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

/ nation Is or more Importance TO the
cause of the people than the gratifica-
! ton of the individual ambition of any
candidate.
Resolved, That with a unification of
| the silver forces of Utah we demand
that for all national, county and pre-
cinct offices only such men shall be
named as are known to be tried and
| trusted silver men.
Resolved. That committee of three
be appointed to be known as commit
tee of unification.
Resolved, That said unification COM
mittee be, and it is hereby instructed,
to communicate with the respective
chairmen of the Democratic and Popu-
list parties of Utah, with a view of
bringing about a unification of the sill
yer forces in this state for the cam
paign of 1898. the plans and details of
such unification. so far as the silver
Republican party is concerned, to be
left entirely to said unification COM
mittee."
No time was lost in the discussion of
the same, which was adopted without
dissenting voice. The committee, en-
couraged by this action on the part of
the main body, then presented the fol-
lowing address:
THE ADDRESS.
To the Men and Women of Utah:
The Utah state central committee of
the silver Republican party of the
United States most respectfully urges
upon your consideration the following
statement:
The people of the United States are
making preparation for the political
battle of 1898, which is only a prepara-
ton for the greater battle ofe1900
Whatever policy, partisanship or prin-
ciple may be advanced by political
leaders for the consideration of the vot-
erS of the United States, this fact must
be apparent-that the real contest. so
far as the people are concerned and so
far as their rights are involved, Will be
upon the money issue and that where
soever and whatsoever, until this fight
shall be won, any DETECTING question
shall be interposed, it will not be of the
people for the people. AS in 1896, the
opponents of just financial policy in
the United States sought by every
means known to their power and inge-
nuity to pervert the contest by the
raising of other question. so they will
in 1898 and 1900 devote themselves to an
observation of the one great vital ques
ton and to a destruction of the method
by which the people may win a neces-
Sary victory. We hold that the high
est political duty of the people of the
United States is to secure an honest
money system to the end that their sa-
cred institutions of liberty may be pre-
served. and that social justice may OBJ
tain among mankind. 1t is proper. be-
cause it is necessary, that other re-
forms should attend upon this: for it
is imperative that with it should be i'm
mediately established a regulation of
the vast combines which have secured
command of the existing money of the
country, and which now wrongfully
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lie utilities of the nation. We believe
that this paramount demand of an
aroused people will not be stilled by the
proposal of other policies. We believe
that they will not allow the method
by which they can secure their rights
to be destroyed by the minor consider
ations of personal or partisan ambi-
ton.
We are for bimetallism-the free. I'M
limited and independent coinage of sill
yer and gold at the ratio of is to l. We
are for this by the only method under
which it can be secured for the people
of the United States-the cooperation
of all the forces which believe in BIZ
metallism. We take as our foundation
the declarations of the three chairmen
of the Democratic party, Populist party
and silver Republican party of the
United States. and the declarations of
William j. Bryan and the other nation
al leaders of this cause. We invoke the
cooperation in this year 1898 of all the
silver Republicans OF Utah with the BIZ
metallists of the Democratic and Pop
ulist parties of this state. to the end
that political harmony may be estab-
lished among the believers in this great
faith, and to the end that we may wage
war only upon those who oppose bimet-
allism.
We point to the fact that the national
Republican party of the United States
has abandoned the cause of bimetal-
lism. and that local adherence to the
national Republican organiza ton is
utilization with gold monometallism and
oppression of the people. We point to
the further fact that the advocates of
the silver gold standard for the United
States, no matter what their former
party name, are amalgamating to pre-
sent a solid front against the bimetai-
lists, and that their purpose, after Sc
curing their own union, is to secure the
disunion and the consequent annihila-
ton of the bimetallic forces.
We call the attention of the voters
of Utah to the fact that no one party
in the bimetallic alliance of the United
States is strong enough of itself to
win a victory in 1900. and that politi-
cal conditions and the formative work
yet to be done precludes any one party
that it can draw into its own organi-
zation enough strength from any and
all other sources to Justify it in max
ing a fight without cooperation and
alliance. To make such cooperation
is the work Of patriotism. The ordin-
airy difficulties which confront alliance
are multiplied and magnified by the
fact that our opponents-controllin
the majority of the avenues of public
information-are laboring with malig-
nant ability to spread dissension
among bimetallsts. II the Democratic
party should stand alone and separate
for this issue, the press of the great
middle western states, where co-opera-
ton is vital to local as il is to ma
tional success, would be sufficiently in
huential among the voters, by repre-
sentation and misrepresentation, to
keep away from such Democratic
party the votes which are necessary TO
insure success. This is true of the
Populist party. 1t would be equally
true of the silver Republican party, if
it were making an independent effort
to carry this great movement. Union
means success; division means failure
Therefore all the forces which the gold
standard power can bring to bear,
openly and secretly, are operating
against this cooperation OF bimetal-
lists. And for many specious reasons
even bimetallists themselves. in a few
localities, have been led to believe that
cooperation was unnecessary and I'M
desirable. Most important among
these false reasons has been the IN
just teaching that party is dearer than
principle, that the great reform may
safely be made an incident of partisan
ship and personal ambition. and that
old differences and individual hatreds
in politics must be nursed even at the
firmly believe that the vast majority
of bimetallists IN the United STATES