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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14
THE CLUB ARGUMENT.

Our contemporary down the street
| proposes to convert the Democracy of
! this state to its way of thinking with
a club. Clubs are very persuasive in
an argument when the other fellow has
none to use in defense of his prosition,
| but where the opposition is we'll sup
piled the success of the club argument
/ is by no means sure to terminate in
favor of the aggressor.
The Tribune is driven to the extreme
of making willful measurements of
facts in its effort to bolster up it's pres
ent position. 1t sets aside well known
truths as though they were play blocks
to be disregarded or thrown aside as
may suit its childish whim Thus
when it makes an assault on Demo-
Gratis generally, CHASING them as
disreputable lot, it suddenly fetches up
against a stone wall when it remem-
bers Bryan and tries to escape stulti-
/ fication by saying we are not in
Guiding Mr.. Bryan in this rehearsal"
Why not Mr.. Bryan? He is d Demo-
crat and always was, and, moreover.
he is proud of the fact. Mr.. Bryan is
not coward nor is he ashamed of his
associates; he has the courage of his
convictions, and they are thoroughly
Democratic. In politics, MIR. Bryan
has no hope for himself, no wish for
the welfare of his fellow citizens. nor
a desire for the advancement of his
country's interest, which is not cent
cred ultimately in the success of the
Democratic party. Mr.. Bryan believes
in the Democratic party, and were he
a resident of Utah, he would be in
exact harmony with the attitude of the
Democracy Of this state. There is not
a proposition which the Tribune has
advanced politically as affecting the
local situation which Mr.. Bryan would
subscribe to when he understood the
motive behind it.
The Tribune hoped for fusion be-
cause of the effect such ''co-operation'
would have on the goldbug centers of
the east. We ask, if the Democracy
wins the contest in this state this fall.
viii not the result be much more eff
fective in the goldbug centers when it
is known that the people of Utah are
true to the principles of the Chicago
platform, than it would be if the state
bad been Carried on a platform which
advocates free silver, protection, re-
ciprocity and endorses the Republican
administration?
The great national party which
represents the gold idea in its fitness
is the Republican party. Arrayed |
against that party is the great Demo- |
cratic party, representing as COM |
pletely as it is possible for a party to |
represent anything, the free silver idea, !
and when the next great battle is
fought, if it is decisive in favor Of sill |
yer, the capitulation must be to the !
Democratic party. And all the forces
engaged on the Democratic side win
come in for their full share of reward,
no matter if they did join the advanc-
ing column just before the last grand
assault.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14
gHE SALT LAKE HERALD. SUNDAY, AUGUST IA, 1898

for a gold candidate on a national
platform which endorses the single
standard while other silver men" OBJ
ject to gold plank in a local plat
| form.
But the Tribune goes on to say that
which neither it nor any one else
knows concerning that election. 1t
says:
Mr.. Bryan. Mr.. Jones and the others
know that there were not half Demo-
cratic votes enough cast in Utah to
elect the Bryan electoral ticket; that
the result was due solely to the fact
| that Republicans by the thousand,
holding principle above all party OBJ
| legations, went to the help of Mr.. Bryan
and carried the state for him, and in
their judgment the Democrats of Utah
ought to have been big and true and
generous enough to have likewise rec
ognized that fact and to have been
willing to do the square thing.
! By what authority does our Republi-
can contemporary make the assertion
that there were not half Democratic
votes enough cast in Utah to elect the
Bryan electoral ticket?''
Its own figures show the error of that
conclusion. The silver Republican,"
of Utah had a candidate for congress
before the people in that campaign. 1t
is fair to presume that he received
the silver Republican vote. It is
also certain that he received the regu-
lar Republican support, since there was
no other Republican candidate for con-
gress in the field.
hn off ioI CHI
| fayette Holbrook, the silver and pro-
! lection nominee. received 27,S19 votes
as against 1852 for the Democratic
candidate.
Here is one way to determine, ap-
proximately. the strength of the ''sil-
yer Republicans" in Utah. There was
but little difference between the total
vote for president and the total vote
for congressman. This makes it evil
dent that Holbrook polled the full
strength of his divided party.
Take from his 27,S13 ballots the 3,4S4
cast for Mckinley, and 1929, a fair
estimate of the voting strength of the
silver Republicans" of Utah, is the
result
Or, the difference between Kings
vote and Bryan's vote, less the Popu-
list vote, Will give, approximately, the
same figures.
1t is true that Republicans by the
thousand" voted for Mr. Bryan, or.
rather, for the principles to which he
was pledged. They helped to swell his
majority. but did not carry the state
for him. 1t was not possible to do
that with $4,000 votes. And the Demo-
Gratis, with 1882 votes, had a decided
majority of the total 1915 cast.
But our contemporary should not for
get that it was the Democratic party
that declared for silver and selected
its champion in Mr.. Bryan. To that
party belongs the credit, for it has had
the blame as well. 1t is entitled to
the benefit of it's action, for il has made
some sacrifices, too.
Republicans who recognize this fact,
who have laid aside partisan prejudice
and self-interest, who are not con-
stantly calling attention to their per-
sonai loss or claiming especial credit
for renouncing an acknowledged
wrong, who have cut loose entirely
from the party of gold, will find that
the Democratic party is big and true
and generous enough" to give them
honor and support and recognition.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14
ATTORNEY GENERAL MADE
LAW.

For some years past there have beer
many complaints about judge-mad,
law, and the people have entered pro
tests against having courts take upor
! themselves the functions of the legis,
lature. But bad as judge-made law is
] attorney general-made law is very
much worse. The abrogation of the
| famous section % of the DingIey law
was specimen of attorney general
! made law. The gentleman who made
the law in that case is now on the
supreme bench of the United States.
| Now the country is treated to an
| other specimen of attorney general
made law. The war revenue law OF
1898 provides Schedule A, stamp taxes
| that bill of exchange foreign), or
letter Of credit Gncluding orders by
telegraph or otherwise for the pay
ment of money issued by express OF
other companies or any person or per-
sons), drawn in, but payable out of the
United States, if drawn singly or other
wise than in a set of three or more, &C
cording to the custom of merchants and
bankers, shall pay for a sum not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars, four cents.
and for each one hundred dollars or
fractional part thereof in excess of one
hundred dollars, four cents"
Now, this provision was sending our
foreign exchange to Canadian banks.
which We're making the profit while the
government was losing the revenue.
This was undoubtedly bad for the
American banks and the government.
but it is the law that foreign bills of
exchange shall pay four cents for ev-
cry hundred dollars or fraction thereof
and the constitutional power to re-
peal it resides in congress, and no
where else. But the attorney general
has practically repealed the law by
constituting it to mean that foreign
bills of exchange only require two cents
instead of four If he can construe a
plain law of congress to mean the very
opposite of what it says, why cannot
he construe it to mean anything?
Why cannot he say that the law de-
clares that these bills of exchange shall
have an eight-cent stamp placed upon
When the attorney general of the
United States can abrogate or radi-
cally change a law to suit his idea of
what should be, or to accommodate
particular interests, it is time that the
people were asking whittier we are
drifting. When the chief legal officer
of the United States shows his con-
tempt for the law is it to be wondered
at that courts and their officers are
not held in the respect by the people
they were once? The attorney general
of the United States has no more
or right to change a law of
than the humblest citizen of
the United States. If the law officers
of the government become lawless
what is to be expected of others? 1t is
time stop was put to the making of
attorney general-made law.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14
PEACE!

On this day that was set apart at the
time Of the creation as a day of rest,
the American people can offer up
thanks that that peace for which they
have prayed for long weeks has come
at last. Some time since the president
of these United States called upon the
American people to assemble in their
several places of worship and return
thanks to God for his protecting care
of them during the war, and for the
success he had voushsafed them. To-
day they have the same cause for
thankfulness, only to it there has been
added the blessing of peace, that great
est of blessings to mankind.
Not only has peace came to our own
beloved land. but it has come to Cuba,
that island which has not known it for
a quarter of a century; and the peace
that has come to it will be of the en-
during kind, kind never known by
the Cubans before. So soon as the
necessary changes that are the result
of the war can be effected, the Cubans
will have their destiny in their own
hands. May they shape it wisely!
Not only has peace from the strife of
battle come, but a cause of strife and
bloodshed that was ever disturbing the
peace and happiness of our land and
injuring it's prosperity, will have been
removed forever. The war was under
taken in the interest of humanity, and
its result will prove to be the upiift-
ing of a large part of humanity.
While the war has resulted in wip-
ing out a source of constant danger
its effect upon our own people has been
salutary in the extreme. The country
has been made to feel how thoroughly
one it is, how the aspirations of the
people are the same, how their hearts
beat in unison. The war has demon
strated the oneness of the country, that
sectionalism is no more, that never
again will there be any politico-geo-
graphical questions to worry the peo-
pie.
For American arms the war has been
a most glorious one. Some hundreds
of lives have been lost on our side, but
the number is very. very small when
the great results achieved are consid-
cred. 1t may be truthfully said that
history records no war where the re-
suits were so great, the changes
wrought were so momentous, so full
of portent, as the war with Spain that
has just closed.
Truly the United States are a fav-
ored and blessed nation. May the re-
suits of the war be as wisely utilized
by them as the war has been brilliant
and successful on the part of this
country!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14
gangway, expecting him to come on

| hoard gangway, expecting him to come on
| that side, the commodore. discovering
that he was making for the port ladder
rushed about as wildly as his equity legs
would let him, and 'shooed' us all over to
the other side with the exclamation:
! Don't you see the king coming on that
side?' He was a very queer character.
lie had been accustomed to the usageS OF
good society all his life. but in showing
the king around his ship. instead of adj
dressing him in the usual form. he would
say. Step this way king. if you please.
or Let me help you down this hatch.
king. | could never understand whether
it was drOllery on his part. or not.
He dined large number of Austrian Off
GERS one day, as a sort of wind-up to the
festivities prior to our sailing away to
the coast of Italy. They We're all pretty
well filled with wine by the time dinner
was over. and adjourned to the poop deck
The old gentleman presented most COM
ical appearance with his wig slowed one
side and his eye, which always looked as
If it were glass. rolling around in a most
quizzical fashion. He was surrounded by
Austrians, who seemed all to be talking
to him at the same time. He was backing
away from them as they were geSticulat-
ing at him. until he reached the end of
the poop. and when he could go no fur
Their without going overheard, he threw
up his hands in despair. exclaiming. L
don't understand a - word you say.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14

/ which giving it only lip service waits
only the resolution of the next Demo-
cratic national convention to turn it
down in order to do likewise.
Such talk comes with bad grace from
the Tribune. 1t occupies a. position
right now that should close its mouth
about the sincerity of others.
! Posing as an advocate of the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, it en-
dorsed party call that any follower
of Hanna might endorse, that every
gold Republican in Utah will endorse.
J 1t advocated fusion in the interest
of Senator Cannon but turned against
him before Thea question had been
settled.
1t called for the cooperation of
Democrats and SILVER Republicans"
but began to abuse the former and
coax the latter to follow it back into
the Republican camp before the cam
paign fairly opened.
1t refuses to longer aid the Demo-
cratic party in its fight for silver be-
cause it was not allowed to dictate the
actions of that party. 1t questions the
sincerity of men who stood for silver
while it was flirting with the admin
istration last year, and who stiIl stand
for silver while it is affiliating with
McKinleyites, commencing them as
silver men," and subscribing to a
party call in which the question of free
coinage is utterly ignored.
Talk about being interested in any
vital principal" Talk about ''lip-serv-
ice!''
All that the Republican organ has
to say concerning Democrats and sill
yer is based upon a supposition, false,
element it represents do not await the
action of any convention, but turn from
the cause for petty spite, showing the
slender cord that bound it to a
principle.
Its covert threat the other day show
ed the depth of its sincerity when it
said:
Ii this finally results in electing a
goldbug to congress and a goldbug
senator, these leaders here in Utah who
were made leaders neither by the grace
of God nor Democratic votes, will have
only themselves to thank for their
unparalleled selfish stupidity.
And then it proceeded to endorse a
straddle call, an obviously insincere
address to Republicans of every stripe,
to get together, goldbugs and ALL and
it classed them as ''silver men,"
Talk about sincerity
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14
WHO CARRIED THE srATEp

Our morning contemporary says:
''Mr. Hanna knows that Utah was lost
to the Republican party in 1896 because
there were not nearly votes enough
cast here for Mr.. Mckinley to carry
the state.''
The chairman of the Republican ma
tional committee ought to know that
much, certainly. He probably has the
figures in his scrap book. BY referring
to them he will see that 13.4S4 votes
were cast in Utah for Mckinley, 1S.4S1
of which, according to the Tribune,
were cast by silver men,"
Evidently Mr.. Hanna cannot under
stand how some silver men" can vote
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14
Wales As a Mimic.

They tell rather good story about H
r. H. the Prince of Wales. A couple OF
weeks ago he was taking a walk in St
James park before breakfast when he
found himself followed by a well-dressed
but crazy looking old woman. Having
seen this woman before. and .probab bly,
guessing what her object was. the prince
resolved to take no notice of her. but con-
tinued his walk until obliged to turn
homewards. The woman Immediately
stood before him and curtsied. The prince
raised his hat and tried to pass on.
Il have a grievance. your royal high
ness began the stranger, producing from
her handbag roll of closely-written
parchment.
'.Ach. madam, these is not ze first time
I have been taken for re Prince of
Walesl" was the reply in a gruff voice
with strong German accent.
After flashing a glance of deepest scorn
upon him. the old lady put away her pre-
ciOuS documents. remarking: Il have the
honor TO have known all the members of
the royal family and. if my eyesight were
not becoming bad nowadays / should not
have made such an astonishing error as
TO take you for the prince The Prince
of Wales again took off his hat, smiled
and proceeded on his way.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14

Men SO widely separated from each
other as are Pennsylvania and Utah
may be accepted as fairly typical of the
average American. They teach that
the American can be converted into a
soldier in a marvelously short time,
and that a large standing army is I'M
necessary in this country. no matter
where menaces come FROM" says the
Baltimore American. And the men from
Pennsylvania and from Utah are
among the types of which the whole
country is proud. Had volunteers from
other states been in the trenches at
Malate they would have stood there
and fought as CALAMITY as did those
who were there on that eventful night.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14
WHEN HIS WIFE Is AWAY.

OF all the insidious.
Temptations invidious
Contrived by the devil for pulling men
down,
There's none more delusive,
Seductive. abusive.
Than the snare to a man with his wife
out of town.
He feels such delightfulness,
Observation-Disclosures
Sure-to-ge t-tightfulness-
| own it with pain
A bachelor rakiShnesS.
What-will- you-takishness,
None can explain.
His wife may be beautiful,
Tender and dutiful.
'Tis not that her absence
Would cause him delight:
But the cursed opportunity
Baleful immunity
Scatters his scruples as day scatters
night Detroit Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14
TALES OF THE DAY.
AM Admiral's Reniniscence.

In Rear Admiral Franklins naval rem
iniscences. just published this is one from
many: When the Independence lay at
Trieste she was visited by thousands and
thousands of people who had never seen
so large a ship before. and among those
who inspected her were the king of Sax
ony. the ban of Croatia and others of ex-
aited rank. The commander of the In
dependence was Commodore Morgan, who
was very gouty'' and very old for his
years" The visit of the king of Saxony
stirred the old gentleman up to extra
ordinary exertions.
I'VE were all in full uniform to receive
the king and while assembled at the star
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14
REPUBLICAN SINCERITY.

The Tribune is notoriously inconsist-
ent and outrageously unfair And it
we'll sustains this reputation in the
following TRADE against the Democrats
of Utah:
These gentlemen are not specially
interested now in any vital principle
that is at stake, but are intent ONLY
upon the pickings and stealings. This
fact is so manifest that it becomes a
duty which all good men owe to the
cause of silver, to turn down a party
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14

The wyoming Republican state con-
vention .'unhesitatingly' reaff1rmed
''the financial plank of the platform
IS expressed by the national conven-
ton at st. Louis" The Wyoming Re
publicans are a different kind from the
Utah Republicans.-Salt Lake Herald.
The difference is only seeming. The
Utah Republicans are just the same
kind of silVerites as their Wyoming
brethren, but lack the formers cour-
age-Utah State Journal.
We accept the amendment and it
will be made part of the official rec
ord.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14
CAMP LIFE.

u. II. B. a member of the Sixty-fiftf
regiment. at Camp Alger, sends home tn,
following rather amusing poetical option,
of the experiences of the soldiers, en-.
titled Camp Life in a NUTSHELL
Singing ballads. playing cards.
Eating side-meat. running guards,
Marching. drilling. exercising.
Lying round philosophizing.
Digging bitches, learning tactics.
Standing guard until your back aches:
Doing laundry. picking trash up
Cleaning camp and dishing hash up;
Cooking pork and taking baths.
Eating bareback, cleaning paths;
Getting yellow as a lanyard
Wondering when We'll meet the Spaniard
Reading papers, reading books
Fasting, grumbling, "cuSSing' cooks
Writing letters, cleaning tents up,
In our trousers sewing rents up;
Drilling like old-time cadets.
Smoking pipes and cigarettes;
Telling stories. making wishes.
Splitting wood and washing dishes;
Turning in at sound of taps
Spouting verse and shooting craps;
Getting UP at 5 O'Clock.
Wanting fight and hearing talk;
Thinking that we're not in clover
Wondering when the war'll be over
Buffalo Commercial.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14

knew all about the silver sentiment of the
west two years ago. He knows that . is
absolutely controls the patronage of Utah
and no man who is for silver stands any
chance of getting a federal Office. The
. consistent. Cyclone. forSoothi
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14

For the third or fourth time, the
organ yesterday announced the CO.
operation between the Democratic
party and the Hon. r. Macintosh.
The public is now we'll aware of this
partnership Cbut not cOalescence), and
we suggest that it be given a rest on
the subject.-The Tribune.
Had our contemporary been able to
announce even once that Hon. R.
Macintosh was for fusion or the sill
yer Republican party, it would have
kept the item, in fulI-face black type,
at the head of it's editorial column
But, unfortunately for it, and FORUM
ately for the state, it has been unable
to make any such announcement.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14

Spain cannot understand why the
United States went at the business of
settling the terms of peace in such a
straightforward way, with no beating
about the bush and no long palavers in
which there was any amount of talk
and nothing done. That is Uncle Sans
Way
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

has been revealed by the conflicting stor-
les of General Shafter and Surgeon Mum
son. and it is that the soldiers OF the
richest nation on earth. the men in arms
who stand for a government whose Deo-
pie demand that their soldiers shall be
equipped with every facility which can
lessen the hazards of war, were. through
incompetency which ought to be located
beyond peradventure, made to endure
hardships and privations and lack of
proper treatment which should be impos-
sible in this age of scientific warfare.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14

In Chicago they detail policemen to
preserve order at weddings. At a
wedding the other day a policeman was
called upon to perform his part, and
he shot. and probably fatally wounded,
one Of the guests.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14

General Miles has had a very pleas
ant time in Porto Rico, has been re-
ceived with open arms and all that,
but General Miles viii not get lieu
tenant generalship.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14

Professor Charles Eliot Norton now
has an opportunity to rise up and de-
nounce and condemn the terms of
peace; to praise Spain and contemn the
United States.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14

The war having ceased and peace
re-established, it is easy to see, what
was plain enough before, that there
was never any need for making a bond
issue
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14

Henceforth Spain will not have to
and maintain them there. This will
save her millions and millions of pese-
tas every year.