The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26

The Tribune of yesterday morning


The Tribune of yesterday morning
said:
The Herald returns to the silver
silent" platform business, and charges
that we claim it was the platform of
1884 instead of 1892. We made no such
claim. made no reference to the plat
forms of 1884 whatever. We distinctly
stated that it was the platform OF
1888, and the reference to 1892 was an
inadvertence merely, the same as we
presume The Herald's misquotation of
1884 for 1888 was yesterday.
Did not our contemporary make any
reference to the platform of 1884? Tues
day morning it said:
We said on Sunday: Utah Repub-
licans were for silver when the Utah
Democrats were supporting Cleveland,
the goldite, on a silver-silent plat
form" Upon that the Herald charges
US with failing memory, growing
contempt for the intelligence of Its
readers and finally that while we
might have told .neater" or ''clumsier
falsehoods we never told bigger
one" Let US see. Mr.. Cleveland was
elected in 1884.
Now as to The Heralds misquota-
ton. Wednesday The Herald said:
The Democratic platform of 1884 or
of 1888, was not and could not have
been meant when the Tribune talked
about the Utah Democrats support
ing Cleveland, the goldite, on sill
ver-silent platform.
To show that it did not have any
platform in mind but that of 1892 we
quoted this from our contemporary of
August Is:
The people have dropped upon the
fact that the men in control of the De-
mocracy of Utah are mere place-hunt-
ers. and that IF THE DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM OF 1900 DOES NOT ANY
MORE MENTION SILVER THAN
DID THEIR PLATFORM OF 1892,
they viii be just as good Demo-
Gratis the morning after the convention
as they now are, and will be just as
earnest in their labors to convince the
people that theirs is the only accepted
faith.
In its issue of Sunday last it said:
The Herald. speaking of our refer
ence to its support of the goldite Cleve-
land in 1892, says the Republican can
didate was las much of q goldbug as
Cleveland was" This, besides being
inaccurate as a matter of fact, ignores
the platforms of the two parties, for
whereas Harrison was running an a
distinctively bimetallic platform,
Cleveland succeeded in suppressing all
mention of silver in the Democratic
national platform. That made all the
difference in the world. and that lead
ing fact is what covers the Democratic
position in Utah with confusion.
Is this reference of Sunday last to
the Democratic platform another in
advertence?"
Our contemporary cannot get away
from the record in the case, and that
record makes it only too plain that it
had the Democratic platform of 1892
in mind when it spoke of the Silver
silent platform" Trying to get away
from that record is nothing but petit
Jogging.
The Herald in it's article of Tuesday
said that las a political organization
the Democrats of Utah could not have
been supporting Mr.. Cleveland in 1884
on a silver-silent platform for the good
and sufficient reason that that was
several years before the division move
ment on party lines, from which dates
national politics in Utah" Our con-
temporary says that is a frightful
break. that the national organizations
were kept up here from the early
seventies. There is no break, frightful
or other, about our statement There
was no politics in Utah, in the ma
tionaI sense, in 1884 or 1888: at that
time the people were divided into
Liberals and Peoples party. The editor
of the Tribune once ran for delegate
to congress, but it was as Liberal and
not as a Republican. In the national
sense of politics, whom was he support
ing?
We haven't the least doubt in the
world that the editor and manager of
our morning contemporary supported
Lincoln or Grant on "a "silver-silent''
platform; but what has that to do
with the Tribune's fusion with Nc
Kinley Republicans now?
What is the matter with the Re-
publican organ anyhow? 1t is trying
to show that it meant 1884 instead of
1888, or vice versa, when it said neither.
1t repeatedly referred to the Dem
ocratic national platform of 1892 as a
''silver-silent" platform, and a glance
at the Tribune files during the past
two weeks will prove that The Herald
is right.