The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-10
WITH WHOM THEY ASSOCIATE.

When the RepuDlIcanS OF titan, IN
convention assembled this year. tossed
the splintefed silver plank of 1896
/ across their present state platform. ii
was for the purpose of deceiving the
public and furnishing the Salt Lake
| Tribune preteXt for returning to the
goldbug organization. Any express
/ sion favorable to free coinage coming
I from an organization emphatically and
! irrevocably pledged against 1t, should
not be swallowed without salt. 1t is a
/ case of gold Greeks bearing silver
! gifts to the people of Utah.
/ Who is at the head of the Republican
! party in this state? Wesley K Wal
ton, an administration Republican, a
believer in the st. Louis platform, a
follower of Mark Hanna, an applicant
for a federal position a few months
/ ago. Doecs any one imagine that Wes-
ley K. Walton would act as chairman
of an organization really and truly OPP
posed to the single gold standard or
any other Republican policy? Mr.
Waltons application for the land of
flee was based upon his loyalty to the
national Republican party. No one
has ever questioned it. No one denies
it now.
Who are the leading spirits in the re-
united Republican party of this state?
Arthur Brown, whose vindication
amounts to a triumph over the So
called silver Republican" faction. Ar
thur Brown, who stayed with his party
seat in the senate; who remained in
the st. Louis convention when his Re
publican constituents threatened TO
mob him for doing so; who found frost
upon his return home, bur lived
through it to bask in the summer sun
shine of his party's approval.
Arthur L. Thomas, another admin
istratiGn Republican. who had his
choice of Titan plums. who supported
Mckinley il 1896, who endorses the St.
Louis platform today, and acknowl-
edges Mark Hanna as the head of the
Republican organization is another
beacon light of the Republican party
CT the state.
Dennis Eichnor, one of the most con-
sistent, honest and outspoken of all
the Republicans of the state, is chair
man of the county organization. Mr..
Eichnor was McKinleyite when they
were scarce in Utah. He made no
secret of it when others were beating
about the bush. He never faltered one
moment over the action of the ST.
Louis convention or wavered in his
any one imagine that Dennis Eichnor
would work for silver against the
pledges of his party or the policies of
the president?
George A. Smith is another active
Republican in this campaign. With ex-
Governor Thomas he signed the call
for Republicans to make up and get
together as regular members of the
party without a prefix, or purpose
other than TO down the Democrats, if
possible, in the interest of the goldbug
party.
The Republican county tickets
throughout the state are made up of
Mckinley men with a few supposed
exceptions The Republican state
ticket is straight Mckinley. Judge
Zane was anti-Bryan, and so was Alma
Eldredge The latter used to close his
orders for merchandise, in 1896. in sub
stance as follows:
IF Mckinley is elected ship the
above order to me, but if Bryan is
elected don't send me any goods at
ALL"
He did this, partly through partisan
bigotry, partly to display his animosity |
towards Bryan, and partly because he I
believed what Hanna said about free
meaning RUN TO the country"
These are the leaders of the Repub- |
lican party in Utah. If men may be |
known by their associates and leaders |
there is every reason to believe that the
of Utah have lost all in
terest in bimetailism and that they |
have gone over without reserve to the /
single gold standard party.