The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-10

The sons OF Utah are making politi-
cal history at high pressure rate
these days. 1t has not been many
months since Senator Frank ]. Cannon,
the late ideal of the high tariff extrem-
lists, declared upon the door of the
United States senate that the Republic
an tariff robbed the people. And now
the Hon. Charles Crane boldly charges
that the people of the west and the vet
eran soldiers of the whole country have
been sold out and betrayed by the Nc
Kinley administration and the Repub-
lican party.
Mr.. Crane was one of the founders of
the Republican party of Utah; was
state chairman of the party during
three memorable campaigns; at one
time had the gUbernatOrial nomination
within his grasp; has a brilliant war
record; was twice wounded and has
never asked for a pension. and his
opinions have always carried weight
with his party and his comrades. Dur
ing the presidential campaign he was
an ardent Mckinleyite, urged the old
soldier and all others to support the
Republican ticket and himself Travelled
long distance in order to cast his bal
lot for the major. Now. he announces,
he is no longer a Republican. lie feels
that all old soldiers and the people
have been deceived and betrayed and
urges al veterans and good citizens to
unite and huri from power the whole
McKirley-Hanna goldbug combination.
He viii not for the present, he says.
identify himself with any other party,
but viii be a free lance" in politics.
URGED TO TAKE THE LEADER
SHIP.
Mr.. Crane defined his attitude. as ex-
pressed above. to a Herald reporter.
who called upon him to ascertain the
truth OF the report that he had been
urged by his old party associates to
again take the reins of leadership. He
did not deny that ne had been ap-
preached by many prominent Repub-
leans and urged to resume the party
leadership, but TO all these appeals he
had turned a deaf ear.
L told them, he said. that l could
not and wouId not advocate politi-
cal policy that had closed half the
mines of my state. thrown thousands
of people out of employment, reduced
the. Yalne of every production of labor,
decreased the value Of real estate 80
per cent; covered the state with tramps
and brought restitution and WANT TO
thousands of honest, worthy families.
be sides. l am absolutely and diamet-
really opposed to its financial policy. l
stand where l believed the party stood
in the campaign. for the remonetiza-
ton of silver. In all the campaigns in
Utah, l have talked and advocated the
reconciliation of silver, l have quoted
the national Republican platforms. l
have quoted McKinleys speeches,
have read To them the resolutions OF
the Ohio Republican state convention,
of which President Mckinley Mas a
member. which declared that the
hondS IF tbe onr-,ar.r1r KVar,e no W bia
in greenbacks,' l have quoted the ut
terances of John Sherman, who de-
clarCd. the bondholders should be paid
in the money he purchased his bonds
with and the utterances of Major
now President Mckinley. when he went
about the country holding aloft a sill
Yer dollar and declaring il 10 be good !
enough for him, good enough for the +.
farmer and the workingman, good (
enough for the soldier and ought 10 be /
good enough Tor the bondhOlder.
BELIEVED IN MKINLEY.
In ogden, when / placed that old /
war horse of our party, John E. Booth, (
in nomination tor congress, ! was /
Kissed. when l mentioned McKinley's
name l believed Mckinley would full
ill every expectation, and l never
in my devotion to him. until /
his secretary of the treasury said, the
objects l have III mind in the series OF
provisions offered by me are four-to
commit the country more thoroughly to
The gold standard, and remove all pos
sible doubts and fears on that point
When / read this l doubted, and Won
Tered Mckinley did not kick Gage out
# the treasury building for placing him 1
and cur party in a false position, but
lie did not, and finally the president in,l
speech in New York, at a banquet. |
4 y I
~ the glare and glitter of S5,000,000.-
lG0, said. Whatever may he the Ian
yUage Of the contract the United
states viii discharge ali its obligations
n the currency recognized as the best
throughout the civilized world at the
ime of payment
This finally opened my eyes, and
me 10 see the fact that the
,arty had gone over and was con-
rolled and dominated by the bond
FOLDERS and money monsters, who are
LOW debauching the American people.
can now see that under the blanket
nd darkness of sophiStry, the leaders
f the Republican party have been us
ng us TO pull the chestnuts out of the
ire. and when they have triumphed
nd are (by the power of gold once
more entrenched in power, they place
heir thumb to their nose and laugh
I US.
i feel that Utah Republicans have ,
cen betrayed, and | for one am not
olitical chameleon or political paraly-
Ic to overlook the wrong. As well
hight the cruci6Xion of Christ be de-
led and cOndOned as to defend the
arty of Lincoln, for the crime of 1873 i
nd the further accumulation of that
rhine in 1891. /
WITHOUT a PARTY.
When asked which party he would i
ow espouse. Mr.. Crane replied that ,
Q. like thousands of other Republic
rs. was without a party: that he was 7
firm believer in protection and rec I
,rocity. and should until the return s
{ the Republican party to the faith of a
s founders) be a free lance, espousing a
ny and every measure that would i
uild up Utahs industries. open her I
ines. give employment to her idle +
tizens and make prosperous where 2
ow was only idleness and want.
QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
Mr.. Crane has just written lengthy
.Dlv 10 an editorial in the American s
ribune. published at Indianapolis Il
hich is calculated to open the eyes Of j.
d soldiers and the people generally f
the infamies of the present admins T.
alton. 1t is as follows: C
iitor American Tribune, indianapolis. $
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