The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-12

lican organs. is that the Tribune has
not only abandoned the fight itself.
but, out of pure kindness, wants its
late comrades in that fight to desert
as we'll. This is the way the local or
gan of Republicanism is understood at
home and away from home. And when
ii says that the same appeal that was
made in 1896 if made again this year
would not receive 20 per cent of the
support it received in Utah and Mon
tana three years ago, it is expressing
wish, as Fred Dubois puts it, instead
of stating a fact
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But our neighbor has hard time
trying to convince its readers that it
still believes in silver although I'M
willing TO make another fight for it.
In all this land there is not a silver
advocate who trusts the Tribune any
more; there is not silver newspaper
but regards our neighbor as traitor
to the cause and has said so, either in
terms of condemna ton or regret.
When the Tribune first discovered
that silver is dead" when it sud .
denly decided that lit is useless to
make another stand for silver in this
country until conditions change" when
it likened the issue of independent BIZ
metallism to a corpse, and renewed its
allegiance to the Hanna organization.
there was great rejoicing in the gold
bug camp.
Behold the prodigal has returned"
they cried as with one voice THE sill
yer forces are disintegrating, admin
istration organs remarked. And they
called upon the wearied and worried
hosts of Hanna to rally once again
around the single standard. The
Omaha Bee welcomed its wandering
brother home and said: Judge Good
win speaks out in meeting; he has no
further use for the fusionists; he has
given up the silver fight as bad job
The Louisville Courier-Journal said
The disintegration of the silver forces
has begun. The venerable editor of the
Salt Lake Tribune, one of the leading
opponents of the Is to / doctrine in the
silver state of Utah. has renounced the
fight and admitted that the only way
to get bimetallism is by international
agreement And it quoted the Tri-
bune surrender in full The New York
Mail and Express remarked that our
neighbor had had its eyes opened and
would henceforth be found among the
champions OF honest money" The Com
mercial Advertiser was glad to note
that the Salt Lake Tribune had come
to realize the utter hopelessness of the
silver cause" and it quoted from the
Tribune's utterances to cheer UP the
followers of Hanna in their assaults
upon Bryan and Organism The New
York Press took fiendish delight in
witnessing the marvellous flop of one
who had always wanted gold men
hanged to telephone poles. The New
york Tribune was pleased to see it's
Salt Lake namesake abandon 1.-The
platform Of Reputation and anarchy"
The st. Louis Democrat ex-
tended both hands in cordial welcome
and made a place upon the st. Louis
platform for our contemporary to be
seated by it's side 1t said that the
Tribune's abandonment of the free sill
yer Iorces would dlShearten them in
the west and that a few more such
assertions would insure undisturbed
permanency to the single gold standard.
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All these organs are again rejoicing
with exceeding great joy over the
Tribune's repeated assurances that it
viii take no further part in the fight for
the restoration of the white metal.
In view of these comments and con-
ditions, these impressions our neighbor
is creating and the sentiments it
voices, what right has it to be heard
in the councils of free coinage men
again? What can they expect but
treachery from such a pretended
friend?
1t was the proud privilege of Salt
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