The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-16

seat of Mr. Roberts? The sympathies of
Eidredge are with Roberts. Eldredge does
not condemn Roberts. Assuming the
charges against Roberts to be true and
I Eldredge will say to you that there is
nothing in them to disqualify Roberts
from holding public office; is 1t any worse
4 TO vote for man who does an act than
/ for the man who believes that the act
was right? Is it any better 10 endorse a
supporter of a thing than it is to sustain
| the man who does the thing? And, as to
Foster. he has polygamists on mis- own
i ticket, so l am told, whom he does not
condemn, and his crusade, if ne makes
! one. VIII never go beyond the committee
room. He will never make the attempt
/ unless it be for an advertisement, and
congress will soon see through that
| scheme.
THE MAIN QUESTION.
In the meantime we viii force the fight
| upon the lines laid down by the Chicago
platform. We will refuse to be driven
| into the brush by any kind of guerilla
warfare. The main question cannot be
and will not be obscured. Granting all
that is urged against Mr.. ~oberts to be
true, and yet every man ar . woman who
believes IN the cause of silver; every man
and woman who hopes to see Bryan nom
mated for president in 1850; every one
VINO opposes a government by injunction
and who believes that capital as well as
honest toll should be taxed 10 support the
I government should vote for 3. II. Rob
erts. First of all, Mr.. Eldredge hje prin-
clpal opponent is not as we'll equipped
10 represent Utah in congress. What
would he have to say for silver when
financial debate is on? He says now, in
| his speeches upon the stump. that as
every one in Utah faVors silver, therefore
he will not discuss that question. For
the same reason, after entering the Re
publican caucus and finding the sentl
ment unanimous for the gold standard, he
would probably remark that as every one
favored the gold standard, ii would not
be wise to agltate the financial question.
If | am rightly informed, Mr.. Eldredge
belongs with the gold men and is SUP
porter of the st. Louis platform. | am
informed that he was a staunch supporter
OF Mckinley and that he voted for him,
and thus endorsed the straight Republi-
can doctrine. How can silver man
vote for him if he be conscientious and
sincere? The financial question is
moral question. The gold standard in
creases crime, produces suicides and
man be turned from Roberts, even though
all that is said be true, and be induced
TO cast his vote for Eldredge? The Re
publican candidate is a strict party alan.
He will enter the Republican caucus.
That caucus will declare for Reed for
speaker of the house. and if Eldredge is
elected, the vote of Utah will be cast for
the Republican cZar. With Reed in the
Speakers chair there is no hope for BIZ
metallism. With Reed in the speakers
chair the trusts and mOnOpolies and allied
hosts of Mammon will own the capitol.
Suppose all that is said of Roberts be
true; he will vote for silver; he will speak
for silver and he will bolt from the
Democratic caucus if by any chance the
ourselves. to our children, to the cause
of humanity to keep Utah in line. All
other questions are dwarfed before the
great issue which affects the rights of
man. If you vote against Roberts. you
vote against your own interests. Be not
afraid of the cry of wolf, wolf" when
there is no wolf, and decline to be stam-
peded by those whose motto is, ANY
thing to beat the Democrats
REPUBLICAN SCHEME.
By voting for Eldredge you cast a vote
in favor of the Republican scheme of
finance which, if carried into effect, will
make more heavy the burdens now rest
ing upon the people.
Judge Powers then dwelt at considerable
length upon the Republican plan of cur
rency reform, designed to more firmly
fasten the gold standard upon the coun-
try. He continued:
1 cannot believe that the scheme meets
with the approval of the people of Utah.
The device of 16 to l painted on the Re
publican banner underneath the motto of
Anything to beat the Democrats, will
hardly blind the eyes of men who believe
with me that in the reconciliation of
silver at the ratio of Is to l, without |
awaiting the action or consent of any |
other nation, there is the true rhmedy for !
our financial ills. But, it is urged that |
the Democratic party is not q silver party !
and cannot be trusted to work out the re- |
form. If it cannot be trusted, what party |
can be trusted, and in what direction can |
bmetallistS turn for relief? Surely we /
would receive cold comfort from Mark /
Hanna and Mckinley, and I doubt very /
much whether Eldredge is the intellectual /
Goliath who can lift Us out of the nlire. !
We are told that We would never have |
declared for silver at Chicago if certain /
Republican senators had not defed the /
party lash and certain distinguished gen |
tlemen had not walked out of the st. 1
Louis convention. We saw one of those !
gentlemen turned down in the Republican |
state convention of Utah, and Mr.. Ell !
dredge, a warm supporter of the admins
tration and its policies. lifted up in his
stead. which shows that the true silver
Republicans can hope for but little recOg-
milton in a Republican convention.
Judge Powers then took up the charge
that it was the action of the boiling Re
publicans at st. Louis that influenced the
Democratic national convention to de-
clare for silver and showed that the sill
yer movement was started within the
Democratic party as early as the spring
of 1888. and that the gold forces We're
routed in Democratic state conventions
before the st. Louis convention was held.
AS TO THE TARIFF.
But, say the Republicans, the one burn
ing issue to be discussed is the tariff,
provided there is thrown in little reel
procity on the side. For my own part,
am not a free trader and the Democratic
party is not a free trade party. The
Democratic position on the tariff is made
quite clear by the Chicago platform, and
l
Any law which builds w classes and
unjustly discriminates between sections
IS radically wrong. 1t was for this reason
that the Democrats of the west did not
favor the Cleveland idea of free raw
and a tariff on the manufactured
articles. Therefore, just prior to the
Democratic national convention at Chi
cago in 1896, the delegates to that con-
vention from Utah met at the Knutsford
hotel and after a thorough interchange
Of views, and an agreement upon the prin-
which thew should under
lie our tariff laws. Senator Rawlins was
appointed, and accepted the task. of form
Ilating the views of the delegates into
/ terse statement, which he afterwards
became a part of the Chicago platform,
and it is today the statement of Demo-
cratic faith upon the tariff question. The
plank as prepared by Senator Rawlins
reads as follows:
I'VE hold that tariff duties should be
evied for purposes of revenue, such duties
throughout the country, and not discrim-
nate between class or section
With nearly one thiuSand millions of
dollars to be annually raised by tariff
schedule which is properly prepared will
furnish all the protection that any in
iustry in America can reasonably ask for.
We believe that if there be any benefits
o flow from a tariff, that the lead miners
md the wool growers and the interests
# the Rocky mountain region, shall share
n the beneht, and that II shall not all be
bestowed upon the manufacturers of the
asst.
Until the financial question is settled.
democracy does not favor any change in
he tariff laws other than be necessary for
he actual needs of the government.
Therefore. for the life of me, L cannot
Understand why men should be willing
o spend their time contemplating the - I
eyed beauties of protective tariff when
here is a crying need for financial re- |
orm. At the same time | defy the Re !