The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-20

Helena Independent: Wolcott's ~explana-
ton of the reason 1t failed is several
months late, but serves to show that he
knows now what all the people have
known for months
Anaconda Standard: The long and short
of il is that Mr.. Wolcott's effort to pat
the president and Slur the secretary sim
ply makes him ridiculous. Wolcott
ackie one Republican goldbug president
for whom he vouched, just as he vouched
for Mckinley. He went at President
Harrison hammer and tongs in senate
speeches. He admitted afterward that
he didn't very much enjoy his experience;
he said as much 10 some of his friends; so
good and pleasant a thing it is to bask
in the sunlight of administrative ave
Thu summing up of it all is this: Mr.. VOL
colt claimed that there was hope for sill
Yer in the Mckinley administration. A
goldbug ongress voted one hundred
thousand dollars for him to have an op-
~portunity to prove that he was wrong;
and he proved it.
Denver News Mr.. Wolcott will have
to make some more and ADLER speeches
before he can convince the voters of this
country that Mr.. Mckinley and the Re
publican party will be permitted by the
money influence which controls them to
re-establish bimetailism by International
conference or otherwise. We can no
longer doubt Mr.. Woicott's devotion to
the president ana tho party. He has
made up his mind 10 remain with them
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crue from their friendship. But Mr.. VOL
colt is asking too much when he asks
US to believe that Mr.. Mckinley will pro-
mote bimetallism by every means in his
power or by any means; he asks too
much when he asks us TO believe that the
president is not to be held responsible for
asks too much when no asks us to be-
lieve that Mr.. Gage is not voicing the
real policy of the administration and of
the powerful money influences that put
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will.
Denver Republican, His faith in Presi-
dent McKinley's. devotion to the cause of
bimetallism would be sublime if it were
not ridiculous. Senator Wolcott knows
very well that in July last the president
sent a special message to congress urg-
ing the immediate enactment of legisla-
ton In accordance with the recommended
tions of the Indianapolis gold currency
commission. and he knows, too. that in
his nnual message to congress at the be-
ginning of the present session the presi-
dent recommended the enactment of a
bill for the withdrawal of our outstand-
ing legal tender notes. in order to make
gold the sole medium of redemption in
this country.
Denver Times; Upon the whole. the
speech and the attitude of Senator VOL
colt will be a bitter DISAPPOINTMENT to his
constituency and to mis- friends. They
had hoped for something better. and they
certainly nad a right % eXpect It: In an
emergency so important. so crucial. a man
of Senator Wolcottss intellectual capa-
city and brilliant attainments should have
acquitted himself more creditably.
Denver Post: Under such circum-
stances as these the natural inquiry
arises: Why does Wolcott specifically
shield n master While at the same time
he lashes the servant? Is a member of
the cabinet greater than its head? Can
he formulate and publish a line of policy
on the gravest question which confronts
the administrator and thus involve and
entangle it in views which its head must
constantly reDudiate and about which he
must make explanations which in their
very nature must he humiliating? Such
a situation is almost as inconceivable as it
would be intolerable 10 all properly con-
stituted men. Is Wolcott himself trans
parently honest in this transaction? Is it
possible that he fails to seelthe drift of
his own logic and that in his apparent eff
fort to shield the president he in reality
is placing him in a much more embarras-
sing and humiliating position than he
ever before occupied? To save such an
exalted parsonage or the plea that his
heart is all right. but his head or back
bone is wrong. is a plea open to question.
whether viewed from a standpoint of poll
tics, eXpedlency. or policy.