The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-06
AN APPEAL FOR FUSION.

man Lippman. Senator Cannon is for
fusion. and his letter is one long appeal
in behalf of it; it is more grandiloquent
than convincing. When Senator Can
non says that the silver Republicans
are the real guardians of the old Re-
publican faith" he surely takes the po-
sition Of the Indian who said: Wick
iup lost. Injun all right" He says that
the faith of the silver Republicans
has been known by various names,
and its advocates have had many po-
litical designations" A very unstable
and vacillating body, then, must the
advocates of this faith have been
We heartily agree with what is said
about the declaration of the st. Louis
convention in 1896, that it was in re-
atty for the establishment and perpet-
uation of the single gold standard in
our finances" Such has been the con-
tention of The Herald from the very
day the declaration was made. Sena-
tor Cannon never spoke truer words
than these:
All the phraseology of the plank on
the money question which seemed to
modify this purpose WAS but a conces-
sion TO secure votes and was not in
| tehded by the controllers of that con-
/ Nention To HAVE ANY PRACTICAL,
EFFECT upon any future action of the
party In a PERU NCTORY WAY
an apparent effort was made to secure
| INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT
through the services of a commission
which was sesd abroad under the APP
| pointment Of President Mckinley. But
II was well known in Washington that
Of fEp s=es...
be tas 1t undoubtedly has been) dis
counted and disoredited by the utter
! ances of the secretary of the treas
! ury, and by the lack of cooperation
/ or the MINISTERS and ambassadors of
! the United States and Europe. Indeed,
the very declaration of the platform
! foredoomed the commission to failure;
since the platform declared for the
maintenance of the existing gold
Standard until d change could be pro-
! cured by International agreement, and
{ 1t is we'll known that an international
! agreement for bimetallism cannot be
| secured with England as party there
TO so long as We can be induced to
maintain the single gold standard.
Now as to the,questicn of fusion. It
| is said that bimecallie candidate
must have the corporation of all who
believe in free silver if he is to sue
coed in 1900 and that the battle of 1898
is but a preparation for that of 1900
1t is further said that the question is
not a local. but a national one. One
reason the Democrats of Utah are so
averse to any fusion this year is be-
cause of the very unsatisfactory re-
suits of a partial fusion in 1896. The
dissatisfaction resulted from fusion on
local matters, and it is on local mat
tiers that fusion would have to be made
this year. The Populist members of
the legislature were continually press
ing Populistic measures, a very nat
ural thing; fortunately they were so
few that their efforts amounted to
nothing. Now. legislature is to be
elected this year. Surprising it were
composed of one-tAird Democrats, one
third silver Republicans, one-sixth Re
publicans and oRe-sixth POpulists, does
any one question that each party would
do all in its power to put its political
ideas on ali subjects into the form of
legislation? Democrats would Very
soon find that the other three parties |
were Co-operating' against them TO
place laws on the statute book that |
they would deem subversive of the very I
foundation principles of government /
The legislature would cooperate" 20 !
this extent-that a silver man would I
be sent to the senate; but that would /
be certain whether the legislature We're /
Democratic silver Republican or Pop /
uiist. a mixed Legislature where there !
could only be a coalition ma
jority would be absolutely GER
tain to engender personal and political |
animosities that the interests of no |
cause could smother or keep down. The |
same thing would occur in county Of
fees, for "co-operation" means di-
VISION OF offices in the present no mat
ter what the object of the future
might be. "Co-operation' would have
to do with the election of a United
States senator How would "co-opera-
ton work when it comes to electing
a member of the supreme court? The
Democrats have 70 member of that
court, and they are anything but
pleased with the strongly centralizing
tendencies OF the court; they think
there is danger of this state being over
burdened with judge-made laws. Sill
yer Republicans as well as Republicans
find no objection in such law
1t is said this question Of "co-opera-
ton" is not local but national, yet it
touches most intimately local questions
of the greatest Importance. a silver
senator from Utah being assured. why
should not each party strive to make
its principles dominate IN the state, for
the state must be governed in accord
ance with the ideas Of some political
party We believe the most certain
way 10 defeat union of the silver
forces III 1900 when a president is to
be elected, is to try and bring about a
fusion in 1885,
And now a few words on the address
of the committee. 1t assumes that the
party in whose behalf it is put forth
has virtue much superior to that
possessed by any other party. The
claim is hardly tenable The address
says:
And for many specious reasons even
themselves, in a few To-
calities, have been led to believe that
cooperation was unnecessary and I'M .
desirable Most important among {
these false reasons has been the I'M
Just teaching that party is dearer than ,
principle, that the great reform may
safely be made an incident of PARTISAN {
ship and personal ambition. and that
old differences and individual hatreds
In politics must be nursed even at the J
expense Of the great cause.
Who has been teaching that party
Is dearer than principla2 When a