The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-19

election, defend them at his front gate
The great and important issue which
is just now coming around the corner
is the one of sound money. and we can
no more dodge it, than we can gravita-
ton.
In this respect the situation is easily
simple, but certainly serious a de-
cisfon upon this important question
must be made by this convention. and
remember, gentlemen, a nation listens
to catch the click of its fate.
For Senator Allison you cannot build
too strong platform for sound money
and if you place him upon 1T, he will
see 60 it that the dry roo of 10 TO l does
net steal through its timbers.
The United Staes can not make good
money by simply placing its
SYMBOL OF SOVEREIGNTY
or mark of authority on any kind of
metal. regardless of its commercial
value CIR relations to foreign courftraes'
than Il can extend its domain by eal-
ing a furlorg a mile
He believes that the American doliar
should have some grains OF seilse
as well as more Of silver; tnat uLel e.
can be no stability to our currency OF
money if we keep adopting such SHIRT
ing policies as that under them the
same piece may be a copper cent IN one
hand or a dollar in another.
He believes that unlimited coinage
would soon lead to unlimited bank
ruptcy.
No honest farmer would borrow from
his neighbor a. bushel of 50-cent wheat
and insist upon paying him back with
a bushel of 25-cent oats, and so this
axnoSst In
its credit at the highest point If it bor-
rows a dollar and insists upon paying
back with 50-cent silver, any other
construction of the word coin in any
laws or any contracts to the contrary
notwithstanding. The platform OF this
conventions
MUST BE FOR SOUND MONEY,
and in clear. ringing, unmistakable
terms. On any other. construction of it
the party may get into power, but the
country would be in danger of failing
into the batch of bankrupt goveEn-
ments and the end of the party's adj
ministration it would probably have no
more of an estate than did Rabelias,
whose will, when opened, read: I'm the
IIana of God, amen. have nothing.
/ owe much I give the rest to the
poor"
AT time when a nation wildly looks
at another nation, standing with mute
lips apart Allison did not meet with
clenched first the proffered hand of in
ternatioDai adjustment. However, he
has stood uxryaver;ngly by the Mon
roe doctrine snd insisted that the Uni
ted States should recognize any people
struggling for liberty and republican
institutions, even if they are insur-
gents in Cuba | ask you to nominate
him. If you do, the people from the
sand-enshrouded Mexican line to the
life wire that separates us from an I'M
born daughter on the north, will shout
as in one glorious glad anthem, THE
Old Temple of Republication Still
Stands. Flock to II. for Shelter
If you do every keynote of the cam
paign will be kept at concert pitch If
you do, the White house viii be used
no longer as an experiment. station.
Nominate him and not now perhaps.
but when the strife is over, his name
VIII fall like millenial music on yo,Ir
ears.
Nominate him and thrill of joy will
go from the west to the east. carrying
ON us trembling way the songs of cur.
reapeTs, only to be lost in the l-oare of
your furnaces. Nominate him and when
OUT corn grows gold in autumn's time.
When our hocks are teeqning and our
granarfes fun. every spindle will he
turning day and night upon the Mer-
rimac -
LODGE NoMINATEs REED
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana. were
called no one responding Upon the
can OF Maine, Henry Cabot Lodge of
massachusetts, took the speakers stand
and spoke as follows:
Four Ve9rq Oo VIC mot -. -
REPRESENTATIVES of the Republican party
prosperity was in the land Capital wa
confident and labor employed There was
lhe good days wage for the good day s
WORK ana the spirit of American enter
prise was stirring and bold The treas
e ery was fuii, the public revenues ample
Tor the public needs. We were at pesce
with all the world and had placed a prf,-
aent hand on the key of the Pacific. Four
snort years have come and gone
LOOK about now. The treasury is EMMY
our credit is impaired. Our revenues are
defclent. We meet the public need NOT
Win income, but by borrowing at high
rates and pledging the future for the
wants of the present. Business is nara
Used. Confidence has gone Enterprise
mas Iolded Its eagle wings and mopes and
Drinks in market place.
OUR MILLS ARE IDLE
and our railroads crippled. CAPITAL hides
USER and labor idly walks the street
mere is neither a good days wage nor
good days work. We have met WIN
shgnts abroad and have serious differ
ence with our national adyersarv Tba
key of the Pacific has slipped from nerve.
less hands. Foreign troops have been land
ed IN this hemisphere. Our boundaries have
peen threatened in Alaska The Monroe
uoclrine mas been defended but is not
boring island fighting for freedom look
toward us with imploring eyes and look
IN Valn The American policy which
would protect our industries at home and
away. GU
Look then upon thic nio+,,ra ,r1 -
this anu oii
Gould you on that fair mountain leave
TO feed and fatten on this moore"
But four short years have come and
gone and they have brought this change.
What has happened?
L will tell you in a word The Demo-
cratic party has been in power. That is
the answer.
UPON US FALLS THE HEAVY BUR
DEN
of binding up these wounds and bringing
relief to allay this suffering. The Demo-
Gratis deceived the people by promising
them the millennium and the miserable
results of those promises are seen. We
pledge ourselves only to that which we
believe we can perform. We will do our
beSt mat is all. AS in 1865 we saved
the Union and abolished slavery so now
in 1895 we will deal with the Democratic
legacy of blunders, bankruptcy and mis-
fortune.
We are gathered here to choose the
next president of the United States. That
we will win in the election no man
doubts. but let us not deceive ourselves
with the pleasant fancy that the cam
paign is to be an easy one. 1t will be a
hard battle. 1t cannot be otherwise when
SO much depends upon the result Against
the Republican party representing fixed
American policies, strength, progress and
order, will be arrayed not only that or
ganized failure. the Democratic party, but
all the wandering forces of