The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-28
SILVER IS AN ISSUE
cc--tones more Apparent IS s.s
Days Go BIZ.
IF NOT, WHY FIGHT IT
TIE NON Z AZEISAN rs
PLEDGES OF PLACE.
WHO Will Be Chief of Police if Not
Arthur Pratt?-And Who VIII
Head the Fire Department if Not
James Devine-Republican Fin
ances In Hard Shape-Lstter
From the Northumberland
Meetings-Other Political News.

As the days go by it is more and more
apparent that silver is an issue in this
campaign, despite the cry which is raised
against 1t by the opposition. a well-known
Democrat said yesterday: The non-par-
tisans declare silver is not an issue, as
the city has nothing to do with the coin
ing of it; the Republicans make similar
assertions All of which is the yeriest
tW1ddle The Democratic party does not
contend that the city ADM Illustration will
have anything to do with the increase OF
decrease of coinage. What ii does con-
tend Is that the election of a MAN on q
platform antagoniStic to silver, and the
platform which does noe declare for it, is
against it, would be construed as being a
declaration to the effect That Utah's tdltn
in the work of bimetallidm is waning tEat
every gold paper in the east would shout
in Elee and rOirt 70 ii as an ira ION
Of an alleged fact that a great SILVER state
le~ eaoulioeu tlle pl.neiklv, t,net ~ Woe!d
discourage the friends of blmetalism IN
the east and would retard the work the
men WHO are working for silver hope to
accomplish
Speakers are prone to declare that
Titan settled the silver issue last fall: that
by an Overwhelming majority this state
placed itself on record; that silver is an
issue in the east because. as y3t. the
eastern states have not declared for II.
"SilYer is just as much an issue mere to-
day as il was last fail, 1t viii be the is
victory won. SO long as ii is not reeog-
nlZed as standard money in the free sense
of the term, it will be an issue
lit would not have been an issue mad
the others dared declare for it, But the
non-pa rtiSan committee which nominated
the ticket did not say word in its favor.
Why? Because the synpathies of num-
Der if not a majority Of that committee
are for gold. It kept silent when q word
! would have brought the fight down 10 an
Issue on local questions alone so far as
rae tiqnr between Democrat and non-par-
tisans is concerned
ut would not have been an issue mad the
Republican marty. in its conventiou. de-
clared for it. But it did not. For fear
There NIGHT be some things said in it's IA
yor, p p, P. Christensen moved ~the
reference of all resolutions which n1ieht
come from the boCC of the house TO the
the marty dared not meet he issue for fear
of losing the few votes une gold men have
here and endangerfng the ticket. 1T nom
mated A. +. Dorenus. a sl1pporter of Nc
kinney. and an applicant for an office un-
der MS admfnisfrafjon for the same rea
son.
"Tbe Democratic party. true TO Its prin-
ciJy.s. endorsed the Chicago platform. N
stood firm in che cause II made an issue
of silver. all the efforts of the non-narti-
sans and ReuublfpauS To tho contrary not
withstanding.
'sTet This he remembered 1t has been
fSnlained in The Herald often enough hut
once more VIII not furt, that If either
Doremus the candidate of a party which
dared not express Itself on the matter Of
b.metallism, or Clark, the candidate Of a
committee which would not is elected.
the very dIcpasch which carries the news
from this CITY 10 the east on next Tuesday
evening win read thai Salt Lake Cttv
mas abandoned the himetullic nrinciule
and mas elected a gold man rnayor.'
''There IS no use arguing the point. ANY
sensible person will admit It; the Repub-
Leans know II; the non-partisans know &
And so soon as that information reaches
} the people of the east, every corporate
/ organ OF the money power. every subgl-
died sheet in the land will point TO the
fact in glee while the silver press of the