The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-12
MASKS OF REPUBLIcANisM


1 The Sleeps clothing IS that deceptive
silver resolution which the present
state chairman, the county chairmen,
4 the state candidates and most of the
county candidates, repudiated over two
years ago.
They have a poor opinion of the in
! telligence of Utah people if they mag
inc the deception is going to work. 1t
/ is entirely too transparent; that sheep
skin has been put on and off too many
times; the wolf has outgrown the COW
ering. There is no hope for silver in
the Republican party.
The Republican organ knows this.
Still it slurs the silver platform of
Democracy, takes up the goldbug cry
that nothing will come of the fight the
Democratic party is making for free
! coinage, and meanly intimates that the
next platform will oppose bimetallism.
There never was a Democratic national
4 platform that declared for the single
standard Individual Democrats have
had their views and have Gone
the cause of silver harm. But the party
| has renowned them in the nation and
/ in the state. Republicans have openly
and persistently and viciously and Sc
cretly, and in every other way fought
free coinage. The first murdereus blow
was struck in 1873, during a RepubH-
can administration, when both
branches of congress were under Re
publican control.
Since that time goldbugs developed
4 in both parties, but every vote in con-
gress has shown the majority of Demo-
Gratis to favor free coinage measures,
while in every instance the majority
of the Republicans in either house We're
against such measures. In 1896 the cri-
sis was reached. Both parties declared
themselves; the Democrats with the
masses and the Republicans with. the
classes. just as they had ever been
aligned on other issues. 1t was not
believed that the Republican party
! would survive its shameless prostitu-
ton to the lust of gold. But it did. 1t
Haunted its degradation in the face of
the American public, and triumphed
to their cost and shame. The Republi-
can organ Of this city made the fol-
lowing prediction just before the St.
Louis convention was held:
IF Mr.. Mckinley, or Mr.. Morton, or
Mr.. Reed, or any other man is nomin-
ated on a gold platform in ST. Louis,
and elected, there is nothing clearer
than that 1T WILL RESULT IN THE
ABSOLUTE DISINTEGRATION OF
THE PARTY WITHIN THE NEXT
] FOUR YEARS"
/ Instead OF that prediction coming
true, the organ is doing its best to pre-
vent it's realization. 1t has returned to
the Republican ranks with hangdog
! air, determined to do its part to prevent
the disintegration it threatened, claim
ing as an excuse: The Democrats
| didn't reward US as much as We think
we deserved; they failed to appreciate
US, and so we are back with the gold
bugs looking for any alliance to beat
! the Democrats out of their boots; it
| wasn't a question of principle so much
as one of. reward" All who feel that
way are back in the regular organiZa-
ton.
Well, the st. Louis convention was
held; it nominated MIR. Mckinley on a
gold platform" The organ was tenn
porariIy displeased, and said:
1T is unnecessary to say that the
Tribune is very much worried over the
result We will not say disappointed.
because we know something about the
power of newspapers and of money, and
both have been used without stint to
blind the eyes of the people in the east
on the vital question of the day"
And again, on the same page. our Re
publican contemporary said:
We will not pretend to say what will
be or ought to be. 1t. is enough for to-
day to say that THE WRITER OF
THIS ARTICLE WILL NEVER
STULTIFY THE WORK OF MORE
THAN TWENTY YEARS BY AC-
CEPTING SUCH A PLATFORM OR
ANY CANDIDATE NOMINATED ON
SUCH a PLATFORM"
Bah! The author of that assertion is
now, two years later, supporting a Nc
| Kinley Republican on a platform that
endorses every policy put forth and
| advocated by President Mckinley" The
fact that the organ spoke for that day
only shields its present position to a
certain extent, but shows the we'll
founded misgivings it had concerning
it's own mind and stability of character.
But how emphatic it was then! In an
other last performance announce
ment it said:
1--WE simply wish to have it under
j stood that personally the writer Of this
article will never support again in all
his life a gold candidate On a gold
platform, NO NATTER WHAT
PARTY MAY PRESENT HIM, OR
WHAT HIS CLAIMS ON GENERAL
PRINCIPLES MAY BE, for the suf-
frage of the American people,
Then it told how corrupt the Repub-
lican party had become, going back as
far as 1873, showing an intimate knowl-
edge of details that could not have
been acquired after the St Louis af-
fair, and must have been known, there
fore, to the organ during all the years
of its support. 1t depicted the power
of gold and the abject slavery of Re.
publicans, and gave the Democrats this
warning:
I'VE give the Democrats notice that
if money can compass the defeat of
the silver candidate on the silver plat
form at Chicago, the money will be
forthcoming"
1t put on sackcloth and ashes. re-
fused TO be comforted, and couldn't