fair parliament
airy fight is proper and what advant-
ages the gold men may gain through it
are legitimately theirs, but obstruction
tactics should not be allowed; and no
two-thirds rule should be permitted to
prevent the nomination OF a free silver
candidate. The proceedings of the con-
vention will be watched with intense
interest from now until the conven-
ton closes.