The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-24
MR.. MoNDELL's SILVER RECORD

In Wyoming the silver issue is very
prominent, and there, as in
other states, the arch enemies of silver
of it are the Democrats.
The Republican nominee for repre-
sentative in congress is Frank w.
Mondell, and the way in which he is
arraigning silver is indeed a caution;
he is Out-Heroding Herod, and display
ing all the fanaticiSm of the new con-
vert. In his letter of acceptance, di-
rected to j. A. Van Orsdel, chairman
of the Republican state committee, Mr.
Mondell says:
Considering the sympathetic hearts
and impulses of the people of our state.
it is but natural that, in their views
and declarations upon the money ques-
ton, they should have been strongly
appealed to and impressed by the opin-
ions and arguments of the people of
surrounding commemorative uncon-
SclouSly influenced by considerations of
local mining interests-but the incon-
trovertible facts of current history, and
the irresistible logic of events, have
wrought considerable modification of
our opinions. An actual trial of the
Republican national convention has
demonstrated the strength and wisdom
or that policy as inSuring security from
the currency debasementS threatened
by the extreme and radical position as
sumed by the opposition-a position
which has been made altogether unten-
able by the fact that the So-called ar
guments made in its defense now stand
discredited by every price-list in the
land and refuted by the clear hard
facts of present conditions.
This is not a very rabid statement.
but it is a very strange one, coming
from the source it does. One might
think to read It, that Mr. Mondell had
ever been an out-and-out gold man,
but he has not. He was once an out
and-out silver man, and that but four
years ago. when he was the candidate
for congress of his party, and ran on a
platform that declared for the free.
unlimited and independent coinage of
silver
What has converted him to the doc
trine of the st. Louis platform? Is it
anything but party subserviency? In
1894 he was running on a free silver
platform and asking the SURFACES of
the people of Wyoming because of the
free silver promises of that platform.
He was portraying to them, and truth
fully too, the evil effects OF the discon-
tinuation of free coinage and the insti-
tuition of the gold standard The evil
effects he portrayed to the people four
years ago persist today. and will con-
time to persist.
Mr.. Mondell very glibly says that IAN
actual trial of the financial policy de-
clared by the last Republican national
convention. has demonstrated the
strength and wisdom of that policy as
insuring security from the currency
debasements threatened by the opposi-
wherein ''the. financial policy declared
by the last Republican national con-
vention' differs from the financial pol-
icy of the Republican party for the
last twenty-five years, the policy inau-
gurated in 1873, and which Mr.. Mon |
dell denounced so vigorously in 1894? |
Why did Mr.. Mondell advocate with |
might and main currency debasement" |
in 1894? He should explain this to the |
people of Wyoming.
BY his radical change of front on the
financial question, he has forfeited |
every claim to the confidence of the
people of Wyoming, as one qualified |
to be a leader on the most important |
questions now before them. His radi-
cal change of front shows that he lacks
either stability Of character or char
acter altogether. No such man should
be trusted. On the financial question
Frank w Mondell is a weather-cock,
one side of which is silvered, while the
other is gilded. Weather-cocks are not
wanted