The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-26
SCHEME FOR THE ccLD MEN.

The whole country anticipates that
there viii be a big fight ait Chicago
between the gold and silver forces in
the Democratic party. It is probable
that this anticipation viii be realized.
It can be accepted as a fact that the
gold forces will fight for the acceptance
of the New York financial plank, and
that all their endeavors will be TO have
the convention accept it. Mr.. w. c..
Whitney will lead the fight, and no
doubt he will lead it brilliantly. The
plan of campaign will be one of
wheedle and appeals to patriotism.
Walter Wellman, the Washington
correspondent of the Chicago Times
and no one who has followed the
course of events recently can doubt it's
correctness. He declares that officials
of the administration who are in the
council of the president say that w.
c. Whitneys letter means that from
this time forward a great effort is to
be made to secure some concession
from the silver men at Chicago on
which the Democratic party can be
held together, which in turn means
that the presidents policy of forcing a
sts-ai ght-ou1 issue has been abandoned.
Mr.. Cleveland, it is said, has aban-
doned his position with great regret
and only upon pressure being brought
to bear upon him by the more conserv-
ative and far-sighted men of the party.
The first step in the Whitney plan is
to get the silver men in good hunlor, i'll
a plant mood, SO to speak. Then Mr..
Whi1ney's plan is to make the party
believe that in international bimetaI-
/ lisTn it may find a way out of it's diff
culties, a. way to avert the threatened
disruption. If he succeeds in this
(1nosf improbable of events) he hopes
to induce them to give over their ex-
tre-ne programme and to take up inter
national bimetallism as thair great
card. AS an auxiliary to this effort he
proposes to show the silver leaders that
they have not two-thiEyis of the con-
vention, and that while they have a
majority and can therefore abolish the
two-thiIds rule such action would be
regarded as revolutionary and would
offer ali the sound money Democrats
the best excuse in the world for bolt
ing. With the olive branch of peace
and international reconciliation on
silver in one hand and a club in the
shape of a minority of the convention
that is more than third of the dele
gates in the other, Mr.. Whitney has
hopes of being able to accomplish
something.
A very wise plan. very deep laid
scheme; but it will not work The sill
| pottage, in the shape of International
bimetallism, for their birthright This
! wise ptan. this deep scheme is founded
! on the assumption that the silver meT
are mere set CT fools who can ht
amused and deceived with a gewgav
or a bauble. If this doesn't succeed
they are TO be told that they have no
two-thirds of the convention. Ths
answer TO that should be that the7
have a majority, and that if the minor
ity proposes to defy and annul tbs
will of the majority with TIE two
thirds rule, it simply won't be adopted
whether or no it be evolutionary; anr
that if the gold men wish to bolt be
cause it is not adopted, they are a
liberty to do So
No matter what the gold men at Chi
cago may threaten to do, there should
not be the slightest receding from TIL
demand of the free and Independent
hcoinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to
The demand for free coinage should b
an ultinatum, not to be argued, NOT t
be discussed.