The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-31

pocrisy upon our neighbours whine
when he said that "the hope of silver
is in the Democratic party" And Fred
Dubois has spoken too. On the very
day that our neighbor, like Marc An
tony, held his mantle up and put its
finger in the rents and appealed TO sill
yer Republicans to fly with it to the
goldbug camp for revenge, Mr.. Dubois,
speaking to the people of the United
States through the Associated Press,
was saying:
The persistent statement made by the
Republican press. that silver is a dead
issue. is the expression of their wish,
Bryan in 1896 will support him again I'M
less they have some special reason for
not doing so. There will not be many
who will abandon principles deliberately
adopted, for personal or special reasons.
Those are the words of Fred Dubois
of Idaho. When P. H. Lannan said in
Washington the other day that the
silver issue is Dead" he expressed a
wish, but did not state a fact. When
his personal organ said that it is no
use to work for silver until conditions
change it merely expressed its wish, as
the ex-senator from Idaho aptly puts it.
And when the widely known editor
declared recently that silver has been
eliminated as a living issue from the
politics of the day. it was his wish.
''Those who supported Bryan in 1896
viii support him again unless they have
some special reason for not doing so.'
Mr.. Lannan has a special reason, no
doubt, for turning his back on Bryan
and declaring that his abilities have
been overestimated.
And we desire to call our contempo-
rary's attention especially to these fur
Their remarks of the gentleman from
Idaho, whose name it has used to cover
up its own backsliding, its desertion of
a cause that it evidently cares as little
for as it does for the dominent church.
1t will flirt with either when it will
further some selfish end. Mr.. Dubois
says:
The issues in 1900 will be the same as in
1896, only intensified and more clearly de-
fined, and the candidates for president
ported by the aggregation of wealth and
all it represents. Mr.. Bryan will be sup
ported by the reform forces.
That is the secret of it. 1.-The aggrega-
ton of wealth and all it represents" are
capable of reaching out and gathering in
all who are so envious of millionaires
that they covet riches they were never
able to accumulate. Mr.. Dubois says
again:
So far as the silver Republicans are
concerned, they are interested in the
success of the principles which they
supported in the Chicago platform, and
Bryan has not changed and the Chicago
platform will be re-adopted.
The union of the Democrats and sill
yer Republicans will be more complete
and harmonious in 1860 than ever be-
fore, and everything points to a victory
of the reform forces.
There is no dislntegration of the silver
Republicans except in the visions of those
who wish the success of the gold stand
ard. trust controlled, imperialistic Re
publican party.
Evidently the ex-senator does not be-
lieve in asking Europe for financial
policy for this republic. Evidently he
is not convinced of the death of silver.
Evidently he considers, it worth while
to make another stand for silver in this
country whether conditions change or
not. We shall be pleased to hear from
our contemporary further in reference
to the gentleman from Idaho.