The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-29

| silver advocates can so amalgamei te
as to show their full voting strength,
and at the same time having nothing
in their declaration of principles or
| platform which would be diametrically
opposed to any distinct class of voters,
except, of course, the free coinage of
silver. A few weeks ago tho eXecu-
tive committee of the National BIZ
metallic union met in Washington, D..
c., and formulated and adopted q, line
of acton intended to be pursued should
either or both of the two great parties
ignore the financial issue. This COM
mittee is composed of acknowledged
bimetallists from each state and terri
tory in the Union, and, as has been
said before, the members thereof rep
resent all shades of political opinion,
but are a unit upon monetary reform.
This organization has a large mem
berShip, and it seems quite evident
that with a wise handling of the forces
of this union, and if a desire is mani
tested by the various other silver forces
to amalgamate under the common BAN
ner of bimetallism, the combination
thus made would, in my opinion, be
of such formidableneSS as to strike a
telling blow at the monometallic com
bine. 1t must be understood that the
writer does not assume that the Ma
tional Bimetallic union proDer will
eventually become a national political
party, but that through the agency of
this union a third party movement
will be inaugurated which will have for
it's object of course, monetary reform,
and have in it's platform nothing but
what may be mutually conceded or
accepted by the various factions which
are to make up this aggregation 1t
is a fact believed by many bimetallists
that in a third party movement resides
the only hope for the satisfactory set
tlement of this great issue. They say
that adherence to party lines, as they
are now drawn, will never lead the
silver forces to a. realization of their
hopes. Like all great reforms which
have been consummated in the past,
the people must be heard from in an
other direction. They must rise up en-
masse under the double standard
banner, and, unhindered and unincum-
bered by any theory which will tend
to detract from the main issue, strike
the blow, which, once struck, will
emancipate millions who are now suf-
fering from the evil consequences en-
gendered by the practical application
of the monometallic theory. We find
some men, however, who are bimetal-
lists. or claim to be such, and who also
movement, and advise that the ques-
ton be fought strictly on party lines,
no matter what the national conven-
tons may do at their coming delibera-
tions-even should they declare against
silver But it would appear, if this
latter class are loyal to silver,
their argument does not present very
logical hue, as, for instance, if the
party to which this last named class
belong should declare for the single
standard, or present the usual stereo-
typed plank which means mcnometal-
lism, and they (the so-called bimetal-
lists, claiming to be for free silver,
advise and admonish the people TO still
stand loyal for party success, and at
the same time the position assumed by
the party and the belief expressed by
this class of voters being directly in
opposition of each other, it may be
asked, and that inte1ligently, is
not the third party movement
IA Their to be chosen than to
stultify ones self by voting
for the success of party rather than
endeavoring by our influence and suff-
RACES to show our loyalty to a cause
which has humanitarianism for it's OBJ
ject? Those who advocate party sue