The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-04
SILVER WAS
The SLOGAN
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! 1t Will be seen from the foregoing that
since the birth of the Republican party
IN Utah, every platform has made the
restoration of silver the paramount, vital
! issue of the party, and congressman and
senators have, under that rule, gone from
US with the tacit instruction to further
this vital principle in every honorable
way.
Before the organization here of the
Democratic and Republican party our
/ delegates to congress, by universal de-
sire. were likewise impressed with the
paramount Importance of the silver ques-
ton, and delegations of citizens, time
after time. went to Washington to adj
vance If possible the same cause.
Seven years ago a silver convention
was called in Salt Lake City, and in that
convention. which was composed of citi-
zens of this then territory, Idaho, Mon
tana. oregon and Nevada, resolutions
We're drafted and adopted out of which
the platform of the National Bimetallic
league was formulated
The stand taken by Senator Teller and
his silver colleagues, when they refused
to consider some sectional tariff Juggling,
the purpose behind which was to cause
that Juggling to crystalline into q stat
ute, was fully Endorsed by an overwhsim-
| ing majority of the Republican party Of
Uath.
1t would look as though the party stood
pledged to silver and its full restoration.
But at st. Louis the Republican nation
al convention absolutely repudiated this
principle, and the refusal was accom-
panied by a spirit more hostile than were
even the words of betrayal included in
Republicans left the convention, they
were pursued by the boots and Kisses of
many of those who remained.
Now in Utah, majority of the state
executive committee have called a con-
vention to name Mckinley electors, and
also to name a new executive committee.
Silver men cannot take part in those
proceedings without stultifying them
vy5t
work and words since 1873; without haV-
ing the falsehood advertised all over the
eastern states that Utah indorseS Major
Mckinley and the gold Platform on which
he stands; without having to revise all
the arguments they have made for the
last five years; without putting Utah 1t
self in a false light before the nation,
and hence. recoiiing before a position so
false and unreasonable, they have adopt
ed the resolutions of this great meeting.
There is more to it still. They believe
that this issue is not only vital to the
prosperity of this country, but that it is
a question of civilization itself, so mo-
mentous that the spoils of Office or the
ambitions of individuals are as nothing In
comparison.
But further, they would emphasize the
fact that they are real Republicans, and
do not propose by a faction to be read
out Of the Republican faith and relegated
to the rear
Were a company of Christian priests to
ate the first essential of baptism from the
creed, would the men who drew away
from the company necessarily all at once
become pagans We not only are Republ-
cans, but we feel a most earnest Solici-
tude for the election of a Republican leg
islature and congressman. We pledge
ourselves by earnest work and by all hon
orable means to try to secure such cleo
tons, but we will first require pledge
from candidates that they are firm believ-
ers in the paramount Importance of re-
storing silver.
we should deplore the election of a DEM
ocratic congressman and legislature but
we are determined that the fact shall be
established that we appreciate faithful
services already performed, and are de-
ternined, in the interests of national pros
on in the work until full silver reStora-
ton shall be secured, and in this we
solicit the earnest cooperation Of all the
true men and women of the state of Utah.
Resolved, That there is hereby appoint
ed by this mass meeting of Republicans
provisional committee, as follows: c..
S. Varian, Joseph Hatch, c. W. Clark. A.
B. Patton, E. w. Wade, John Lowry,
Thomas Kearns, Mrs. Sarah A. Boyer,
Miss Rose Garfield, F. R. G. WEIGH, Co
rhine M. Allen, Mark Hopkins, c. P. Ma
son. F. J. Leonard, Lafayette Holbrook,
Charles R. Mcbride of Tooele, whose au-
thority and duty shall be to call mass
convention of Republicans who hold to
the sanctity of past party platforms in
this state: who believe in bimetaliism as
the paramount demand upon legislation;
who believe in protection and reciprocity,
and who believe in the right of the people
rather than the autocracy of political ma
chimes.
Said mass convention to be held at Salt
Lake City at an early date, to be organ
lied as the provisional committee may
direct in accordance with the purposes
of this resolution, and to be authorized to
create a state central committee for the
Independent Republican party Of Utah,
to nominate presidential electors and
other officers If it shall see fit, and to de-
clare party platform
HON. THOMAS KEARNS.
Hon. Thomas Kearns was the next
speaker. He said he had come to help
unite the Republican forces so as to in
sure the election of Bryan, for on his
election depended the very existence of
the laboring masses of humanity
throughout this land The Republican
party had again and again declared
that they were the friends of silver.
and the speaker intended as one Of that
party to remain true TO those profess
sions by voting for and working for the
election of that young redeemer, Will
itm J. Bryan. 1t was a little off color
to be a Bryan Republican, but it was
absolutely cowardly TO be a silver Nc
Kinley man.
There was only one issue before the
people, the free and unlimited coinage
of silver without regard to other ma
TONS The Republicans of Utah had,
in convention assembled, again and
again declared for silver, and the peo-
pie demanded that those pledges be
kept and would permit no gold fringe
on them either.
Stand to your pledges, said the speak
er, and the result will be tine election
of Bryan and the triumph of the white
metal.
BOY ORATOR OF THE WASATCH.
Hillman Brough, the boy orator Of
the Wasatch, added new laurels to his
fame as a speaker in a Characteristic
address. He directed his remarks al
saying that he believed in a monetary
system which would open the manu-
factories of the world to the free coin
age Of American muscle. lie made
some telling points against the greed
of England and of Anglomauiacs. He
also paid his respects to the fat frying
proclivities of Hanna, Harrison, Van
derbilt and others.
when Bishop Newman can preach
from book that forbids the hiding of
talents under a bushel and then advo-
Gates a, monet ary system that makes
men hoard their wealth Il would seem
as though there is something wrong
with his Bible" It was Alexander
the financial system which permits the
use of the silver dollar with the golden.
He made a stirring appeal to the work
ingmen of Utah to join in a financial
and protective system which will pro-
tect the country alike from the yellow