The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-06


Ink was shed freely at the meeting
Of the state committee of the silver
Republicans" which was held yester
day in the headquarters of the orgari-
cation at room 223 Atlas block.
Readers viii note a change from In
dependent" Republicans 10 SILVER"
Republicans.
The committee had long meeting.
1t began at Il o'clock and lasted, with
an intermission for dinner, until ..
Then it adjourned, having adopted an
address, some resolutions. and letter
from Senator Cannon, which is hereto
attached.
There were several people present
In the flesh and in the spirit The lat
ter voted by proxy. The names of the
gentlemen who were there are as fol-
lows:
Beaver county, MIR. Kennedy, by
proxy; Box Elder, James Forrest, by
proxy: Cache, a. H. Love; Carbon,
w. II. Donaldson; Davis, H w.
Haight; Iron, Joshua H. Arthur, by
proxy; Juab, DR.. c. w. Clark, by
proxy; AillarC, T. c. Callister; Nor
gan. T. r. G. Welsh; Rich, Cornelius
Evans; Salt lake, Joseph Lippman;
John Lowry; Summit, Thomas Kearns,
by proxy: Tooele, c. r. Mcbride;
Uintah. r. a Collet, by proxy;
Wasatch, Joseph Hatch. by proxy;
Weber, A. B. Patton. Ben Rich of
Idaho was there as counsellor and
Major Littlefield acted as the repre-
sentative of James Forrest, of Box
E11da1. DaK-xr Gin plpr.lyad foT. the cpn1-
mittee.
Members from the counties not re-
presented sent in letters of regret
which were read at the opening of the
meeting, some of the same expressing
their views upon the situation.
FROM SENATOR CANNON.
The chairman of the committee then
presented the following letter from Sen
atOr Cannon, which was read and the
sentiments therein contained endorsed
by the members.
Washington March 80. 1898.
Hon Joseph Lppman, Chairman Inde-
pendent Republican Party, salt Lake
NV Dear Sir-The duty of silver Re-
publicans was never. more manifest than
now. Never before was the mission OF the
silver Republican movement of such
great magnitude. and never before was II
so clearly defined.
The silver Republicans are the real
guardians of the old Republican faith,
the eternal faith of the people, founded
in a determination to have righteous gov
eminent whose highest aim shall be to
secure the welfare of the masses and
the uplifting OF the generations of men
with the progress of the times. 1t Is
faith that has belonged TO many parties
and may now belong to many parties. II
has been known by various names. and
its advocates have had many political
designations. That the national Republi-
can party has Withdrawn from this faith
must certainly be evident to us all; and
whatever claims may be set up by other
organizations as to their possession and
advocacy Of the truth. the national Re
publican party is fOreclosed by all its
declarations and actions since June, 1885
from occupying any of this ground in
the estimation of those people who are
sincerely determined to secure bimetal-
Hsm and social reform The declaration
of the St. Louis convention in 1895 was
I'm reality for the establishment and per
petuation of the single gold standard in
our finances. All the phraseoosy of the
plank on the money question Which
seemed TO modify this purpose was but
a concession to secure votes and was not
intended by the controllers of that con-
venti5n to have any practical effect upon
any future action of the party. In
perfunctory way an apparent effort was
made to secure International agreement
through the services of a commission
which was sent abroad under the APP
pOintm ent of President Mckinley But II
was well known in Washington that the
eTOrI or the commission was 10 ne iaS
il undoubtedly has BEEN discounted and
discredited by the Gtterances of the sec
rotary OF the treasury. and by the lack
of cooperation of the ministers and am
bassadors of the United States and
Europe. Indeed. the very declaration Of
the platform fOredoOmeS the commission
TO failure; since the platform declared
for the maintenance of the existing gold
standard until change could be pro-
cured by International agreement. and II
is we'll known that an international
q for hir,1s.. al 1ierr no
cured with England as a party thereto
so long as we can be induced to MAIN
tain the single. gold standard supple
mentinE the unfair action of the admins
tTation toward its commission and u Yir~
tUal betrayal of that commission as vi
as treason TO the letter of the party plat
form. was the message of the president
of the United States sent to the special
session of congress Immediately preced-
ing its adjournment IN 1897. in which the
president promulgated his idea OF cur
cency reform. utterly at variance with
the American idea OF bimetallism and the
control of money by the government it
self. Following this. We have received
the unrebuked declaration of the secre-
tary Of the treasury. still one of the most
influential members of the presidents
cabinet. hat tx wGs- his purpose 10 more
thoroughly commit the United States to
the gold standard. And finally. we have
had a report from the chairman Of the
international commission practically
acknowledging failure. and concluding
with mis- Withdrawal from the commits
sion itself. Could any element b. intro
duced into any party record to make il
any worse than this2 1t would be an in
suit to the intelligence and the ccnVic- |
ton OF any man to ask him TO accept the
Republican party. as now led. as anything /
but the embodied opposition to bimetal- !
ism for the people of the United States /
Bimetallists having been forced by the I
action of the national Republican party to |
dismiss il from consideration except as
an enemy. the question naturally arises
as TO what course bimetallists of the
various political parties who have been
allied in the past shall pursue in the |
future 10 attain the greatly desired end !
A sufficient answer TO this should be the |
eously issued from Washington by the |
three chairmen of the Democratic, POpu- !
list and silver Republican parties. But as !
not all the reasons have bean given in |
these addresses for the action which they |
suggest. Il may be well to recount q brief |
history and to point out the logic there
Of The Populist party was the first ma |
tional organization to declare for the free |
and unlimited and Independent coinage |
of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 TO / !
TTpon this issue il had waged many bat |
Ties with varying successes: but its cause |
was advancing and its adherents and /
the growing mass of its sympathiZers be- |
gan to feel that il was destined 10 be /
in fact as in name, the Peoples party of |
the United States. In the winter of |
1Sg5-6 il was understood here by leading |
Democrats that the Cleveland wing of /
their party had captured the organiza- |
ton and that the convention of the DEM 1
acratic party soon TO be held would. in /
standard. Some of the most ardent DEM