The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-02
NOT FOR ONE CAMPAIGN.

At banquet at Louisville the other
evening Colonel Bryan, referring to
the Chicago platform said:
ut was not written for one campaign.
1t still lives, and it viii oUtlive those who
sit at the table here tonight.
The free coinage Of silver is just as
essential TO this republic as it ever was,
it is lust as necessary to the permanent
prosperity of the people as it ever was.
Men may desert the cause from motives
OF spite or gain, they may join one or
another of the classes that opposed Mr..
Bryan three years ago, but he is still
the champion of independent bimetal-
lism and still the trusted header of the
Democratic party.
The Chicago platform will be re-
affirmed. That was decided upon at
the national conference of Democrats
last week. It was not written for one
campaign, although a few pretended
friends of the white metal claim that
the silver issue has been eliminated as
a living factor from the politics of the
day.
1T still lives. and it will outlive"
those who are shedding crocodile tears
over the grave Mark Hanna dug to re-
ceive it months and months ago.
Everything seems to indicate that
BRYAN will be the Democratic candi-
date in the next campaign, that the
issues will be the same as they were in
1886. and that he will be opposed by
the same influences. Our morning con-
temporary said of the fight he made
before that he had to strive
Against nearly the entire press Of the
Against nearly all the so-caIled states
men and orators of both the old parties
Against every corporation, every great
trust nearly every bank and insurance
company of the east.
Against nearly every officer OF every
railroad of the east.
Against the most lavish and unscruDu-
Ious use of money ever seen in any cleo
ton.
There have been a few changes, how
ever To the entire press of the east
will be added an occasional organ in
the west that has seen the great light
that Hanna keeps burning in the win
dow for wandering followers who never
had any intention OF remaining away
from him a considerable length of time.
But this loss viii ind its compensation
in the great numbers of Democrats who
were frightened away by the false cry
of fifty cent dollar but are now
convinced that it was all a bugaboo
like the old protection scare of ''pauper
labor
The banks, trusts, and political bosses
are still opposed to Bryan and BIZ
metallism and they are generally found
together, and some distance away from
the masses. And the INSCRIPTIONS use
of money to injure Bryan and convince
people that international bimetallism is
the only kind worth having, and that
Bryan's abilities are over estimated, |
and that other issues are predominant
and ali the other decisions with which
eoldbags delight to bewilder the peo-
pie. is just as apparent as it was in
1896
Our neighbor said then that it knew
something about the power of news !
papers 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 the
indications are that they are being used |
in the same way again.
But every true friend OF silver knows.
as Teller knows, as Dubois knows. as
Bryan has said, that the Chicago plat /
form was not written for one CAM
paign." and that silver will continue to !
live while those who are saying now
that il is a dead issue have been laid /
away.