The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-07
DEMOCRACY, CANNON AND SILL
YER.

A contemporary referring to the dis
cussion of the problem as to Senator
Cdnnon's reelection, by the Denver
News, seems to think that the trouble
with Senator Cannon will be that here
in Utah there is no Democratic senti-
ment for free silver outside of what can
be done by the Democratic party.
Senator Cannon has not declared him
self with reference to the senatorial
election. Some time will elapse before
that important event takes place. OF
course he is not in harmony with the
Republican party, but it is not to be
presumed that when he differed with
his party leaders ne had the senator
ship in view. He is entitled to be given
credit for refusing to follow the lead
Of his party purely from principle re-
CARELESS Of any effect it might have
upon the senatorial election.
So far as the Democracy of Utah is
concerned it is in line with the Demo-
cracy Of the nation. The declaration
of the Chicago platform of 1896 leaves
no room for doubt as to the position
Of the Democracy relative to silver.
That a true friend of silver should look
to the Democratic party for a just and
equitable adjustment of the silver pro-
position should not be considered un-
usual. The tone of our COMMEMORATIVE
remarks on this subject would seem to
convey the idea that there is something
wrong about silver man looking to
the Democratic party to settle the silver
question. Certainly there is no fpe for
silver from the Republicans. T6e pres
ent administration has fully settled one
thing and that is that no legislation
favorable to silver need be expected.
OF course President Mckinley oc-
casionally refers to bimetallism and
his appointment of a commission to go
to Europe might have been taken as an
indication that he was honestly desir-
Gus of bringing about an international
agreement, but when he named for his
secretary of the treasury one of the
most pronounced single gold standard
men to be found in his party, and sent
to the congress in the closing hours of
the special session a message com
mending the action of the Indianapolis
convention declaring for the single gold
standard, it does not leave much room
for speculation as to the purpose of
the administration regarding silver.
Friends of the silver cause have been
severely criticised by our contemporary
because they do not hold up the pres
dents hands. and yet a moments con-
sideration by any friend of silver ought |
to be sufficient to convince them that
the powers that be in the Republican
party are not now, nor Will they be in
the near future, in any way friendly to
silver. With each recurring day the i
brings evidence of the jubilant |
feeling among the goldbugs and the |
golobug press in the east over the con-
slant decline in the price of silver. |
Our contemporary would seem to hold !
out the impression that there is some !
means of salvation, or some hope out
side of the Democratic party for silver,
but from what source the information I
comes or the light shines forth to in
spire this thought none save our con-
temporary can see. The deathkneiI of
the silver cause may have been sounded
and the cause may be lost forever, but
if it eyer is wrested from the throttling
grasp OF the gold standard men it win
be through the efforts of the Demo-
cratic party
BY this it is not meant that all friends
Of silver will have to espouse the cause
Of Democracy, but it does mean that
the friends of silver will have to rally
with the Democratic hosts and fight
with them and for them, for the time
being at least. if the cause is ever won.