The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-06
NOT DEAD NOR SLEEPING.

NOBODY is talking silver any more,
Ell? That IS the reason, perhaps, that
the Tribune killed column report of
a great silver meeting held in New
York City on Monday, and printed
nothing but single remark of Con-
gresham Lentz concerning its Tagal
Washington. A year ago it would have
been willing to print the news concern
ing the work of national bimetallists.
Nobody is talking silver any more"
it says, while Democratic orators and
conventions are preaching sermons TO
the American people every day on the
silver text of the Chicago platform;
and the people themselves are more en-
Enthusiastically in favor of free coinage
and more determined to win the battle
Of independent bimetallism than they
were three years ago.
The greatest silver meetings ever held
outside of a political campaign have
been held this year, with the most STIR
ring addresses and the most pronounced
success. In Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York,
Rhode Island, Massachusetts. and in al
most every state of the. east and mid
die west these meetings were conduct
ed, and the people are found to be more
anxious to hear free silver talk and less
prejudiced against the cause than ever
before.
In view of these facts, which are re-
lated daily by the wires, and printed
in full in all western newspapers that
have no object in suppressing the news,
it seems strange that any boastful pio-
neer in the movement should desert it
now and assign as an excuse that sill
yer is dead" or that nobody is talk
ing silver any more"
The New York Journal, which has
been feeling the public pulse for some
time on the financial situation, which
feared that bimetallism was a hard
times issue. and that the public was
not intelligent enough TO realize its i'm
portance when war and mining distrib-
uted so much gold among them, has
made the discovery that the free sill
Yer issue is parapount, and that moth
ing can prevent Bryan's nomination Oh
bimetailic platform next year.
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James Creelman, who made a tour of
Ohio for the Journal, and attended the
state convention to ascertain precisely
the temper OF the Democracy, rendered
readers of the journal this verdict:
There has never been larger or more
entnusiastic Democratic convention in the
state. Everywhere one saw the face of
n. ms in h.
had portrait of Bryan on his breast
Livery delegate and every officer of the
convention wore a Bryan badge. There
was colossal portrait Of Bryan hung
Denind the convention platform. The eff
cial platform OF the convention was
adorned with his face. Every time Bry-
an : name or personality was even limited
81 in the proceedings Of the convention
the great audience roared out its APP
proyai.
Mclean was nominated, but his plat
form was rejected as too conservative.
AS a pioneer in the silver cause who re-
mans faithful TO the double standard.
he was nominated, but no attention was
pad to the plans or policies of the ma
chine. Machines cannot have their way
IN Inc national affairs of Democracy.
They must fail into line or drop out en-
tirely. AS Creelman says, this ire
naendous Democratic tide has sucked
into its wake all the asificialities of
machine politics. 1t has engulfed Cro-
kerism in New York and Mechanism in
Ohio"
And he adds that, while Mclean has
wealth and power, and following all
his own, >he has abandoned all and
thrown himself into the great political
stream which seems 10 sweep every
thing before it. Organism is like a
mighty mountain torrent. 1t may be
checked, but it cannot be checked
within the Democratic party
. :"
1T is hard to realize" says this ex-
perienced staff correspondent of the
Journal. ethat in spite of the enormous
power of machine politics, a man liv-
ing in the heart OF Nebraska, without
place or pewersor fortune, can dissolve
the plans of experienced and powerful
polhical leaders north. south. east and