The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-02
WHINING OVER ITS NEGLECT,

Every time the eX-champion of silver,
lhat suddenly left off Shouting for in
dependent bimetallism one day last
spring and declared that Europe would
have to fix our financial system hence
forth, wants to set public sympathy
in its desertion Of the cause, it begins
to weep over the fate of those Repub-
licans who walked out of the St Louis
convention. They are not whining
They are not giving aid and comfort
to the enemy. They are not convinced
that 1T is useless TO make another
stand for silver i'll this country until
conditions change" They are not wear
ing mourning for the silver cause They
are not placing their private grievances
or personal ambitions above principle.
Senator Teller has spoken So has
Towne. So has Dubois. So has Cannon.
SO have they all. Was there anything
in all their utterances to justify the.
sniveling of the local Hanna organ?
Not a word.
Senator Teller has said recently:
The democrats viii make silver the lead
| ing issue. They viii probably have j
strong declartiOn on the subject of trusts.
but the antitrust question VIII not in any
way OVershadow the silver question. The
Chicago platform Will be adopted. With
some additions. The silver cause has not
! lost an inch of ground, but. on the con-
traiy progress has been made and the
cause has been gaining strength since the
last election. For the present, the war
question overshadows all others, but that
is only q temporary matter
Ex-senator Dubois declared not long
ago in an interview sent out by the
Associated Press: The persistent
statement made by the Republican
press that silver is d dead issue is the
expression of their wish but not fact.
Those who supported Bryan in 1886 viii
support him again unless they have
some special reason for not doing so.
There will not be many who will aban-
don principles deliberately adopted for
personal or special reasons"
Evidently the gentleman from Idaho
is not influenced by the personal or
special reasons that the Tribune as
signs and that seem to furnish a mo-
tive for its return to Hanna.
Ex-senator Cannon was also inter
viewed the other day. He stated that
traitors were assigning various excuses
for leaving the silver party, but that
TWO converts to bimetallism would be
gained for every man that left. He
dica't complain of the sorehead, a COM
plant that seems to affect the Tribune
quite seriously. But he did say this:
Mr.. Mckinley has been compelled to
abandon MS dour e standard convictions
The gold party has him in its power, and
with the Irusts, viii undoubtedly cause
him much enbarTas Sment. Senator Teller
has an enormous following in the west
and in the south, which will follow his
leadership in the next presidential cam
paign | am positive there will be no fall
ing off in the vote of the Republicans who
were true to their convictions at the St.
Louis convention.
When our goldbug contemporary
cites the cases of silver Republicans
who have not been entirely successful
in their political ambitions, let it quote
their words at the same time and al
low its readers to see whether or not
it is telling the truth when it says that
nobody is talking silver any more"