The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-21
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK
FORMER is vEERING TOWARD
THE M'KINLEY REPUBLICANS.
Hartman Says That Next Democratic
National Convention Will Reatirm
the Chicago Platform, and Add
Thereto Strong Anti-imperial-
istic PLANK; Also Declaration
Against Trusts.
Especial Correspondence


Rocky Mountain region toward The
Democratic party in the next presiden-
tial election is sharply at issue between
two of the most prominent of the bolt
ers from Mckinley in 1896. Both ex-
Senator Lee Mantle and ex-Congress-
man Charles S. Hartman are in the
city, and authorized interviews with
| them appearing almost simultaneously
in the local press, show a radical diff
| ference of opinion upon this important
question.
In Montana, where both the gentle
men live, and where their opposite
course since 1896 is known, their di-
vergence on the subject will not be at
all surprising, and it will be somewhat
discounted in the other Rocky Noun
tain states. But in the east ex-senator
Mantle's attitude is already being
freely claimed as an evidence of the
certain disintegration of the silver
forces. This, too, Notwithstanding it
is well known in Washington that SEN
ator Mantle had been veering toward
the Mckinley Republicans for two
years before his retirement from the
senate, and had supported the Dinghy
tariff bill in that BODY.
| 1t is, however not generally known
that he openly opposed the Democratic
ticket in Montana last fall, although
the vast majority of the silver Repub-
| licans stood Loyalty by the successful
Democratic ticket.
Two Different Views.
Congressman Hartman's attitude was
also we'll known in the capital, and it
has been thoroughly understood that
he is an intense believer in the Demo-
cratic alliance. But the sacrifice he
made in his own state in refusing TO
run on the Mantle silver Republican
state ticket against the Democratic
candidate for congress was less widely
known.
this time has served to invite atten-
ton to the probable attitude of the
silver Republicans of the country in
the next campaign 1t has also brought
into new prominence the two mountain
state politicians who dropped out of
public life very suddenly, but from
wholly different causes, in 1898.
Extracts from the two interviews
have heretofore appeared, but owing to
the interest which they have caused in
the east, they will repay publication in
full. 1t should be understood that
these interviews We're not controversial
in character, but were expressions of
opinion given reporters of different
newspapers. Therefore, the personal
differences between them in local poll
tics played no part in these statements.
Ex-senator Mantle gave his views
to the Post. He was asked:
do you think Mr.. Bryan will be the
nominee of the Democracy in 1902"
Looks Like Bryan.
Yes, it looks that way he replied.
''but no one can tell what may develop
between this time and the national
conventions. 1t may be that these later
questions will overshadow the issues OF
1896. At any rate, if it should come tc
the point of standing by the govern
ment in it's prosecution of a war that
it did not seek, millions of patriotic
Americans will lose sight of ordinary
issues and vote to uphold the policy
that only seeks the maintenance of our
national honor and prestige. There are
bound to be new political alignments,
anyway, in the next campaign Thou
sands who went with Mr.. Bryan before
will be glad of an excuse to oppose him
next time, and will urge his anti-eX-
pansion views as reason. Some DEM
ocrats who left him in SO will, for that
same reason, and because they want to
get back in the party, declare in his
favor.
MY impre ssion of southern senti
ment," he continued, lis that it is de-
cidedly in favor of the expansion pol
icy. / noticed that Bourbon Democratic
newspapers of that section were out
spoken in advocacy of our retaining
territory taken from Spain. Though
they are loyal to Bryan and free silver
they are not with him in his opposi-
ton to imperialism, so-called.
Will Be No Alliance.
I'm the west one thing is certain;
there will be no more alliance of silver
Republicans with Democrats. The help
that was given by the silver Republi-
cans in past campaigns will not be
Forthcoming, and all talk of fusion in
the future is idle. The Democrats well
coined the silver Republicans as allies
in close states, but in states where they
secured the ascendency, repudiated
them in the most contemptuous man.
ner. The men who received this treat
ment are not likely to put themselves
in position to experience it again. and
whatever the Democrats hope to ac-
complish in states like Montana ana
Utah, they will have to achieve without
the aid of any other party"
Ex-Congressman Hartman'S views
were given to a reporter for the Wash
ington Star, who asked him what there
was in the report of silver Republican
disaffection for Bryan.
Il presume" he replied, the rumor
to which you refer of the objection of
former Republicans who have followed
Mr. Teller since the St. Louis conven-
ton to the nomination of Mr.. Bryan
has about as much foundation in fact
as the ordinary newspaper canard
They are probably published with the
deliberate intention of misrepresenting
and deceiving, and the public who, in
the language of Barnum, delight Ito be
swallow them ravenously
and believe them to be true. AS a mat
ter of fact. if it were left to the silver
who bolted the st. Louis
and who have been largely
in shaping the course of
that party since that convention to
nominate the next presidential candi-
date. | have no doubt that, by an over
vote, Mr.. Bryan would be
Will Reaffirm Chicago Platform.
There is but little doubt in my mind
that the next national Democratic con-
vention will reaffirm the Chicago plat
form in its entirety and add thereto
a strong anti-imperialistic plank. The
three most prominent features in the
platform, in my judgment, will be. first
its declaration on the money question,
which will include a reaffirmation of
the Chicago platform, a declaration for
bimetallism, against the
of the greenbacks, against
bonds. and against
TO the banks the right to
issue or control the issue of paper
money. Second, strong declaration
against trusts; and, third, anti-impe-
rialism-- These three subjects will
doubtless present in their order the
principal issues i'll the campaign of
1900.