The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-17
THE SPIDER AND THE FLY.

There is a shrewd game of politics
being played in Utah by administration
Republicans
1t IS a game of "heads I win, tails
you lose" They are perfectly willing
to say nothing about the silver cues
ton, in order to avoid giving offense
They will even go further to effect a
Republican reconciliation, and de-
clare for that absurd international
scheme which has been denounced as a
fraud by the leading goldbugs of the
country, and exposed as "a fake by So
called silver Republicans.
Efforts will be made TO have a plat
fern built of hope and promise, one
element to make the promise plank,
and the other to furnish the hone of
its fulnllment. That letter addressed
by Chairman Dolly TO the Republicans
of Utah is an indication of the COM
promise to be proposed. 1t is quoted
by administration organs to show that
President Mckinley and the Republican
party, in spite of their repeated de-
clarations to the contrary, are frie>ds
of silver anyhow. The part quoted for
this purpose is as follows:
The failure to secure international
action favorable to silver is deplor-
able, but no honest man doubts that
President Mckinley, by appointing
three friends of silver as commissioners
to represent our government in the
presentation of this important question
to the leading nations, acted in good
faith and with an earnest desire TO
promote the interests of silver. The
Republicans of Utah are friends of sill
yer. and of free silver coinage, and
should they be successful at the COM
ing election. will elect a congressman
] and senator favorable to our silver in
! terests, also for protection of Utah's
vital interests.
That is a gang plank, as it were, TO
enable "silver Republicans" to walk
aboard the goldhug ship. And 1t is
confidently believed by a number of the
| leading single standard Republicans of
/ the state that those who were turned
away in 1896 by the St. Louis platform
will gradually work their way q ok.
and make one excuse or another for re-
joining the party of gold and protective
tariff.
| 1t is by no means certain, however,
/ that intelligent, earnest advocates of
free coinage can be cajoled by the
promises of avowed enemies of silver,
or touched by the mournful statement
of a well known goldite that the fail
are to secure international action IA
vcrable to silver is deDlo:abIe."
/ OF course it is deDlorable, but the
failure was not unexpected. No one
thought the outcome would amount TO
anything. President Mckinley ap-
pointed those commissioners under a
law approved by President Cleveland.
Some partisans will be recaDtured,
though. and taken back into the Hanna
camp. New issues will serve as an eX-
cuse for some, local prestige by others,
and counsel" by few. perhaps.
The Bingham Bulletin shows on what
basis a partial reconciliation may be
effected. as follows:
AS there are no more plums to be had,
the straights of Utah should get a
move on and enter the love feast of
/ the Pops and silver Republicans. While
all might not be forgiven and for
gotten, it is the only way to down the
Democrats this fan
The Ogden State Journal, a. SILVER
Republican" paper, recognizing the ef-
forts of the administration people 20
cover UP the silver question, that the
''prodigals'' may return. it says.
The Republican leaders throughout
the nation are scheming in every pos
sible manned to divert the minds OF the
people from bimetallism as the para
mount issue. in the hope of being abe
10 weaken the strength of the cause in
its western stronGholds and increase
the goldbug strength in the United
States senate. The Republican man-
ayers will not - able to change the is
sue unless aidsd and abetted by pro-
fessed bimetallists Unless leading sill
yer Republicans like Mantle shall fall
down and worshio ct the shrine If
Hanna the main issue this year will be
the same as it was in 1896. We do not
believe that any important number ct
silver Republicans can be induced 10
cooperate with the hosts Of Hanna
! this year in the attempt to releSate the
silver question to the rear
That the same game is being played
in other states. is evidenced by the fol-
lowing from the Moscow idaho stand
ard:
Chairman Morrison, of the Mckinley
Republican state central committee, is
said 10 have sent out a circular letter
10 the chairmen Of the several cou2ty
committees, advising them to be very