The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-04
REGARDS THEM AS NoBoDlEs.

| Nobody is talking silver any more"
| says the Tribune. At the same time
Bryan was crossing the continent, max
ing silver speeches to multitudes of en-
thusiastic bimetallists who refuse to
believe that silver is dead or that the
influence of its leading advocate is
waning.
! Nobody is talking silver any more"
| it declares while the Democrats of
eastern states are adopting silver plat
forms stronger than any that were
drafted in 1896.
But why does our contemporary in
sist that nobody is talking silver any
more, when it knows better? Simply
to mislead a number of silver Repub-
licans who are anxious to know why it
has renowned the principle and aban-
| doned the fight. Men who sat under
the drippings of it's sanctuary for
| twenty years, to use Judge Tarvin's
| expression concerning the Courier
Journal, and absorbed free silver ideas,
are not going to change so suddenly
without a better excuse than the Tri-
| has reversed its position on Alger, on
bond issues, on beef contractors, on
! conquest, on the retention of the Phil
| ippines. and on everything connected
with the war that it condemned a year
ago in order to cover up its back tracks
to the Hanna camp. 1t has repudiated
the doctrine of independent bimetaI-
lism and taken up with the sham of
international agreement as enunciated
| in the st. Louis platform. 1t has dis
| covered that the silver issue is a
corpse. 1t has swallowed every word
of prophecy it spoke with .owl-like SOL
emnity in 1885, 1t has made its peace
with Mckinley and holds its peace with
| the spoilsmen and corruptionists who
| drew its fire ten months ago. 1t be-
came suddenly convinced. one day last
tice: that the trusts are a good thing;
that goldbug government suits it to
perfection. and that 1T is useless to
make another stand for silver in this
country until conditions change"
Silver Republicans who were wont to
| regard our reighbor as an oracle on
| financial questions, were astonished at
the Transformation. Naturally they in
quire the secret of it. And the Tribune.
to justify it's sudden change of front
last April. says that nobody is talk
ing silver any more" Since April,
Senator Teller and his fellow delegates
who walked out of the ST. Louis con-
vention-Dubois, Cannon, Pettigrew
and Towne-have spoken. They declare
that silver is the paramount issue.
They agree that the only hope for sill
yer is in the Democratic party. They
recognize the fact that the goldbugs
are corrupting men and substituting
newspapers already in preparation for
the next campaign, and they regret to
note that among the traitors to the
principle are some of the pioneers in the
cause. Democrats have never ceased
to advocate the free coinage of silver,
and from the close of the last presiden-
tial campaign to the present, have re-
peatedly reaffirmed their allegiance to
the Chicago platform. But these men
are silver Republicans, if men may be
so designated. And for this reason and
the further reason that their alleged
| grievances and neglect are constantly
harped upon by our neighbor as an
other justification for treason to BIZ
metallism, their utterances, since its
flop to Hanna, were compiled. But what
does it say about them now? Does it
repeat the whine and point to the rents
in their togas made by partisan knives?
Not al all. 1t washes it's hands of the
whole outfit. 1t calls them politicians
and dismisses them with reference to
their personal ambitions. But here are
its words:
We said the other day that silver is
not any more talked about. In response.
our morning contemporary picks out the
statements made during the last six
months by perhaps a dozen politicians
and holds that it is direct proof that we
are mistaken. That is rather small bust
ness. What We meant was plain enough.
not worrying his mind just now about
silver. Our neighbor quotes ex-senator
Dubois, Senator Teller. ex-senator Can
non and ex-Congressman Towne. Each
one of these left the Republican party
nearly four years ago. They went with
the direct expression that everything
Possibly their Judgment was better than
anyone's else. but there is this to say
about it. They are all ambitious for
years ago. decided that whatever party
they Joined. II must be In direct opposition
to the Republican party. We do not be-
lieve that those in. charge of our morn
ing contemporary have heard man in
the last four months in any ordinary oc-
cupation in life having anything to say
about the Importance of silver, and what
ever may be next year, 1t is not a factor
which is troubling the average man in
the least this year. for the reasons that
we have already given.
But there are conditions and circum-