The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-21
THE SILVER ADDRESS.

Senator Henry NJ. Teller and six of
his associates who 1sithdrew from the
St Louis convention have put forth an
address to the people of the United
States. 1t is an able and unanswerable
document, but that which will at first
most impress itself upon all who read
lit is the sincerity of the men, who
signed it. We ~egret exceedingly that
the names of Senator Cannon. Repre-
! sentative Allen and Mr.. Kearns do not
appear upon it, though no one doubts
that they will :ndorse every thing in it.
The address first states the reasons
which prompted those who withdrew
from the st. Louis convention to take
the action they did. 1t then states that
the Democratic party having taken a
position SO favorable to silver and hav-
ing nominated candidates of such I'M
questionable convictions upon the sub
ject, they have determined to support
them; and they do it because these cam
didates represent the great principle
of bimetallism; they will support
Bryan and Sewall, they declare, by
voice and vote. Senator Teller and his
fellow signatories appeal especially to
those Republicans who feel that gold
monometallism would be a lasting in
jury to the country to do what they
can to secure the election of Bryan and
Sewal. ITO those" say they, who
believe in bimetallism, which means
the equal treatment of both gold and
silver at the minis of the nation, there
Is but one course to pursue, and that is
to oppose with all our might the candi-
date representing the policy which we
believe fraught with disaster to the ma
ton and ruin to the people, That is
as patriotic an appeal as ever issued
from a continental congress or from
any patriot the country has ever pro-
duced. The course pointed out by SEN
ator Teller and associates is the only
honest, consistent course that those
who believe in silver can pursue. Can
any man in the state of Utah support
Mckinley and consistently claim that
ne is silver man? Major Mckinley
stands the champion of gold and the
avowed enemy Of free coinage. AS this
address says, Mckinley consented to
the insertion of the gold standard in
the St. Louis platform, thinly veneered
with a declaration for bimetaliism,
when other nations should consent to
the same There is no hope for inter-
national bimetallism until the United
States establish it for themselves, says
this address. That is exactly the case.
Let this nation take action for itself
and lead, and other nations will very
soon take notice of its action and fol-
low its example
The address severely arraigns Nc
Kintey for his course on the financial
question and shows him up in any
thing but an envia.ble light, while it
pays a well-deserved tribute to Mr..
Bryan. 1t defines clearly what the
course Of all friends of silver should
be; and its reasoning in this regard
cannot be overturned. It fully justifies
the bolt at st. Louis, and points the
way for all who would further the
cause of silver. 1t is a document that
cannot be answered by the gold men
or the Mckinley adherents. 1t is sober
honest and earnest, and is unmarried by
any vituperation of anybody, casting
no slurs, making no reflections; in this
respect it is markedly in contrast with
the denunciatory and condemnatory
rawlings of some of the gold men and
press. 1t is a model of what such an
address should be. it is convincing and
unanGwerable.