The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-11
WILL BE A BLOW 70 SILVER.


The Herald crawls out of its cellar
TO remark that the defeat of the Dem
ocratic party in this state this year
VIII be a blow to silver. Bah What
has the Democratic party of Utah ever
done for silver? What anxiety, even,
has it ever evinced for silver? What
sacrifice has it ever offered for silver?
Who knows how long it will even pre-
tend to favor silver?-Tribune.
1T wouldn't be a bad idea for our
neighbor to crawl out of its dungeon of
intolerance and into the sunshine of
reason once in a while The exercise
would do it good and the sight would
be revelation. AS a matter of fact
the Republican organ knows that the
success. in Utah. of party that en-
dorses every policy put forth by Nc
kinley, would really be a blow to sill
yer. Every other Republican organ in
the country knows it and frankly ac-
knowledges it. The election, in 1898. of
one of McKinley's supporters of 1896
would be a blow to silver, and every
goldbug in the United States would re-
joiee over such a contamination Re-
publican triumph in Utah means an
other McKinleyite in the house, and the
election of a Republican legislature
means the election OF another Arthur
Brown to the senate.
| Our badly demoralized contemporary
asks what the Democrats of Utah have
done for silver. They have favored
free coinage from the beginning They
| labored year after year for positive
declaration for silver in the national
platform because the party had never
declared against it. They began with
the beginning in Utah, .Arched Shout
der to shoulder with Republicans in
the crusade for silver, and they are
still marching and working and con-
tributing for the cause. while Republic
ans, as body, have dropped out of the
ranks to join the opposition.
What have Democrats done for sill
yer? They have been constant to it,
They are still faithful. No member of
the present Republican organization in
Utah can say as much. The Democrats
of Utah repudiated Cleveland, and they
still disown him. Republicans repudi-
ated Mckinley, but today they endorse
him, his administration and all his poll
cies. The Democrats of Utah have re-
fused to place a Palmer and Buckner
man on any ticket, state or county
Thus they have shown their dsap-
prevail of goldbugs. The Republicans
of Utah have made up their state and
county tickets chiefly of Mckinley and
Hobart men. Thus they show their
colors.
What sacrifice have the Democrats of
Utah ever made for silver? Let us
see. The Republican organ for years
maintained that Grover Cleveland was
the god of Democracy" and that Hill
and Whitney were its idols. Well the
Democrats of Utah united with others
in destroying that god and in breaking
those idols. Whoever heard of Utah Re- ]
publicans doing anything of the kind? |
Two years ago many of them turned |
their backs on Hanna and voted |
against Mckinley and his policies. This /
year finds them back in Hanna's or |
ganization, approving Mckinley and |
his measures. These are the men who /
ask what the Democrats have done for |
silver. What have they themselves |
done? What are they doing now?
who knows how long it (Utah Dem
ocracy) will even pretend TO favor sill |
ver?" asks the Republican organ. That |
is an unwarranted insinuation which
only goldbug of the bigot class is in
the habit of throwing out. No honest, |
real friend of silver seeks to discredit
the good intentions of those who are
working for silver 1t would be safe,
however, TO wager that the Democrats
of Utah will favor silver longer than
Utah Republicans have stuck to it,
They have done this much already But
whenever The Herald returns to Cleve-
land and gold, as the Tribune and its
party have returned to Mckinley and
gold, there will be justification for the
Tribune's insinuations.