The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-24
LEGISLATIVE TICKET.

Does any friend of silver wish to
send man to the United States sem
ate from Utah who would be affiliated
with the gold standard party?
If there is any such person in Utah
it must be that he does not under
stand how party interests and the
interests of measures of legis-
lation are intertwined in both houses
of congress. 1t is not enough
for a senator to say that he will vote
for free coinage bill; he must be will
ing to fight on the side of free coin
age in all the skirmishes bearing, no
matter how indirectly, upon the finan-
cial question-and he cannot do that
in the Republican party.
Why did Teller, Dubois and Petit
grew get out of the Republican party?
Because they could not continue the
fight for silver within that party. They
could not continue as party men-as
Republican party men-and at the
same time carry on the contest for
free coinage. Party obligations are
such that these senators could no
longer take the same upon themselves.
Understand, it is not proposed to
elect an independent Republican here.
No matter who is chosen, he will be
expected to fully assume the ordinary
party obligations. The straight Repub-
licans viii have contributed toward his
election, Mckinley gold standard
money will have been used in his cam
paign, and he will go to the senate
bound by all party rules. He will ac-
cept in the face of the demonstration
that we have had of the incompat-
Utility of party loyalty and loyalty to
free coinage, and he will, in the very
nature of things, have made up his
mind to pass under the party yoke,
thus having his hands tied with the
bonds which Teller, Dubois and Petit
grew have thrown off.
1t is practically certain that, in the
event of Republican success, Senator
Brown will be reelected. All know
that he would not take the position de-
sired by supporters of free coinage:
but if any other Republican is chosen
it is inevitable that he will have made
up his mind to fully assume those
party obligations that would make
him next to useless as a champion of
financial reform.
1t is true that Senator Cannon, who
bolted the party with the other SEN
ators named, is supporting the Repub-
lican programme here. It is possible
that he hopes to elect a man who will
take an independent position. If that
is true, the senator is not dealing
fairly with the other wing of the party;
and, if The Herald is not greatly mis-
taken, the people of Utah viii not
support ticket on an assumption that
presumes trickery and bad faith. No
good results could flow from an cleo
ton brought about by methods so
lacking in principle. Every man who
should vote for the Republican ticket
on the theory that one wing of the
party was to be deceived, would him
self be a deceiver-and The Herald
does not think that the manhood and
womanhood of Utah will be found in
that category.
So we are squarely confronted with
the plain proposition that the only safe
course-the only straightforward, man
~, consistent course-is to elect Dem
ocratic senator. This will involve the
election of a Democratic legislature
Every friend of free coinage should re-
solve to support the legislative candi-
dates of the Democratic party; and
this duty is particularly pressing here
in Salt Lake county, the large delega-
ton from which may decide the polit-
ical complexion of the legislature.