The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-28
Republicans Have Revived Their Old
Policy Again.
GOLDBUGS TO THE FORE
CLAIM TO BE GUST AS GOOD
SILVER MEN AS ANY,
Hanna's Letter Intended For East
ern Consumption and to Give the
Mountain States Republicans
Chance to Seemingly Defy the
Great Party Boss-The Utah Game
Washington Office of The Herald,
1415 G Street, N. w. !


1415 G Street, N. w. J
Washington, D. c., Aug. 24-The Re
, publican congressional committee has
already reached the claim everything
stage of the campaign Generally indi-
cative of great and growing fear. The
officials of the committee issue inter
views daily in which they assert that
everything is going Republican. 1t is
however, we'll known that the Repub-
lican cause is SO desperate that the
managers have practically abandoned
hope of escaping serious loss in the
eastern states or doing more than to
hold their own in the middle west. They
are looking in a very singular direction
for gains. They actually expect them
! in Kansas, in Nebraska and in the
Dakotas. More particularly do they
anticipate gains in the Rocky Noun
tani states, Washington and Califor-
mia. The certainty of heavy losses in
the east has rendered the managers
rather desperate. This fact accounts
! for the remarkable energy the gold
Republicans are showing in the noun
| tain states. The federal Office holders
have been vigorously prodded, and
urged to produce some of the results
]
| Kinley bosses who have been given the
| distribution of the offices.
First in Importance the Republican
/ managers class Wyoming. Here they
/ hope to return the easy dodger clerk to
the senate and to defeat Arnold for
congress. Next in consequence, as fig
ured by the politicians, is Colorado.
Here the pet of the administration,
Senator Wolcott, has a chance in the
pot. 1t is no secret that the. orders
to the federal officers of Colorado are
to sacrifice everything to get men NOM
I mated as hold-over senators who can
be depended upon at the right time to
see a great yellow light" and vote for
WOlcott. 1t is well known that this
Wolcott propaganda has the active
support of d. H. Moffatt. who was a
great silver Republican leader in 1885,
1t is also asserted that another well
know bland and breezy silver Repub-
lican has a card or two up his sleeve
that he will play to the advantage of
the Mckinley people at the right mo-
ment. This report may do the gentle
man an injustice in fact, but there is
not a shadow of a doubt that the Re-
puolicans here have been whispering
among themselves for some time that
ne can be relied upon to help in an
emergency. There are some of the same
kind in Utah.
In the ledger in which the secretary
of the Republican congressional COM
mittee keeps tab on congressional dis
tricts, the first Colorado Cor Denver)
district, is marked as hopeful" This
is on the supposition that there may
be a collapse of all fusion. The sec
ond district is given up as hopeless.
In all the mountain, states the gold
Republicans are putting forward the
claim that they are lust as good" /
f..i1 IA e civ or, hi
drugstore assertion does not seem to |
jibe very we'll with the letters which |
have been dispatched by Mark Hanna |
to his agents in this section. These !
demanded that all the platforms of the |
Republican party in the several noun |
tain states should stand up for the sin
gle gold standard. These letters were |
of the class confidential, but for inn
mediate publication" and obviously in
tended to give the mountain state gold
Republicans a chance to pretend to
defy the great boss. AS a matter of
fact Hanna does not care anything
about the platforms in these states, but
he cares a great deal about the sue
cess of any Subservient candidate who
may happen to be nominated upon
them.
IN Wyoming the Republicans have
adopted dense goloid platforms, keep
ing the party strictly in line with 1896;
in Idaho there is a pale yellow imita-
ton of the same But in Colorado,
Utah and Montana, unless the Repub-
ican managers fail in their plans, the
gold Republican party will have the
assurance to make bold bid for votes
rs friend of silver" The particular
purpose of this course is to decOy the
silver Republicans. 1t is not the plan,
IS outlined here, to do more than to
endorse silver Republican candidates
whenever they can be depended
ipon." The great hope of the mana
sers is that their scheming may result
II the election OF legislatures in Mon
ana and Utah and hold-Over senators
or Wolcott in Colorado In Idaho they
ire wise, and expect nothing except a ,
possible chance that the gold Repub-
lean candidate for congress may win
there are four independent nominal
ions. II
In Utah the gold Republicans are
laying a keen game under instruc-
ions. 1t is to try and fool the silver
republicans with a silver declaration. :
he managers are depending on Post !
master Thomas (and Editor Lannan- !
n the side) to bring the matter about (
ess at it. for Secretary Overstreet of +
he Republican congressional commit f
ee, admits in an interview this week
hat Utah seems TO be welded to her ?
liver idols :
Over at Democratic headquarters r
veryOne is looking to Utah with Sc
enc confidence. They know that the y
ew state will send to the new congress r
straight Democratic senator, and
i've him Democratic colleague in the
ouse.