La Junta tribune., 1899-05-03
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Judge Goodwin, OF the Salt Lake
Tribune. Utah had about the
same experience with fusion leg
islature as Colorado had, and that
with various other things has
caused Judge Goodwin to modify
his views to some extent. In a re-
cent editorial in the Salt Lake
TRIBUNE he expressed himself in
part as follows:
"Afairs. politically, are in
transition state. Mr.. Bryan and
his friends are seeking to realign
their forces along the old entrench.
ments of 1896. Whether they sue
ceed or not is doubtful. Whether
if they do succeed they have
prospect of winning next year has
not yet been determined. Senator
Teller says the silver republicans
he believes are still as true as they
were in 1896 to the cause which
they held and hold as most essen
tial to the best interests OF the
American people. We believe
that Senator Teller is mistaken.
We know OF no one who was sill
yer man in earnest in 1896 who IS
not now, but we know the feeling
OF silver men in Colorado, in Utah,
in Idaho, in Nevada and Montana.
"Silver men who all their lives
were republicans until 1896 gave
up for the time being the principles
OF a lifetime to support what
seemed to them a most vital ques-
ton. But they do not.feel as they
did in 1896, for the reason that IN
each one OF these states named the
democracy has demonstrated that
so far as they are concerned they
are hardly capable OF self-govern-
ment, to say nothing about govern
ing this nation. We defy any hon.
est man TO point to what the
democracy has done in Utah since
they won their great triumph IN
1896, to give ordinary people en-
couragement TO believe that il
they had full power in the nation
they would even desire to do the
right thing by the people. 1t is
party seeking chiefly petty spoils.
and il would take very brave man
to recommend men who have all
their lives been republicans to sup
port their ticket.
"Our judgment is that il is use
less to make another stand for sill
yer in this country until conditions
change. We have drawn an undue
proportion OF the worlds wealth to
this country during the last TWO
years, with the result that there IS
not a country in Europe that is not
distressed now for money and in
serious trouble, and our idea is
that as things are tending at pres
ent, the reconciliation OF silver
will have to come from the nations
OF Europe. We do not believe II
will come from any other source,
unless again the farmers products
leave him no profits, for the Amer
lean farmer between the crest Of
the Alleghenies and the crest of
the Rockies is peculiar animal.
When he is starving at home and
mortgage is pressing upon him he
is a good silver man. Just as soon
as he gets fair price for one crop,
then he takes high moral ground
and thinks it would be cheat to
force "5o-cent dollars" upon this
country.
1--WE know not, of course, what
the next twelve months will bring
about, but if the campaign was on
to-day and the election was to come
in November, if there is anything
in the signs of the times at all,
Mr.. Bryan would lose full million
OF the votes that he polled in 1896,
and the opposition would poll T.
500, 900 more than it polled in
1896"
rsin tsks Trouble Probably Solved.