The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-30
South Dakota Senator Slides Back
Into Republican Party.
SWALLOWS GOLDEN PILL
BUT DECLARES HE Is STILL A
BIMETALLIsT.
Says He Does Not Care to Travel Any
Longer In the Same Class as
Democrats and Populists Whom
He Characterizes as Socialists
Mckinley Will Win


New York. Dec. pa special to the
Times from Washington says: Sena-
tor Kyle of South Dakota, who has
been classed in the congressional di-
Rctory, presumably upon his own au-
thority, as an independent in politics,
but who repeatedly has voted with the
Republicans, has come out in declara-
ton that will justify the makers of the
directory hereafter in classifying him
as Republican in name as well as in
fact. He is out of line with his former
Populist associates and says So
Though l am a bimetallist and have
been so from conscientious convictions
for twenty-five years" he said. L
would rather take the most undiluted
gold standardism than to accept BIZ
metallism with the ingredients of rad
zeal socialism that are now associated
with it,
He does not favor that part OF sug-
gested legislation which gives to the
secretary of the treasury authority to
issue bonds at his own discretion, be-
lieving that when the people of the
United States find it necessary to in
crease their public debt, congress
should be consulted. On the general
question of voting for the gold stand
ard, he does not believe that the en-
actment into law of a principle which
is now generally recognized will affect
the country disadvantageously.
Gold Standard Good Enough.
I'VE have been practically operating
under the gold standard he said. for
thirty years. We have brought our
selves into harmony with the money
systems of the world 1t is a doubtful
proposition whether it is right to dis
turb values again when by such action
we do injustice to the creditor class
and at the same time put ourselves out
of joint with the rest Of the world. In
thirty years we have adjusted our
selves to new conditions, and in going
to bimetallism now we might be COM
hitting a second wrong, the demone-
tization of silver being the first, in or
der to make right"
Senator Kyle says that the third
party movement has degenerated into
an endorsement of all that is radical
and socialistic. The chairman of the
Populist party in South Dakota, he
says, is a socialist of the most pro-
nounced type, whose newspaper advo-
Gates an entiresg new form of govern
ment The Republicans and conserva-
tive Democrats who were associated in
the independent movement in the past
have returned to their former political
allegiance, not caring to follow Altgeld,
OtU5 diLu OlllCI
Because Of these radical meetings,
he says, 1.-The American flag was twice
torn down and the red flag Of socialism
raised in its place / am in favor of
American institutions, and / would
rather take the Republican party, with
all in it that is distasteful for me, than
that which has no respect for our flag
and wants to tear down our govern
ment."
Will Combine With Socialists.
rs the independent movement in
South Dakota at an end?"
1T is probable that the socialists. the
radical Populists and the radical DEM
ocrats will get together and operate
under the name of the Reform party.
In the election last fall there was no
organized Democratic party and no
Democratic ticket. The name was COM
pletely obliterated, and yet it was not
so very long ago that the Democrats
cast q COO votes in my state. This con-
glcmerated party can never win The
present Populist governor was elected
by a bare majority of 800. although
previously the Populists had several
thousand majority. In the last cleo
ton the Republicans, without money
and without a struggle, won by nearly
1000
I'm the presidential campaign next
year South Dakota will go for McKin-
ley by from 10000 to $1,000. The So
cialistic tendencies of the third party
people and the prosperity which is
being enjoyed by the South Dakota
farmers have sounded the death knell
of the old movement"