The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-07
REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR GOLD

The Republican party is the gold
party and the Democratic party is the
silver party.
National platforms determine what
the attitude of the national party is
on any and all national questions.
The Republican national platform de-
clares in favor of the maintenance of
the existing gold standard and against
the free and Independent coinage of
silver.
Ex-senator Edmunds, one of the
most distinguished Republicans in the
country, speaking on the money ques-
ton, says:
The safety of the nation and the
maintenance of our national honor de-
mand the election Of a sound-money
house. 1t is plain from the declaration
of the Democratic leaders that they
still regard the money question as the
principal issue between the two par
ties. The election of a Democratic
house would mean the immediate pas
sage of a. bill providing for the double
standard. Such calamity would be
worse than the var with Spain or the
yellow fever epidemic among our
troops.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, one
of the most distinguished and infuen-
tial Republicans in the land, speaking
on the silver question, says:
It (the Democratic parity has, in
Massachusetts, the courage of it's opin-
ion. 1t announces in it's platform that
it adhered to the principles of the Chi
cago platform, and every congressman
running on the Democratic ticket in
my state is avowed and outspoken for
free silver. "a voice: Three cheers
for BryanrO Now, that is a real Dem
ocratic leader. (Laughter.) There is a
perfect illustration of it. They don't
mean honest money. They mean free
silver, and every honest Democrat, like
my friend at the back of the hall who
has just shouted, is for Bryan, and the
Democrats of Massachusetts have
openly announced that free silver is
their platform. 1t is all wrong, but
| they are not timid and skulking and
sneaking. They are not going about
/ in my state and saying that they will
not tell on which side they are on for
fear they may ALLEVIATE some voter. l
do not know how that attitude is GO
ing to take in this state, but the eff
| feet in my state would be to leave
man who uttered that principle with
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ter and cheers.) Now, what does it
mean? The Democrats in this state
have said nothing. But we know they
are for free silver. If the next house
| is Democratic house they will pass
! a free silver bill and every congress-
man on the Democratic ticket, whether
| they said or not beforehand what they
were going to do, is going to vote for
| free silver, because it is the Democrat tic
! doctrine. But if they pass a free silver
! bill it cannot become law. 1t probably
cannot get through the senate, be-
cause we are going to have a Repub-
lican senate; but if it did get through
the senate it could never get by the
White House.
These men speak as those having
authority. What they say on the silver
! question meets with the APPROVAL of the
Republican party everywhere through
out the country, while the shifting, in
sincere protestation of the Republican
party in Utah commands no respect OF
consideration anywhere, not even in
Utah.
The Republican party is for gold. Its
national platform says SO; it's national
leaders say so; its record in congress
for the past twenty-five years says so