The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-14
WHY SILVER MUST BE AN
ISSUE.

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Yesterday the Tribune quoted from
The Herald the following:
If silver has no proper place in q nu-
nicipal campaign, why Is It that Sena-
tor Foraker of Ohio introduced the sub
Ject in a political speech in New York
City? Why does he say that Henry
Georges candidacy stands for free sill
yer? Why is it that the whole nation.
which is watching the municipal cam
pafSn in New York City, looks upon
the outcome of it as being fraught with
momentous consequences to the com
try so far as the silver question is con-
cerned? Why is 1t that the London
papers which have discussed the mt
nlcipaI campaign in New York City
have discussed it from the standpoint
of its bearing on the silver issue?
In the campaign in this city the sill
YER question is a distinct Issue from
the simple fact that the Dem crats
have made it SO by the declarations of
their platform; and It can't be elm
mated
Our contemporary makes answer to
this after this fashion:
In answer to the first paragr JPN. it is
sufficient 10 say that silver is being
dragged into the campaign N New
AoAH kAASly lpi pa ~ PhN f)toESs cltils
New York is the head center Of the
goldite power in the Un1tad States in
the interest of that power, it is openly
charged that Mr.. Plat has made
combine with the TaminanY chiefs, that
through his work, Tammany which
was true to silver last year, has bee
silenced now, and the purpose is tc FIX
/ the city offices that eaet. one viii be a
/ goldite recruiting sta-i01 next year.
The moment the Democratic and Re
publican parties entered the political
field in the Greater New York campaign
they carried with them the issues witch
| divide them. Silver IS in the Greater
New York municipal campaign the
| same as it is in the Salt Lake city
campaign; how it got in, like the ques-
! ton of how original sin got into the
world, is one on which men viii Off
! fer, each holding to his awn opinion.
In this city the Democratic PARTY
| stands as the champion of free silver
and the Republican party stands as its
| antagonist.
| Our contemporary says that New
York is the head center of the god tie
power in the United States, q truth
none will deny, and it says further
that in the interest of that power it is
! charged that Mr.. Plat has made deal
whereby the city Offices are ~ be used
as goldite recruiting stations. Al of
which shows that the silver question
is most decidedly in issue IN NeW York.
The gold party everywhere through
out the country is trying to do what it
is attempting in New York. and it is
this fact which makes it so essential
that the friends of silver in the silver
states stand shoulder to shoulder and
show the enemy that there has bean 10
slackening of interest IN the great
question. The very fact that the OPP
ponents of silver everywhere are try
ing to make the elections this year
demonstrate that the 'sl:var craze,
as they term it, has died OUT or is fast
dying out, makes it absolutely neces-
sary that where it is as str5nS as -ver
that it be 50 shown by the people de-
claring themselves in favor Of IL can
the friends of silver in the west afford
to be quiescent while the friends of
the gold standard in the cast are Mill
tant? Quiescenee on the silver ques-
! llOA III Inc HluhlSipal campaigns u the
west will be construed in the goldite
east as Indifference to it And it
would be Indifference TO it. The silver
question a matter OF no concern III cur
local election. There is nothing more
important.
\ The Tribune having. seen fit TO ivin
a movement in local politics which has
for its chief object the taking away
from the people of the power of nom
mating candidates for municipal Of
fee and placing it in the han1s Of a
few gentlemen who hold only secret
meetings when considering public af-
fairs. it is not at all surprising that it
does not see how intimately the silver
cause is connected with the local cam
} paign. Having abandoned popular
: ways in nominating candidates for mu-
nieipal Office. its apparent abandon
ment of that most popular of all ques-
tions-the silver question is perhaps
logical If unexpected