The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-02

When the sun rises tomorrow morn
ing, the campaign of 1898, as far as
relates to the Democracy of Utah and
! Salt Lake county, will have opened in
earnest. State headquarters will be
running in good shape, and county
headquarters will be all completed.
every detail for the plan Of campaign
perfected, and all the machinery pun
| ming smoothly.
Fred Leonard has been secured by the
committee to attend to many of the de-
tails of the work. Fred is q. thorough
organizer, and man who understands
perfectly well the machinery of poll
| tics. In old days he was a tower OF
strength to the party with which he
was identified, and the knowledge he
then acquired will be Of great service
! to the Democrats now.
In addition to Mr.. Leonard other val
liable Democrats have proffered their
assistance, and with such men as Hon.
James H Moyle and Benjamin 7.
Lloyd at the helms of the state and
county committees, there is no reason
whatever why vigorous campaign,
with victory for an apex, should not
be conducted.
The signs of the times all presage
Democratic victory. The opposition is
to apologize for its existence. 1t claims
to be for silver, but that claim has no
basis whatever All the silver plank
was adopted for was for the catching
of votes and the people understand the
situation perfectly. The national Dem
ocratic party is pledged to bimetallis1n-
The Republicans are against it.
By the way, ex-Chairman John Z.
Dooly is doing a little missionary work.
Mr. Dooly is a banker and gold
man. Under cover of Wells-Fargo' s
envelopes an address by John ]. Val
entine, president of the Bankers asso
citation of California, is being sent out
to the Democratic candidates, an eX
tract of which is here given, capitals
and all:
I'm conclusion: Under date of Aug.
29 the press dispatches from New York
reported as follows:
" Members of Democratic committees
in Is states in the south and west en-
phatically endorse the remarks made
by Ex-Governor Stone of Missouri to
the effect that Bryan will be renomin-
ated in 1900, and that the issue of the
campaign will be the free coinage of
silver
I'VE may as we'll prepare promptly
and theoretically to meet this threat
ened onslaught of the advocates of
free silver-in other words, of fiatism.
1.-The monetary standard-the stand
ard of value-of this country and of
the commercial world is GOLD, and the
experience of the United States in the
past two years has fully indicated
THE GOLD STANDARD"
The Republican bankers realize that
the Democracy is pledged to the resto-
ration of bimetallism, and seek already
to prepare for the inevitable fight. For
party purposes they may adopt sill
yer plank here in Utah, but it is a vote
catcher, that is all. When the Republi-
cans meet in 1900 they will declare I'M
equivocally for the gold standard, and
when the Democrats meet they will
declare unequivocally for bimetallism.
That is going to be the issue, and the
battle this fall is but the skirmish
which is to come two years later on.
Every inch of ground gained by either
will be held for that event. In the
judgment of all good Democrats moth
ing should be surrendered this fall. Let
there be an advance and the main
struggle will be easier to win.