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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
JUDGE BAsNN OR JUDGE zANEq


Elsewhere in this issue will be found
expressions of opinion by members Of
the bar upon the fitness of Judge Bas-
kin for the office OF justice of the SUI
preme court.
To these who are acquainted with
Judge Basllin. and are familiar with
his long career at the bar, no endorse
ment of this kind is necessary. For
many years he has stood in the front
rank of his profession in Utah, and the
records of the courts in varied and i'm
portant litigation attest his ability as
lawyer. No one of the justices of the
court, it is believed. has ever directed
so many and weighty cases as has
Judge Baskin. A graduate of the cele-
brated law school OF Harvard univer-
sity, all his life he has been student
of books, of men and affairs, until now,
in the maturity of his years, he offers
in support of his candidacy a cultured
mind stored with learning, and withal
an educated sense of justice so sensi-
tive as to preclude all suspicion of in
fiuence through extraneous circum-
stances. He has no relationships at the
administration of justice, and existing
conditions imperatively demand his
election.
We should not have deemed it neces-
sary to say so much in behalf of the
Democratic nominee, but for the fact
that certain small Republican orators
throughout the state are presuming to
question his capacity for judicial sta
ton. We do not think that this sort of
talk viii aid the Republican candidate.
Judge Zane ought not to be elected.
For three years, against the generally
understood, but Intellectual protest of
lawyers and clients, he has presided in
the supreme court of the state, and
pronounced judgment in case after case
in which his son was engaged as coun-
sci.
1t has not been unusual for litigants
to retain the son to argue appeals be-
fore his father in the supreme court
after trials in the lower courts, and this
very circumstance has given rise to
pronounced and harsh criticism of the
bench. We do not say the judge was,
or would be, knowingly influenced by
the fact that advantage would neces-
saIily result to the son by a practice so
fostered, but such impression is abroad
among the people and its tendency is to
bring the bench into disrepute.
Amid the clash and clangor of war
ring political factions, the people |
should not lose sight OF the supreme |
court, nor the necessity impending to
preserve the bench from reproach or
even suspicion.
Judge Basl1in should be elected.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: MONDAY. OCTOBER 81 1sss

fall against those of Alma Eldredge of
Coalville, but there was a time Senator
Jones was regarded as d leading au-
thority on bimetallism.
On the 9Th day of September. 1894,
the Salt Lake Tribune conceded that
me is an authority on silver. No man
in the Union can explain so forcibly as
he the devastation which has come
through decentralization. In the confer
ence at Brussels he stood out alone, the
great commoner, whose arguments the
financiers of Europe could not answer"
With an eye almost prophetic he fore
saw the action of the Republican ma
tional convention. Subsequently thou
sands of lifelong Republicans acknowl-
edged that he was right. No honest sill
verite believes that there is any cnance
for silver in the Republican organiza-
ton.
In 1894 Senator Jones wrote to the
chairman Of the Republican central
committee of Nevada as follows:
Dear Sir-Having become convinced
that the Republican party organiza-
ton is unalterably opposed to the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to
l. or at all, except with the consent OF
foreign governments and at a ratio TO
be dictated by them. l have to an
nounce that 1 can no longer act with
that party. JOHN P. JONES.
His convictions have been confirmed
d hundred times since that year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
METHOD IN THEIR MADNESS.

Under ordinary circumstances it
would be considered madness for the
Republican state committee to keep a
congressional candidate away from the
metropolis of the state through six
weeks of the campaign.
1t really seems to be so under the
present circumstances, but there's
method in it.
When Alma Eldredge began his tour
of the state he was sent north, west,
east, anywhere to keep him out of sight
of the Salt Lake people.
His organ, the Tribune, is making
his fight in this county, defining his po-
sition, uttering his VOWS and signing
pledges in his name.
GIr. Eldredge is now in the south,
where he is describing Mark Hanna as
silver man." and defining the financial
policy of the st. Louis platform as
purely bimetallic.
1t is also intimated that the Re9ub-
lican state committee really engaged
John p Meakin as a tutor, and that.
if Alma has made any sort of progress
in his use of English, he will be per
mitted to speak briefly in this city dur
ing the excitement at the close of the
campaign.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
THE ROOSTER.

The Democratic rooster is on the Of
fetal ballots. Secretary Hammond
thought to keep it off, but his thought
did not become action.
An election without the rooster on
the ticket would be like Fourth Of
July celebration without the American
eagle.
And what does the rooster stand for?
For Democracy; the principles of JEFF
ferson and Jackson; for equal rights
to all; special privileges to none.
The rooster stands for the free. I'M
limited and independent coinage of sill
yer ct the ratio of Is to l. And the
rooster doesn't believe in asking the
consent of any other nation before the
United States enter upon that policy.
The rooster stands for the best inter-
ests of the people OF Utah.
Put your cross under the rooster, and
let it go at that.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
SKATER TURNS ON HIS CRITIC.

In the October issue of Scribner's
Magazine appeared an article by Rich
ard Harding Davis, who was in Cuba
as a war correspondent, entitled: THE
Battle of San Juan" In it Mr.. Davis
criticises General Shafter with exceed
ing severity.
General Shafter Was at Montauk
when the publication came out. From
that day to this he has been impor-
tuned by publishers of magazines and
newspapers to give out to the public
his version of the. operations before
Santiago, with a view of refuting- the
charges made by Mr.. Davis.
General Shafter has invariably de-
clined.
Three days ago the Tribune sent a
correspondent to Lansing, Mich, where
the general has been visiting the scenes
of his early life, and asked him if he
would not remove the paddock which he
had placed upon his lips. After As
hours elaboration, the general decided
to make just one public statement. He
declared most positively that he did
not intend to enter into a newspaper
controversy with any man. He would.
however, make the first, last and only
statement concerning the affair
through the columns of sthe Tribune.
j'WlI you make detailed reply TO
the article in question:" he was asked.
NO" said General Shafter; Il shall
make no reply to it. 1 am told, how
ever, that some of my fr.ensIs will
write the history of the caIiOaiga at
Santiago. A gentleman who was there
throughout the entire campaign and
participated in it will do that work, 1
am told. I will not engage in a wordy
controversy with Richard Harding Da-
Wis or anybody else. 1 know what's
the matter with him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
ANTI-coRPoRATIoN DECISIONS.

The great railroad corporations feel
that they are on the defensive since
the decision of the United States su-
prene court in the Joint Traffic asso-
CATION case. But 4 scarcely less i'm
portant decision is that of the Illinois
supreme court in the Pullman case.
The latter tribunal is not so august as
the former. nor do its decisions carry
the same weight, still it is a great thing
for the supreme court of a great state
to render a decision in the case of a
concern that is only less powerful than
the railroads.
The town OF Pullman is famous the
country over. It is owned by the Pull
man Palace Car company, and was
modelled after the German MiIhausen,
the one town in Europe that is sup
posed to have solved the problem of
properly caring for and housing the
working man. Pullman came into bad
notoriety some four years ago, because
of the strike there, which was initia-
tory TO the great railroad riots in 1894.
The attorney general of Illinois
brought suit against the company TO
test the legality of its Pullman town
holdings. and the supreme court held
that they were illegal, that the COM
pany had exceeded its charter rights.
These two decisions. coming so close
together show that the trend of things
is against the great corporations Hos
tiIity to corporations as such is as
senseless as hostility TO the govern
uent because it is the government. But
the great corporations have become ex-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
WHERE. DEMOCRATS STAND.

Our Republican friends, including
Hon. Alma Eldredge, Hon. John Henry
Smith and the Salt Lake Tribune, are
devoting time and space to telling the
people of Utah where the Democratic
party stands on the free silver ques-
/ ton. They would have it appear that
! the Democrats in their state platforms
this year have sought to ignore the
question, thus conveying the impression
that they are against silver
Money has compiled a table showing
what the party in the different states
has declared on the silver question
during the 1898 campaign. Here is the
table:
DEMOCRATIC STATE PLATFORMS.
Maine-Free silver
New Hampshire-Free silver. Endorsed
Chicago platform.
Vermont-Free silver Endorsed Chicago
platform.
Observation-Disclosures silver. Endorsed
Chicago platform.
ConnecIicut-Nothing.
New York-Nothing
New JerSey-NOt hing.
MISUNDERSTANDING.
Delaware-Nothing
MISUNDERSTANDING
Nirginia-Free silver.
North Carolina
South Carolina-Free silver.
GeOrgia-Free silver.
Florida-Eree silver.
Alabama rec silver.
Mississippi-Free silver.
Louisiana-Nothing.
Texas-Free silver. Endorsed Chicago
platform.
Arkansas-Free silver. Endorsed Chicago
platform.
Kentucky-No convention.
Tennessee-Free silver. Endorsed Chi
cago platform.
Observation-Disclosures Chicago platform.
Ohio-Free silver. Endorsed Chicago
platform.
Indiana-Free silver. Endorsed Chicago
nllnois-Free silver. Endorsed Chicago
platform.
Michigan-Free silver. Fusion.
Wisconsin-Free silver. Endorsed Chi
cago platform.
Observation-Disclosures Chicago platform.
Iowa-Free silver. Endorsed Chicago
platform.
Kansas-Free silver. Endorsed Chicago
platform.
braska-Nothing Fusion.
North Dakota-Nothing. Endorsed Chi
cago platform.
South Dakota-Nothing. Fusion.
Montana-Free silver.
Wyoming-FusiCn.
Idaho-Free silver Partial fusion.
Colorado-Free silver. Partial fusion.
Utah-Free silver.
Nevada-Free silver.
California-Free silver. Fusion.
Oregon-Free silver Fusion.
Washington-Free silver. Partial fusion.
The showing doesn't indicate that the
Democrats are very hostile to free sill
yer, does it?
The hope for free silver is in the
Democratic party.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

THE campaign at Santiago resulted
most favOrably for the American army.
Had there been a failure some weight
might be given to Richard Harding
Davis comment on the management OF
the campaign. But we won, we took the
city, we raised the flag over the palace,
we took all the Spanish prisOners-we
got not only the army at Santiago
proper, but 1900 or IA, 600 Spanish SOL
diers in that district. We did not lose
a prisoner. a circumstance unheard of
before in military campaign.
so soon as got it into my head that
the Spaniards were willing to give up
what they had 1 demanded it all. l
believed then, and L believe now, that
the Spanish officers in Santiago got an
intimatiOn from home to surrender the
whole army and thus put a stop to the
war.
Did anybody ever consider the re-
suits of the Santiago campaign? 1t
meant the removal of 10000 Spanish
soldiers from Cuba without the firing
of a shot and the capture of $4,000 men
with all their war material. With the
capitulation of Santiago and the de-
struction of Cervera's fleet the war
came to an end. Nobody for an in
slant dreamed the finish was so near
at hand. l doubt if there was one
man III the NIOle country VINO dQDcl-
pated such a glorious result. 1 am
sure l did not. l am heartily glad our
operations were so successful
we might have lost by bullets and
fever 100000 American lives in Cuba.
But Santiago and the destruction of
the Spanish fleet settled the business.
We took the town, we raised the stars
and stripes over the palace. and that
was the end of it. Ny orders, when 1
went to Cuba, were to assist in driving
out Cervera's feet and to capture San
tiago. The army l had the honor TO
command did its work, and did it well.
The result was glorious. SO / have
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
"CURRENCY REFORM"

No one in Utah should for a single
moment deceive himself as to what
Republican success at the polls in
November means. 1t means currency
REFORM and currency reform" means
the enactment of legislation for the
purpose of strengthening the gold
standard And what does strengthen
ing the gold standard mean? 1t means,
so far as the Republican party is able,
to so entrench gold as the money of
final redemption so that it will be i'm
possible to ever make silver anything
more than subsidiary coin.
1t must be remembered that the
thing the president urged most strong
ly in his first annual message was
that congress should take such action
as would put the country's finances on
solid basis, otherwise to enact such
laws as would strengthen the existing
gold standard.
If the next congress is Republican,
every effort will be made to enact
the currency reform" bill reported by
the house committee on banking. This
is the Overstreet bill, the provisions
of which, as summarized by the
indianapolis Sentinel, are as follows:
l. Retire $S46 OOO, 900 of greenbacks.
.. Stop coinage of silver dollars.
8. Make $500, 900, 600 of silver redeem
able in gold.
4. Make debt contracts, public and
private, payable in gold.
5. Turn over to banks all power to
issue paper currency.
6. Secure bank currency by assets
only.
:. Leave depositors without protec-
ton.
s. Enable banks to contract or ex-
pand their currency at will.
8. Create a bank monopoly.
10. Leave honest banks at the mercy
of dishonest ones.
II. Make legitimate banking hazard
Gus.
u. Increase the value of our debt
obligations, national and private, many
hundred million dollars.
10. Open an avenue for wildcat
banking.
H. Provide a twelve-year board to
control currency.
10. Make money the master, every
thing else the servant
If the people of Utah want that,
then all they have to do, so far as in
their power lies, is to elect a Repub-
lican congressman and legislature.
What the people of Utah want is free
silver and not currency reform,
which simply means strengthening the
existing gold standard.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

ceedingly aggressive, if not insolent,
and it is full time a curb was put upon
them. They have been broadening the
scope Of their operations until the OBJ
jects for which they were originally
created have almost been lost sight Of
To carry out the object of their crea-
ton they have speciously reasoned that
they could or must do this or that, just
as the Pullman Palace Car company
created the town Of Pullman to house
its employees in.
1t is this branching out that has ere
ated so much hostility to the powerful
corporations, and the people have felt
that their tentacles must be cut off.
Corporations should be made TO adhere
strictly to the pursuit of the business
designated in their charters as the pur-
pose of their creation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

that the town is full of well known
gambling dens. and that no effort is
being made to close or keep them
closed.
Such information is surprising, COM
ing as it does from the Deseret News;
surely the moral status Of this NUM-
cipal administration is not so bad as
the News paints it. And the intimate
knowledge of conditions professed by
our evening contemporary Is likewise
surprising
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
ASTOUNDING CHARGESl

According TO the Deseret Evening
News. Mayor Clark is running a wide
open" town.
Some time ago the News called atten-
ton to the fact that saloons were do
ing business on Sundays. the same as
week days.
Now the News says that gambling is
carried on just as if John Clark had
never been elected; that the raids re-
Gently made were for buncomb; that
the only game suppressed was roulette;
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
STATE PRESS COMMENT.

Ephraim Enterprise: a prominent young
Republican of this city is reported 70
have said that he counted over 90 gram
NAUTICAL errors made by Mr.. Eldredge in
his speech here last Thursday night. That
young man must have been paying more
attention to his best girl than to the
speech, or he could not have expressed
the number in two figures. A man who
aspires to the high office of congressman
should ct least be able to speak intelli-
gently.
Payson Globe-Header: Salt Lake pro-
poses to have a salt palace. Evidently
the metropolis is getting little too fresh.
Logan Journal: Where was that great
friend of silver, Alma Eldredge upon
election day in 1896. when every true silver
man was hustling votes and shouting for
Bryan? He was at the polls voting, and
inducing his friends to vote for Mckinley
the representative of Mark Hanna gold
buggery. Has he repented? Certainly
not, He is praising Mckinley in every
town in the state. and if the same men
again confront each other in 1900 he will
do as he did before, vote for Mckinley
and gold; not Bryan and silver.
Bingham Bulletin: Senator Teller and
all of the great silver leaders entered
their protests against the fusion of Nc
kinley Republicans and silver Republi-
cans such as has been effected in Utah,
and predict disaster as the result. In a
couple of weeks we shall know whether
they are true prophets Because the Utah
silver Republican state central committee
resigned In favor of the McKinleyites ii
does not follow that they surrendered the
rank and file to the enemy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

Judge Bartlett Trip, well known to
many old-timer Salt Lakers, for many
years one of the leaders of the South
Dakota Democracy and minister to
Austria under the Cleveland admins
tration, has foresworn his allegiance to
the Democracy and Joined the Repub-
lican party. In a long letter defining
his position he gives as his chief reason
for going over to the Republicans his
dislike of the Chicago platform. 1t is
a case of another good man gone
Wrnnp u
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

Talk about Mckinley prosperity! The
other day a man was arrested in this
town for vagrancv, and when he went
court he drove there in a barouche.
Beggars may not ride in Salt Lake
City, but it would seem that Migrants
do
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

Destiny is duty" says President Nc
Kinley. Then he probably thinks that
he can very properly say: 81 done my
destiny
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

The Impartial, of Madrid, says the
Americans are barbarians. Only little
while ago it said we were pigs. How
inconstant and changeable the Impair
cial isl
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

1t can't be that Postmaster Thomas
wants to go to the senate for the
stamps" for he has them already.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

When Spain makes a warm protest
against anything. let it be remembered
that she IS a hot number.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

Governor Leedy of Kansas wants
power to condemn railroads given the
state. He finds that power to damn
them isn't enough.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

Every time an attempt is made to
reopen the Dreyfus case some ones
fingers get badly caught.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

May the branch normal school at Ce-
dar City become as the cedars of Le-
banon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

Cleveland has a poet named Shorter
The shorter his poems the better.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

The Paris has become liner again,
but not a penny-a-liner by any means.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

The prospects are that Uncle Sam
will become The Old Man of the Sea.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

Levi Letter has bought a locomotive
works. The old MAJ. IS noted for max
ing things go.
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STOCKS AND INVESTMENTS.

Utah Bank and Commercial Stocks, ana
other High Grade investment securities
bought and sold.
Leans on Stocks.
Dividend-paying stocks bought and sold
Investment orders from Institutions,
trustees of estates and capitalists will re-
ceiye the best of attention.
JOHN c. CUTLER. JR.
Tel 127. Sc Main Street
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31
THE UTAH NATIONAL BANK

Capital 49, .-.... ..s2oo,ooo-oo
General Banking Business Transacted
JAMES CHAPMAN, President.
H. w. BROWN, Vice President.
a. B. JONES, Cashier.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-31

Payson Globe-Header: Salt Lake pro-
poses to have a salt palace. Evidently
the metropolis is getting a little too fresh
The Irish standard., 1898-03-12
WEST DULUTH DOINGS.

Mrs. Martin r.. Tins, one of the early
pioneers of West Duluth, died ut her
homo on Sc Tower avenue and Bristol
street, last Wednesday, week, after an
illness of about three weeks. Mrs
Tins was Il kind neighbor, Il devoted
mother and Il true Christian woman. She
leaves Il husband and Il family of five
children to mourn her untimcly DEATH
Tho funeral was held from St. James
church on Friday morning, Father Mac
key officiating. The remains were laid
to rest in Oncot;l cemetery.
James Brothcrton is confined to his
home with an attack Of Ia grippe
Miss Rose Murphy, a clerk in tho post
Office, is taking IL vacation. She is now
visiting with friends in Ashland, Wis
Through the efforts of the business
mems association Of West Duluth, an
other factory will be added to this pur-
ton Of the city. The new enterprise will
he a match factory. There is no reason
why the undertaking should not be a
success as there Is q lot of timber that
goes to waste around sawmills that could
be profitably used for such Il purpose
AS there is no volcano in the city it
would be necessary to have tho sulphur
imported. Our own market provides tho
rest. j. g.