The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10
WHAT ARE THOSE ISSuESe

| fthE tSSUESY
| The local goldbug organ explains, for
the benefit Of ex-senator Dubois, that
while 1t supported Bryan in 1896 it
wanted Republican, congress elected
because with the silver question set
tied there are some Others" And this
is the reason it favored the mainten-
ance of silver Republican organiza-
ton in Utah three years ago, it ex-
plains.
| year ago. or whereabouts, the silver
| Republican organization of Utah dis
banded. There was nothing for Re-
publicans to do but join the Democratic
party with its Chicago platform, or the
Republican party with its ST. Louis
platform, unless they chose to link their.
fortunes with Populism whose chief ex-
ponent and leading candidate in the
state had pronounced it a thing
OF the past. The Republican
party of Utah today is not a
silver party and makes no such
pretensions. 1t is a part of the ma
tional organization of which Mark
Hanna is chairman. The local organi-
cation is controlled by men who never
renounced the national party or it's
piatform-by L. R. Rogers, Arthur
Brown, Arthur Pratt, Arthur Thorn
as, Glen Miller, and Alma Ell
dredge-men who naver wavered in
their devotion to Mckinley who stood
by the st. Louis convention when
Dubois, Cannon, Teller, Pettigrew and
Towne walked out and washed their
hands of the corruption that ruled it.
When the Republican party sur
rendered to the agents of Wall street
three years ago, the Tribune said So
1t said that no silver man could stultify
himself by remaining with such an
organization. 1t said that it would
never falsify its 20-year record by sup
porting candidate or a party with a
platform favoring gold 1t repeated
this declaration over and over, again
and again. 1t pronounced international
bimetallism an impossibility and every
resolution favoring it snare 1t char
acterized William Mckinley as the tool
OF an INSCRIPTIONS gang, and declared
that the country had never produced
worse enemy to bimetallism. 1t
warned Republicans against having
any thing to do with the regular Re-
publican party. 1t wanted Arthur
Brown and the delegates who remained
In the st. Louis convention tarred and
feathered. 1t wanted it distinctly
understood that the writer will never
support again in all his life a gold
candidate on gold platform no matter
what party may present him, or what
his claims on general principle may be,
for the suffrage of the American peo-
ple.''
And now it calls Fred Dubois, Henry
NJ. Teller, f. J. Cannon, and c.. A.
Towne to account for their reputation
of Republicanism on the ground that
there are other issues than silver. At
the same time it has the unblushing
audacity to repeat that hackneyed ex-
preston of goldbugism that only one
out of every ten of the party that
declared in it's national platform for
silver believe in it! Who and what is
it to call into question the sincerity or
the integrity of men the latchet of
whose shoes it is unworthy to loosen?
What are these other issues to which
it makes mysterious illusions?
Does our contemporary refer to the
tariff? When the Provo Enquirer
called its attention, in 1896, to the i'm
portance of the tariff the Tribune said:
The present tariff Cwilson's) is higher
than any tariff that ever was except one
1t does not help Utah especially and we
Will tell the Enquirer secret: The men
in the east (Republicans) who are shout
ing tariff do not propose, whatever
changes there may be in the tariff, to
make it of any especial benefit to the
men of the west.
1t likewise took Arthur Brown to task
for referring even to other issues while
the silver issue is pending. 1t said:
Senator Brown makes silver subordinate
to protection in his speeches, and insists
that the present Democratic) tariff is a
free trade tariff. The present tariff (Wil-
SON 81 is the highest protective tariff ever
passed, except one 1t is a tariff that is
satisfactory to good many branches of
discriminating tariff. The senator al
ways insists that while we allfeel favor
able to free silver Republicans hold that
protection is the more essential article Of
faith. He is frank and fair in his state-
mentS and people can judge from
them exactly how he stands. In our
judgment no tariff in the world can do
this country any good or begin to restore
prosperity to the masses. of the people
until silver shall be rehabilitated.
But the Republican party got into
power and enacted the Dingley tariff
law. This was the crowning act of the
tariff legislation of protectionists. It
embodied their best ideas and enlisted
the support of their greatest statesmen.
Yet tits farce and fraud, travesty
upon true protection. an infamous
sheme of extortion and robbery, and
the Salt Lake Tribune has told us so.
Then tariff cannot be one of flnosa s.,fy,ss,.