The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-13

Chicago, June 1.-THE Times-HeraId
has been asking members of the Demo-
cratic national committee what should
be the party's battle cry in 1900
whether Free coinage of silver or
Down with the trusts or both. The
answers of those that have been re-
ceived are published in the Times Her
aid today.
While only one of the replies of these
Democratic leaders, the representative
for Maine, the home state of Mr.
BTyan's running mate in 1896. says
drop free silver" they are all but
unanimous in giving the trust question
a prominence it never has had in the
platform of their own or any other
party. With one exception, all speak
freely that some other issue divide the
stage with free silver.
Some say imperialism" or ''Militar-
ISM will be one of the prominent is
sues. One says frankly, emphasize the
| trust question as the big thing. Still
others speak for a twin battle cry.
Just one committeeman says fatty:
The issues of 1896 should be the is
sues of 1900" This one exception is
Alexander Troup of Connecticut. Half
a dozen of the committeeman are either
non-committal or refuse to be quoted.
They are: George Fred Williams OF
| Massachusetts, d. J. Champau. Mich
igan; B. B. Smalley. Vermont: Frank
/ Campbell, New York: T. D. O'Brien.
| Minnesota; ]. G.. Dudley. Texas.
A statement from Thomas Gahan,
national committeeman for Illinois.
cannot be obtained, because he is not in
the city, and cannot be reached by tel
egraph. His attitude is, however, pref
ty well known.
The committeeman who say free sill
I yer must have first place in the plat
form, although generously combined
with the questions of trusts .'militar-
ism, and so on, are in Colorado. Kan
! sas, Nebraska, Arkansas and Indian
territory, which latter does not vote for
president. All the others either put the
| trust question foremost or lay much
stress upon the questions presented by
/ the Spanish war.
Views OF Committeeman.
| Some of the statements of the COM
mitteemen received by the Times-Her-
aid are, in part as follows:
| Thomas McRae (Arkansas)-In my
opinion the national Democratic con-
vention should reaffirm the Chicago
platform. and in addition denounce
trusts, Imperialism and extravaganza.
The necessity for the free coinage of
silver is greater now than it was in
and a larger national debt TO pay, We
need more redemption money with
which to make payments.
J. ]. Dwyer (California)-No man can
tell where we will be in 1900. Predic-
tiOns must. therefore, be based on
ifs" If the Philippine war is still in
active progress in 1900, or il the presi-
dent and his pretorian guard are Their
actively engaged in carrying out their
conspiracy TO steal Cuba, and espec-
tally if both these foreign questions re-
main unsolved, there will be but one
issue, and that will be imperialism. In
that event, the Democratic party will,
in my opinion, declare against imper-
ialism and will win easily. Its plat
form will be the constitution. the Dec
laratiOn of Independence and the ten
commandments. Domestic questions
will be Sidetracked. In the absence of
foreign issues the battle will be on the
same lines as in 1896. 1 do not thinl
the antitrust issue will be allowed to
obscure the silver issue. 1t will be a
fight of Democracy against plutocracy.
with the financial question in the fore
front.
Will Be Money Question.
Adair Wilson (Colorado)-"In my
opinion there is no doubt that in the
next presidential campaign the money
question will be the leading issue as
il was in the last, and that bimetallsm
the restoration of silver coinage at a
ratio of 16 to will be the battle cry
of the Democracy. The Democratic
party has always opposed trusts and.
possibly. in view of recent events. in its
platform of 1900 public attention may
be more forcibly called to this ques-
ton, but in no such serse as to sup
plant the financial issue. The former is,
in fact, embraced in the latter-is only
NOT n Of
financial policy of the government II
you wish to destroy an evil you must
strike at its source. Hence. to crush
the trusts, restore biTnetallism- The
paramount issue in the campaign of
1900 Will be the same as it was in 1896.
Alexander TrouD Connecticut
Personally, favor the Chicago plat
form of 1896 as the paramount issue in
the campaign of 1900 The vote for
Bryan in Connecticut and New Eng
land. in my opinion. will be largely in
creased in 1900, and the issue instead
of being between International bimetaI-
ism and independent binetaIlism. will
be between the single gold standard. as
advocated by the Republicans. and the
Chicago platform It will be a fight to
the finish.''
Clark HowelFs Views.
Clark Howell, jr.. (Georgia)-"Until
new platform is made, we should stand
by the old platform. except of course.
in such questions as might arise out CT
conditions which are new and which
were not under consideration at the
time of the meeting of the last national
convention. And even on such ques-
tions l doubt the propriety of the ma
tional committee taking declaratory
position in advance of the party con-
ventions in the several states. The two
questions are now imperialism and the
constructions OF trusts and combines.
As to the latter question, the general
attitude of the party is already de-
fined in the national platform. and
there is little doubt that it will follow
the position already taken in its last
ma tional declaration by a more n0inted