The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-04

$500 worth OF printing on the strength
of It,
THAT shows how we have had to
pull along and get out of every emer-
gency soma way. l wish the people
who are able TO give could bring them
selves 10 a realiza ton that a dollar now
is worth many times what ii will be,
and will go many times farther than
it will later when the gold men have
got the people to reading their itera-
ture and we have got to counteract
its effect. To show you the contrast
between the amount of money that is
being expended on the two sides in
literature the Democratic committee
has, up to the present time, sent out
three million and a half documents IN
the whole United States while up to
last Saturday night the Republican
committee had distributed 20,000,00O
documents from Chicago and they
do not supply any of the eastern states
from Chicago but cover them from
New York You will see that we must
send out more literature but we must
have more money with which TO do
it for we are spending every dollar we
can get hold of in printing now. If
we don't get more money, 1 don't see
what we are going 10 Go when we
come to send out our speakers, for
their expenses must be paid, which
viii entail an expense of at least $4,000
a day.
The reason we find so much diff
Guilty now in raising funds is, that the
men like Brice, Whitney and all the
others to whom we could formerly go
for almost any amount, have left us
and are contributing TO the gold cause
what they used to give to the Demo-
cratic committee, and we must needs
depend upon the patriotism of the peo-
pie less able to give. If there was
ever a campaign that was a fight be-
tween capital and the people. it is
certainly exemplified in the present
one. I sincerely hope the people of the
western states who seem generally bet
ter able to give than their eastern
brethren and who are equally. il not
more vitality, interested in the triumph
of the silver cause, viii see the great
necessity and come to the assistance
of the committee by contributing as
literally as possible.
Turning his attention to other topics
Mr.. Johnson said:
''Ar. Bryan is making marvellous
record and is doing a world Of good
I scarcely believe there was ever such
another campaign. There certainly has
never been another public man so en-
Enthusiastically received by the people as
he is being and his speeches are sim
ply unanswerable. Then, being
printed in all the newspapers, they
reach the people as no other argument
could be made TO- and they are read
and have their effect"
Speaking of the situation in New
York, Mr.. Johnson said:
1.-The situation in New York IS very
different from what many people be-
lieve The Republican party is not
n
on the contrary Mr.. Bryan Will poll
heavy Republican vote in the western
part of the state, where the silver cause
is a burning question, and the country
people are with it, Republican and
Democrat At Governor, town In
the western part of the state, a Bryan
and Sewall silver club was organized
with $50 charter members and ITO OF
them were Republicans. Senator Faux
ner told me of Republican who lived
in one of the western towns, 1 forget
the name of it, who had distributed 800
copies of silver lilteraituGe-a5 an i1ldi-
yidual effort-wdich he procured at a
cent a copy, so you can see THE number
of people he rea cllsGt These are only two
of many like incidents that have come
to my notice. l think there is every
reason to believe we will carry New
York for the Tammeny organization
Will control below the Harlem river and
poll its normal majority and 1 think
that in the western part of the state
we Will poll enough Republican votes
to more than Offset the number Of
Democrats VINO vote the gold ticket,
so that the state organization which
will come out in support of Bryan and
Sewan at it's convention, will go down
TO the Harlem river with its normal
majority. l think therefore that we
may feel very satisfied Of New York.
Mr.. Bryan himself is very confident
he will carry it. He is not a man given
to chimeTical weaknesses and he said to
me when I saw him last, that he felt
he would carry New York as sure as
he lived to election day
Speaking of Ohio, Mr.. Johnson ex-
pressed the belief that Mckinley would
have the hardest fight to hold it of any
state reckoned in his column. even if he
succeeded at all. "One of the judges
Of the supreme court OF the state. " said
he, who is rampant gold man, told
me that the people of Ohio are simply
consumed with the silver question and
that notwithstanding the natural pride
the people of Ohio might be expected
to be Influenced by in having the pres
ident elected from their state, and the
enormous amount of money that is be-
ing spent there, he did not believe Nc
Kiniey could hold the state"
Mr.. Johnson then related am incident
that occurred to him in Nebraska as
indicating the feeling for Bryan in his
own state Il was standing on the
street at Grand Island said he, and
observing an Old farmer standing near
1 approached him. He told me he lived
about eight miles in the country and
that he was Republican. He said he
took no great interest in rOiirics huf
that everybody else in his neighbor-
hood seemed TO be taking the liveliest
kind of an interest and that the whole
community was for Bryan without re-
Spect to party He told me of a couple
of incidents OF two threShing outfits
being polled as indicating the senti-
ment in his section. There were seven
teen men in one gang and singularly
enough the poll resulted 16 to l in favor
of Bryan. The other had twenty men
and they stood eighteen for Bryan and
two for Mckinley. These two incidents
of course do not decide the state. but I
found 1T that way everywhere and there
is no more doubt In my mind that Ne
braska is safe than there appears to be
that Utah is.
Mr.. Johnson is not given to amy sort
of enthusiasm bur on the contrary is
directly the reverse. He speaks slowly
and impresses one as being a logical
reasoner from facts which present
themselves to him.
The call for the Democratic county
convention, which was decided upon
several days ago, was issued yesterday
by Chairman D. c. Dunbar as follows:
A convention. of the Dem ocrats of
Salt Lake county, consisting of 40 dele