The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-12
TAKES ANOTHER STEP.

Simultaneous with Colonel p. Hanna
Lannan's second trip TO Washington
this season his personal organ comes
cut fat-footed in its denunciation of
William Jennings Bryan. Last April,
when the widely-known editor basked
in the sunshine of Hanna's presence,
mis- newspaper discovered that lit is
useless to make another stand for sill
yer in this country until conditions
change" Now il says:
with every ''anti' in the land from Ed
ward Atkinson to Senator Mason. from
the Springfield Republican 10 The Salt
Lake Herald. and mas been the chiefest
source of announcement to ASuinaldo d
Co.. and the American people Will never
elect a president of that kind.
This needs a little revision. 1t was
evidently written in anger. We all
know that the Tribune has severed all
connection with the silver cause. that
its wideIy-knowns editor is Hanna's To-
cal chief, that it is as far from Bryan
as is any ''venal newspaper in the en-
ploy of the great corruptionist"-th
description of anti-Bryan organs is
original with the local Republican or
gan. But it cannot get away from its
own files; it cannot deny its own utter
ances.
Colonel Bryan is not anti-silver, nor
anti-constitution, Tor anti-war, nor
anti-Mormon. He not only advocated
a war for the liberation of Spanish sub
jects, but enlisted in the cause of their
independence. He was ready and will
ing to go to the front. while his de-
tractors - Hanna's hirelings - were
stabbing him in the back. He remains
loyal to silver, which accounts for the
fact that the Salt Lake Tribune and
other Republican newspapers persist in
maligning and misrepresenting him,
first by innuendo and then with undis-
guised malice.
William Jennings Bryan has never
advocated the withdrawal of the army
from the Philippines, and the Tribune
knows it. The men who want the army
withdrawn before peace and order are
established are goldbugs of national
prominence. But Mr.. Bryan does not
believe that our form of government
is adapted 10 Oriental peoples who
know nothing OF American institutions
and care less for them; he doesn't want
our form of government changed TO
suit 100000 Malays: he protests
against bringing millions of coolie la
borers into direct competition with
American workmen; he demands that
the money wasted in the densely popu-
lated isles of the China sea be expended
in the reclamation of the arid west.
And he believes that peace and order
could have been established long ago
by one word from the president giving
to the Filipinos the same assurance he
gave the CUbans.
Let us see who las encouraged Aguin-
aldo 1t was the Salt Lake Tribune
that called him second George Wash
ington; that held the cause of the in
surgents TO be Infinitely higher than
that in which our revolutionary fore
fathers were engaged between 1775 and
1852; that assured the Tagals that our
troops were merely their allies; that
informed its readers that We were I'M
der lasting obligations to ASuin2ido and
his troops for the part they played in
holding the point gained ny Dewey.
Lincoln was bitterly opposed to the
Mexican war. but he WAS twice elected
president after that. Grover Cleveland
had no sympathy with the civil war
and his name appears twice upon the
roll of presidents. IL the Sal. Lake
Tribune can put in twenty years Ge-
nouncing the men who now control this
government and their financial policies
and still rest its head Upon -fark Han
mas bosom, why shoIld it thi,.k shat
the open opposition &c a party aver
sary TO the politicians IN power would
consign an honest opponent TO a pc
litical grave?