The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-31

as the Republican party now IN power
claimed it was not national question,
but must be let alone for other nations
to say how we should adjust our finan-
cial matters. Such seems to be the I'M
American principle of the leaders of the
Republican party. To win our cause is
to agitate it. at all times, at your ire
side, on the street corners, and the
stump. Never sueeunb till your victory
is gained.
Now. my old soldier club and COM
rades and Republican friends. some OF
you may think we organized the Old
Soldiers Bryan club just for the time
being. but it is not so. Over 300 of US
electors pledged ourselves to advocate
the cause OF free silver at all times
till the final result was accomplished,
and not support by ballot any person
for office, whether high or low. unless
they advocated our preamble and reSo-
lutions, as laid down in the Chicago
platform, on which Hon. ". ]. Bryan
was nominated for the presidency. That
platform was made by true American
JefTersonian Republioan-DeInOc
cutting out the goldbug Cleveland,
Buckner. Palmer and Hill un-Ameriean
Democrats and purifying the party &C
cording TO the demands of the people.
l therefore appeal to Your better Judg-
ment and ask YOU which is the true
friend to us and the working class.
either locally, nationally and univer-
sally? The one that supported the sin
gle gold standard or the one adYocat
ing the free and unlimited coinage Of
silver? If il is the one claiming that
we must first ask (Johnny Bulb the
Republican party, vote it, and demon
strate that your covenants and re6o-
lutions have lost their force very soon
after signing them. But if you want
your cause to succeed, advocate silver
and vote at all elections for the Ameri-
can Democratic silver party until we
win. You cannot have 'possum in the
east and coon in the west for lunch,
! and call them both coon or 'poSSum as
! the case may be, to suit Wall street.
| Neither can YOU advocate the great
cause now agitating the minds of all
! true Americans in the east, and be
| silent and mum as a clam in the west,
| locally or otherwise.
! In a small town in Illinois in the
year 1856 four of us believed and ad-
vocated the cause of Itepublioanism-
| Three national platforms were formed.
! We advocated the one John G. FIRE.
mont was nominated upon. The eiec-
! ton soon passed with defeat to cur
| choice and principles and the election
! of Buchanan. Not being discouraged
! we continued, locally, at every election
!
| up to 1850. The final result history re-
| lates. the election of that illustrious
! man, a Lincoln. 1t was the result of
| the local agitation OF our cause. Fin
| ally the then pure Republican party,
with its American Democratic friends.
! saved the Union from dissolution; and
liberated 1000, eco of the colored race
to enjoy the Liberties of the republic.
But soon after the death of the illus
! trious Lincoln the great Republican
party began, by its leaders, to be cor
rupt, and in 1873. with complete control
Of the government, demonetized the
! peoples money, causing shrinkage of
values more than SO per cent. In 1896
the Republican party, being so weak,
| coWardiY and un-American, inserted a
! plank in it's platform asking other ma
tons how we should adjust CUR finan-
eial affairs; might as we'll lined our
great armies on the north side of the
Ohio river in 1862. then stopped to ask
England if we could go ahead and do
battle for the preservation of the coun-
try and Union. In the SOS the Repub-
lican party was pure and had a mis-
! sion to perform, and as soon as it did
| that, by manipulating the laWs by
paid legislators, began to. and today il
! stands shoulder TO shoulder with the
moneyed classes and against the
masses.
With that history of the once great
Republican party before me. I cannot
affiliate till it is purged of it's corrupt
office holders and grabbers, and ask
you. as true Americans, TO stand firm,
by Americas friends and vote the
American Democratic silver ticket unit
your cause is victorious.
G. r, BERRY,