The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-18
SINCERITY.


Our contemporary down the street
asks the Utah State Journal if it has
ever seen anything to cause it to doubt
the sincerity of President Mckinley, or
the bimetallic commission, in regard to
silver.
There is plenty of evidence to con-
vince any true friend Of silver that
there is absolutely no desire on the
part of the president or his commission
to do s1ything to promote the cause
of binetallisrn.
Mr. wolcott, who heads the commits
sion and who is responsible for its
acfs and doings. in, the main, was a
constant supporter of Mr.. Mckinley
and his platform last fall. and, though
that platform declared against bimetal-
ism, except by international agree
ment, it was known then that there
was absolutely no chance for an agree
ment. Our contemporary recognized
this at the time and declined to SUD-
port both the candidate and platform.
as much for the want of sincerity as
for any other cause.
The temper of the st. Louis conven-
ton was as absolutely against silver
as the sentiment of the Chicago con-
yention was for it.
The declaration of the st. Louis con-
vention against the free coinage of sill
yer, except by international agreement,
was a SOP thrown to those Republic
ans who believed in the cause of silver,
in the hope that some. at least, might
be induced to support the candidate
and platform, believing that there
would be a chance to bring about an
International agreement
No honest silver Republican believed
in the sincerity Of the declaration for
! a single moment, and everything that
has occurred since then has gone to
establish the fact that the declaration
was sham and delusion. Mr. VOL
colt did not believe there was the least
possible show Of an international
agreement then, and he knows for a
/ certainty that there is none now His
effort TO bring it about today is not
with the hope of success, or even the
desire for it, but for the sole purpose
of enabling the senator TO make a fight
! for reelection.
The recommendation by the president
of the resolutions adopted by the In
dianapolis convention is proof positive
that he has no hope of an international
agreement and that ne does not desire
it. If we mistake not, cur contempor-
airy has often given expression to the
! thought that there was great lack OF
( sincerity on the part of the Republican
parry, so far as International bimetal-
! lism was concerned
Will our contemporary point to g
single Republican paper that may ir
very truth be accounted as in thorough
harmony with the present administers
ton, that is today advocating inter
national bimetallism?
| Certainly some of the administration
papers ought to know something re.
garding the real state of the president
mind on this subject. Does our con-
/ temporary believe for single moment
that if the president was in real ear.
nest regarding an international agree
ment, that some prominent newspaper
known to be in touch with him would
not be urging the proposition?
The leading English newspapers arc
saying that there viii be no agreement
and they are supposed to be in har.
mony with the sentiment of the cabinet
ministers. These papers refer to the
sending of the commission to Europe
as q. grand farce.
This commission was sent across The
water merely to carry out the declara-
ton of the platform, and also, if trutf
was known, to help destroy the silver
sentiment in this country by demon
strating the fact that an internationa
agreement is impossible