The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-28
GETS INTO THE BANO-WAGON.

When Colonel Pat Lannan, the
widely known editor of the Salt Lake
Tribune" struck an attitude down at
Washington the other day, and prophe-
sled that mckinley is going to succeed
himself" he inadvertently gave his
reason for abandoning the silver fight.
This distinguished hero of thousand
political battles as fierce as ever were
described by the original Falstaff, is
DESTROYS of naught so much as getting
into the swim.
Three years ago when his personal
organ made the solemn prediction that
no man nominated on a platform like
that adopted at st. Louis could be
elected president. or, if elected, that the
people would vote his administration a
failure within two years, and, in any
event, that the Republican party would
fall to pieces of its own innate rotten
ness before the expiration of three
years, our militant contemporary i'm
agined it was shouting on the winning
side.
Now that the three years are up and
Mckinley is in the saddle, and Hannas
corruption fund shows no sign of weak
ening, and trusts are forming to cast
their influence with the party that
nourished them and enabled them to
grow arrogant and powerful, "the
widely known editor" informs his east.
ern hackers that he is ready to climb
into the band-wagon and ride in the
goldbug procession. He has been con-
WINGED that Mckinley is going to sue
coed himself" and, unlike the equally
illustrious Henry Clay, this newly COM
missioned colonel in the army of gold
and monopoly would rather be on the
winning side than be right.
From reading the recent interviews of
some of these especially blatant devo-
tees of silver, those who shouted them
selves hoarse for free coinage when
they hoped to gain some local advan-
tage by it, or fondly believed their par
ty would adopt the issue. one is remind
ed of the old-time adventures of the
Sir Walter Raleigh type. Like sailors
they had lass in every port, and these
returning goldbugs are fully as tickle.
OF a sudden they have become COM
mercial optimists; they are moving to
strike out their predictions of ruin and
disintegration, to insert in lieu thereof
a statement of entire satisfaction with
the present administration-singl stan
dard, robber tariff, trust protection,
embalmed beef and all.
1.-The free silver issue is dead" says
the colonel in his Washington inter-
view. 1T has been eliminated as a
living factor in the politics of the
day"
With what unutterable sorrow he
must have gazed upon the grave of Sill
yer which the goldbugs have been dig
ging for three long years. With what
he must have Joined in the
obsequies that have been a continuous
on the Atlantic coast since
inaugural ball. How his
soul must have poured forth in its an
guish as between sitting signs and
choking sobs he raised his voice in the
requiem that Hanna's choir has never |
ceased to sing.
Gayety and merriment are banished |
from our neighbours holy of HOLES. The |
Heath of silver must fill its lightest cor |
lers with a tomb-like gloom. The sill |
yer chord is loosed and the golden VOW |
S taken; our neighbor goeth to its old |
nome and the mourners go about the |
streets.
For Colonel Pat Lannan, the widely
Known editor has clambered into the
,and-wagon, and Hanna's whip has
tracked.