The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

We who appeal to the coming con-
vention against silver monometall1sm
are not all gold monometainsts- Many
of us are earnest bimetanists, eager
to see silver and gold made equal in
the coinage of our country. That
which for this crisis unites bimetalli5tS
and gold monometallists is
THE AWFUL SPECTRE
of silver monometallism. We cannot
hope to appeal with success to all Of
the silver delegates. The great body OF
them would not listen even to per-
suasion. The wild character of the
movement is shown in it's fury and
anger But there must be many silver
delegates who find themselves out OF
touch with fury and recklesSness; and
who can still be made to see where this
passion and excitement is carrying
them and the party, and possibly their
country. TO their sober reason t&is
meeting is an appeal. They may still
listen TO the solemn warnings of dis
passionate men, dispassionate Demo-
Gratis, dispassionate Americans. We
are here without passion, without fury,
with perfect vision Of the crisis that
is being forced upon the party and
the nation.
The questionable majority in the con-
vention, if not arrested by conserva-
tive silver men, will defeat the Demo-
cratic party.
But what does defeat on this issue
mean? Who can fail to know If the
Democratic party shall borrow this
populistic issue from the Populists
and be defeated, it will not regain the
| respect and
CONFIDENCE OF THE PEOPLE
for years and years to come; nor, af-
ter all those years. until it has been
born again? The silver movement will
pass, as the greenback movement has
/ passed and as have passed all that Sc
ries of historic attempts to make
money out of nothing; but, it will
leave the Democratic party hopelessly
discredited for maly years to come.
And what then is to become of all
those great interests and policies and
noble impulses and aims of the DEM
ocracy, which the Democratic party
alone can champion and defend?
This meeting is an appeal for the ma
ton and for the people. 1t Is an ap-
peal fer the party. Why make this
new platform when we al know only
part of the party can stand on 1t? Why
use an expected majority to force
policy new to Democratic platforms,
when every sober minded man knows
it must inevitably disrupt the party!
If the convention declares for free
coinage at 16 to l by this nation alone,
that action will not be Democratic &C
ton 1t will be Popuistic action. A
Democratic convention may turn Popu-
listic and many Democrats may turn
PopuIists, but a million Democrats will
remain Democrats. No wave of Pop
ulism can sweep them off their feet and
their feet are on the platform OF the
historic principles of the party.
John R. Fellows of New York closed
the meeting after brief speech by
Senator Gray of Delaware, with ring
ing invective against free silver. At
least six thousand people were present.
The audience seemed to include very
few delegates to the convention, so
that the practical success Of the meet
ing as a. missionary effort was PROD
lematical. A large proportion Of the
people were ladies. That part Of the
audience which differed from the SEN
timents pronounced by the orators
gave most of the time a respectful
side the speakers. ex-Congressman
William Everett of Massachusetts,,
Comptroller Eckels, Ex-Governor G..
W. Peck of Wisconsin and lesser lights.
William C. Whitney, during part of
the evening, held conspicuous posi-
ton in a box.
OBJECTS OF ENTHUSIASM.
Senator Hill of New York and Gov
ernor Russell of Massachusetts were
the objects of the greatest enthusi-
as11. That directed toward the New
York senator was wasted, however, for
he failed to put in an appearance.
When Mr.. MacVeagh, as presiding
officer. introduced Ex-Governor Russell,
he said that were it what is termed a
norma Democratic year." Mr.. Rus
sell would be one of the foremost can
didates for the highest honor in the
gift of his party, and there was such
q, responsive cheer as would fatter any
public man. Mr.. RuSselPs speech was
well received. Only once did the sill
yer symparhizers in the audience man
ifest their feelings with any vehe-
mence. The single outbreak occurred
when Mr.. MacVeagh attacked the adj
ministration of Governor Altgeld an
attack which inspired an Overwhelming
protest of bowls, Kisses and groanS
from the galleries, met by counter
cheers from the floor. Altogether the
audience seemed to be composed of a
majority of
ADMINISTRATION DEMOCRATS
for every allusion to President Cleve-
land and every tribute to his admin
istration was cheered with enthusi-
asm.
When Mr.. Russell thanked God that
we had not reached the threshold of
the ruin there was long and contin-
uous applause. It was question
whether the applause that fol- owed the
name of Mckinley was for the name
or the denunciation of Mckinley meth
DDS that followed.
The unexpected happened when the
orator mentioned the names of Jeffer-
son, Jackson and Cleveland The au-
dience was more enthusiastic than it
had been all the evening.
| GREAT GUNS.
| The longest distance that a shot has
been fired is few yards over fifteen
miles, which was the range of Krupp's