The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-11

suits that they have done through ali
( the centuries
To one who all his life has been an
ardent advocate OF Republican doc
trineS and a firm believer in the almost
infaliibility of the Republican party,
this plain fact comes home with a cruel
force-that the Republican party has
now become the agency through which
danger threatens the republic instead
of the Jove of former days whose
greatest watchcare was the safety OF
her institutions and the prosperity and
I happiness of her people.
/ That gold, or as we OF this country
call it, the money power, has obtained
control of the Republican party there
can be no doubt. When the national
convention met at st. Louis the money
power obtained control by the use of
gold, purchasing the votes of the
colored delegates in a body and intimi-
dating many other delegates who be
! lieved in the righteousness of BIZ
metallism. With these purchased and
intimidated votes they rode roughshod
over those men, the brain and sinew OF
the Republican party. who believe in
| the restoration of silver, and trampled
upon the ones pleading for humanity.
When before had the Republican party
turned deaf ear to the appeal made
in behalf of suffering, toiling human
convention, by reason OF the ascend
ency of the brutal money power, work
ed new era IN the history of the Re-
publican party. An that new era, the
era of gold recommendation, of money
ascendency, of trust protection and OF
absolute disregard for the rights of
the toiling masses of the people, has
been employed in every move made
since then. The Dingley bill, that
monstrous travesty upon the doctrine
of protection, was passed in order that
the trusts might be rewarded, and in
the attainment of that end the people
were again disregarded and their in
terests sceffed at.
Not content, the controlling power of
the present Republican party is hound
ing the men who had the courage and
manhood to stand by the former prin-
ciples of that party and is seeking TO
wreak its revenge upon them. 1t seems
that the controlling money power has
determined to destroy all honest public
men who dare oppose 1t. The Sugar
trust with its allied and sister trusts
is in control. and while this trust with
s12 000, goo invested pays dividends on
S73, 900, 600 and its stock is quoted at
$40 it is seeking further legislation to
increase its already enormous profits;
but not even a sop to the toiler.
It seems that the controlling money
power has so fully determined upon
the defeat of its opponents that 1t Will
stop at nothing, not even bloodshed
and murder, to accomplish its purpose.
With millions of dollars at it's control it
may buy newspapers in Utah, may buy
parties in Idaho. may hire traitors in
Colorado, and when traitors fail, then
hire thugs and assassins to wreak
bloody vengeance on the men battling
for a principle. The spectacle is ap-
Dalling. To a Lincoln Republican the
situation is full of sorrow and danger;
the idols of the years shattered and
the once powerful foe to oppression and
friend to the people prostituted to be
come the tool of the brutal money
power. the foe to the people and the
friend and agency of oppression
Dangers from within threaten this
republic.