The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-01

idea which the wheels in the brains
of men could evolve, buzzed and whirl-
ed through days of talk, but the net
result was Bryan Government owner
ship of railroads, telegraph and tele-
phone lines, initiative and referendum
silver money and more money had
their advocates and at the end, on as
surances that all who voted for Bryan
would be equally recognized, Mr.. Bry-
an was almost the unanimous choice
of the convention. Because, therefore,
1 believe that free coinage will come
through the efforts of the Republican
party, and because the Democratic and
Populist platforms,
EXCEPT ON THE MONEY CUES
TON
are odious and hostile to the welfare of
our country, l shall not cast my vote
for Mr.. Bryan.
L hold my commission from the Re
publican party. Many of its members,
including some of its leaders, in the
exercise of their Judgment, have an
.nounced their intention of leaving the
party. shall stay. My loyalty to the
party which has honored me is en-
tirely consistent with my loyalty TO
the highest and best interests of the
state l represent in the senate OF the
United States, and 1 know no reason
why L should abandon my party or
desert its colorS. There is to my mind
no reason why it was not as much our
duty to vote for Weaver four years
ago, as for Bryan today. The Omaha
platform declared for free coinage and
was no more Objectionable than the
Chicago platform; and Bryan is vouch-
ed for by leading Populists as being
as good a Popuhst as lives The
Populists have not changed in the
past four years. 1t is we who are
expected to join their aggregation
Others may
FIND IT WISE OR EXPEDIENT,
but 1 won't do it. Whenever the course
OF events could make it possible that
should speak from the same platform
as Tillman or Waite or Ignatius Don
nelly, in advocacy Cf the same presi-
Dental candidate, know there must
be something wrong with me. What
we need in Colorado is less Mysteries
and more common sense. We have
glorious resources, yet in the infancy
of their development; we are suffering
from the imposition of a mistaken
financial policy, which it is our natural
and proper desire to SO overthrow as
speedily as possible. We are one of
forty-five states in the union, each free
and sovereign. Within our borders live
about one one-hundred and fiftieth of
the people of the United States. We
live in a republic where the majority
rules. The vast majority of the people
Of the United States are honest and of
high average intelligence, and devoted
to the perpetuity of free institutions.
Our great desire is to induce a major
ity of the people of the United States to
believe as we believe. The way to the
accomplishment of this result is not by
vituperation and abuse. The
PRESS OF THE COUNTRY,
east as we'll as west, is largely re-
spon sible for the bitter sectional feel
ing now sought to be invoked. 1t is for
us who do not own or control news
papers, and are not in the habit of
throwing mud, to remember that of
the millions of people who will cast
their ballots this fall, nearly all are as
patriotic as we are, and, with us,
equally DESTROYS that this republic shall
live and not die. The people of the
east are our brothers, we sprung from
the same ioinS, we have a common
country a. common faith and the same
dear flag. The gospel of hate which is
now being preached should find no fol-
lowers among sane men, no welcome
among good citizens.
We who believe in the free coinage of
both gold and silver at our minis at
the ratio heretofore existing, will Sc
cure the adoption of our views when we
are able to induce the majority of our
fellow citizens TO share our belief;
when people who do not now agree
with US shall be led to agree with us,
not alone because OF our arguments on
finance, but because our views on other
great questions entitle US to public
confidence and respect. Free coinage
will never come, in my opinion, out of
the tumble and folly of the Chicago
platform, nor will it be heralded by the
cap and bells of Populism.
"EDWARD 0. WOLCOTT.''