The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-26
HANNA's PROGRAMME.

w fitu SILVER was QtlllOucllZcu III 1910
under a Republican administration.
when the executive and both branches
of the legislative departments of gov
eminent were in the hands of the Re-
publican party. it was a wrong so in
famous, crime so cowardly and I'M
natural that the men who planned it
denied the intention of doing what was
done, although no effort to right the
wrong was ever successful
Every vote that was ever taken On
the silver question in our national con-
gress has shown a large majority of
Republicans opposed TO binetallism and
a decided majority of Democrats in
favor of it But this was long before
it was made party issue: it was be-
fore the tenet of a single gold stand
ard was tremendously and solemnly in
corporated into the Republican
articles of faith; before a be-
lief in gold was made the
test of a mans Republcanism; before
the Democratic party repudiated the
single standard of gold and all its adj
herents, and made devotion TO bimetal-
lism a condition of Democratic support
and confidence.
In 1896 the issue was clearly defined.
The Republican party took the side of
gold; the Democratic party declared
unequivocally for the double standard.
regardless of the wishes of London
bankers or the actions Of foreign pow
ers. Upon that question the parties
went before the people. But the Repub-
lican party, aided by a treacherous
Democratic administration by every
trust and goldbug money baron in the
land, encouraged by the financial pow
ers of the old world. succored by cor
ruption and championed by coercion,
won the first battle of the standards.
To do so Mr.. Hanna's party found it
necessary to deceive a great many BIZ
metallists by holding out to them the
highly-colored, hand-painted artificial
rainbow of hope for international agree
ment, at one end of which a disap-
pointed people have sought in vain for
a fuifillment of promises, while at the
other end, which rests in the national
treasury, bankers, brokers. spectators
and water gamblers, revel in the ma
TONS gold.
There meyer was any intention on the
part of the Republican party 10 right
the wrong of 1873, or to make an hon
est effort TO secure an International
agreement for a bimetallic standard.
The report of the commission appointed
by parliament to investigate the money
system of India shows that while Pres
ident Mckinley conformed to the law,
passed before his Inauguration, by send
ing a committee abroad, the admins
tration was doing everything in its
power to discredit the mission on which
the committee was sent
Two years ago, just after the VOL
colt commission had reported its fail
! ure, the silver Republicans of Utah,
through there regular organization, put
out an address to- the voters of the
state in which they said:
I'VE point to the fact that the ma
tional Republican party of the United
States has abandoned the cause of BIZ
metallisn, ana that local adherence to
the national Republican organization is
affiliating with gold recommendation and
oppression or the people.
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True, some so-called silver men have
gone over to the goldbug camp-de-
sorting the cause of silver upon one
preteXt or another. or yielding to the
temptation of inducements such as only
the money powers can offer. but the
leaders are true, and the rank and file
will stand with them and believe as
they do so long as the silver problem
remains unsolved.
At Washington City the other day
the following named gentlemen got to-
gether and issued an address to men
who call themselves Republicans but
still believe in the free and unlimited
coinage of silver-those who remain
loyal to principle and have not de-
serted to the enemy:
Charles A. Towne. Henry NJ. Teller,
r. F. Pettigrew, Frank ]. Cannon, Ed
gar Wilson, Charles S. Hartman, John
! Shafroth. Fred T. Dubois
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| In the course of that address these
men said: THE passage by the house
| of representatives of the gold standard
and bank currency bill. exactly as
agreed upon by the Republican caucus,
and without the opposition of a single
Republican vote. marks the culmina-
ton of a policy long and carefully pur-
sued by certain influences in control of
the leadership of the Republican party,
and justifies the action of the men who.
/ in 1896. refused to remain in that Or
! ganization after the adoption of the
st. Louis platform"
They quoted the financial plank of
the st. Louis platform and said: TT
| is strange that so manifest an insin-
cerity should have deceived anybody.
] Clearly, if the gold standard was de-
sirable, the free coinage of silver was
undesirable. However, if the gold
standard was right. free coinage must
be wrong. Nobody could intelligently
and honestly demand the international
free coinage of silver and at the same
time express such emphatic satisfaction
with the gold standard as an alterna-
tive"
Furthermore, these silver champions
charged the party in power with insin-
cerity, just as erstwhile silver journals
that "stultified their records of twenty
years" used to do and said:
"As a matter of fact. this declaration
to the speculative banks and their al
lies that the Republican party, if sue
cessful in the election, would proceed