The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-11

4 IN American politics until il is accom-
plished by national legislation.
We recognize the matchlesS leader
ship of the patriotic and illustrious
citizen, William Jennings Bryan, and
to his wise and far-seeing statesman
ship we pledge our continued and I'M
wavering fidelity.
The Democratic party hereby ap-
proves of the recent war with Spain
and justly shares in the glories of its
results. We favor the independence of
Cuba and the retention by this govern
ment of the other Spanish Indian pos
sessions and the control of all other
Spanish territory taken by the Ameri-
can forces in the war just closed.
TELLER PLATFORM.
The silver Republican convention, by
rising vote, ratified the nomination
made by the Democrats.
The platform adopted demands that
the minis of the United States be open
TO the coinage of both silver and gold
at the old ratio of 16 to /, without ask
ing or awaiting the aid or consent of
any other nation. The money plank
further says: ITO enforce the gold
standard throughout the world is inn
possible. The present condition is in
tolerable. The silver Republican party
and its allies believe that the issue thus
presented is the most important in
American politics, and calls for settle
ment before all others.
we arraign the gold standard Re
publican party for its attempted de-
ception of the American people by false
rTetenses in favor of an international
aSreement for the free coinage of sill
yer while actively engaged in further
ing the designs of the gold monopoly
and the bankers trust; and we con-
graduate the American people that in
the present attitude of the administra
ton and in the declarations of the
leading Republican state conventions
of this year. the nation has at least a
frank avowal by that party of its alb
solute surrender to the gold standard
system.
In the state of Colorado an especial
effort has been made to cloak and dis
guise the designs of the supporters OF
the gold standard. The history of these
times is a woeful chapter in the liter
allure of political discrimination. 1t has
within the last few days reached its APP
propriate and inevitable elimination in
an act which has disgraced the state
and may well appal the citizenship of
the country. The advocates of the gold
standard in Colorado have attempted
the theft of a whole political party.
We believe that the continued exist
ence of the silver Republican organiza-
ton in this state and in the nation is
for the present necessary to the adj
Vancement of the great cause, and we
declare our continued fidelity to that
organization and our undiminished con-
hdence in our great leader, Senator
Henry NJ. Teller.
The platform declares that the at
tempt manifested in some quarters to
claim the results of the war as the
property of a certain political party in
this country is not creditable OF the
patriotism of those who make it, and
continues:
we declare our belief in the mission
of the people of the United States as
the evangel of liberty and self-govern-
ment to the nations of the world, and
IN their ability to discharge ali of the
responsibilities which the fortunes of
war have thrust upon them. Wher-
ever the flag waves it shall be a symbol
OF civil freedom, and to- all men who
gaze upon its folds a guaranty of the
inalienable rights of the life liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. We send
greeting to our Colorado boys, and
commend them for their brave and
gallant conduct in the storming of Ma
Mia and the performance of the other
duties of the soldier"
Thanks were given the chairman of
the national committee of the silver
Republican party for the righteous, di-
rect and forceful manner in which he
discharged the responsibilities OF his
high office in removing Richard Broad
from the Craftsmanship of the state.