The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-08
cspecial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
Washington, d. c., Feb. 3--Several
eastern Republican papers have been
diligently circulating a report that the
silver Republicans are organizing for
the purpose of forcing the nomination
/ of Charles A. Towne for the presidency
I in 1900 All the leading silver Republic
cans vigorously repudiate the assertion
Mr.. Towne has repeatedly declared
/ himself in favor of the fullest co-opera-
ton between the several silver parties
/ in the next presidential election, and
also as believing Mr.. Bryan the logical,
! in fact inevitable candidate in l9OO
In an interview with the representa-
tive of The Herald, Senator Frank j.
Cannon also helps to stamp out the re
port He says: Charles a Towne IS
not a candidate for the presidency. He
does not seek to have the silver Repub-
1 licans nominate him to that high office,
nor does he present himself TO the DEM
ocracy as a compromise candidate.
Mr. Towne is in some respects the
1 most distinguished and able advocate
of bimetallism in the United States. He
is consecrated to the cause, and that
cause he holds above individual ambi-
ton, either of himself or any friend,
either in or out of politics. There has
been no thought among the silver Re
publicans of advancing any especial
man as candidate for the presidency,
or of permitting fraternal zeal or par
tisan feeling to make any breach in the
modified ranks of the bimetallic army.
All our effort has been to solldify the
granite wall against which the forces
of the gold standard, the trusts and the
corruption of the people must march TO
their destruction in 1860. There is no
new crusade for silver, and its keynote
has not been sounded by Senator VOL
colt or by any other gold standard, hi
metallic or Mckinley Republican. The
voice of the gospel of the people Will
not be heard from that quarter. The
crusade for silver in 1900 is the crusade
of the ages led by devoted friends of
the people, against the wrongs which
tyranny would infiict upon them. There
has been no change in the ratio, nor
any attempted change by the bimetallic
forces. The clarion cry is this year as
it was in 1896, as it has been uttered by
William J. Bryan a thousand times
since then, and as it will be uttered, l
believe, in 1900 the constitutional
money of the people-gold and silver
with equal rights at the mints, with
legal tender authority, and with equal
circulation, the mintage to be at the
historical, moral and natural ratio of
16 to l.
No conference has been held at
Washington or elsewhere by the leaders
of the silver Republican party for the
purpose of antagonizing William J.
Bryan, or for the purpose of DETECTING
any affection which the people may
hold for him, or for the purpose of lead
ing public opinion away from its adj
miration of his wonderful ability, in
tegrity and fitness for the exalted Of
flee for which he was nominated in
1896, and for which he WILL in all prob
ability. be nominated in 1900. 1t is true
that the silver Republicans voted for
him in 1896 freely, enthusiastically. 1t
is not true that they will refuse to fol-
low him in 1900. If he shall be a can
didate OF the united bimetallic forces,
not only viii one and one-half millions
OF silver Republicans who voted for
him in 1896 reaffirm their allegiance to
the truth by casting their ballots for
him in 1900, but they will be accompa-
MED to the polls by one million more
Republicans to whom they will show
the way out of Egypt and into the
Promised Land.
Mr.. Towne and all the other Silver
Republican leaders have sacrificed too
much for this cause to allow their fidel-
ity TO be poisoned at this hour by per-
sonal ambition. The Democracy is
meeting US half way. We expect that
in 1900 there viii be by the heat of
events, an absolute fusion of the people
of the United States against the en-
tire power of autOcracy. corruption. in
timidatiOn and fraud; and that. if the
present feeling of the Democratic
masses in the United States. and the
masses outside of that party shall find
expression in the nominating cOnven-
tioas of 1900. Charles A. TOwne, as the
leader of the Silver Republicans of the
United States, Will be leading his fol-
lowers for William J. BRYAN"