The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-29
ONE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

There is but one Republican party
organization. Its official head is Mark
! Hanna. He was chosen chairman Of
the national Republican committee
and still retains that important posi-
ton, in spite of the ugly charges pre-
ferred against him by the legislature
of Ohio.
| Republicans may refuse to permit
Chairman Hanna to interfere in state
campaigns, but they must not forget
that each county organization is part
of the state organization, and that each
! state organization is a part of the ma
tional organization.
There is but one Republican party in
the nation, and but one in the state of
Utah. The silver Republican" fac
ton has been disbanded by its author
lied officials, and the action is APP
proved by the organs of that faction.
All Republicans who supported
Bryan, who held aloof from the regu-
lar Republicans and refused to affiliate
with those who stood upon the st.
Louis platform, are now compelled to
make a choice.
Their local organization has van
| ished. They must join a party or be
classed as "foaters." Some will doubt
less follow those leaders who never in
tended to cut loose from the party of
Hanna entirely back into the Repub
lican fold. Others, not warped by par
tisan prejudice or influenced by per-
sonal likes and dislikes, will cast about
for some party pledged to the princi
pies they consider paramount.
No sincere friend of free coinage viii
give its enemies aid and comfort. No
honest advocate of the double stand
ard can afford to be caught in the uni
form of the single standard army. No
real silver man will allow prejudice,
pique or personal disappointment to
drive him into the goldbug camp.
1t is not enough for a man to say:
Il am on the side of the goldites to
fight for tariff. l am not here to fight
the Democrats on account of their sill
yer platform, but because of their rev.
enue tariff IDEAS
AS well might an American don the
Spanish uniform and claim that he
didn't purpose to fight United States
soldiers with both the sword and car
bine, and try to justify himself by
throwing the sword away.
The great mass of silver's friends
who formerly belonged to the Repub-
lican party are joining the Democracy.
Some are aligning themselves with the
Populists. Those who go back TO the
Republican party, who take their place
in the goldbug ranks, find plenty of eX-
cuses for doing So no doubt. Men who
desire to do a thing are generally able
to find or make some excuse. 1t is SO
in business, in society and in politics.
Some will claim that the tariff is
they prefer to work for silver in a gold
standard organization; others that all
are silver men" anyhow, whether
they support goldite candidates and
platforms or not; others that they hate
the Democrats so bad they would fuse
with anybody to beat them; others
that the Democrats refused to allow
them to name the ticket. and still
others that some Democratic county
OTIlcldl discharged hepuDlicdn STEM
ographer.
The excuses are varied, numerous
and ridiculous. But the man who is
on record for silver, and joins an or
ganization of which Mark Hanna is the
national head, needs all the excuses he
can study up, and more. He doesn't
need them for the public particularly,
but for himself. He isn't going to
fight the Democratic party with his
gold sword and tariff gun; he doesn't
expect to use the sword at all, unless,
of course, he gets excited in the heat
of battle; but he intends to use that
gun for all he is worth while his com
rades use both.
After revolving this proposition over
and over in his head awhile. the aver
age Utah Republican, as the party is
now constituted, ought to be able to
get a good nights rest.