The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-29
SILVER AT KANSAS CITY.
Sacramento Bee.l

sacramento BEEF
Mckinley Republican papers In all parts
OF the country are trying 10 make q little
party capital out of the disagreement ia
the PLATFORM COMMITTEES at Kansas City
regarding the silver plank WnaI ABOUT
Traitors Now?' the salt Lake Tribune
heads an editorial, and IL raves through
nearly half a column in this 1aShions
Viii The Salt Lake Herald, the Boise
Capital, all ef which journals nave pseA
so gentle in their blaekguard erltlclsins
OF the Tribdne because some hIleSn
months ago il saw that at least lor Ile
present silver and the silver cause We're
overborne, and frankly said so-Wlll these
journals tell US now what they tlilnA %
all the traitors in their late variety SHOW;
which they termed a naJonal conNeLtton-
Are they going 10 read Genera1 " drHeL
out of the ranks OF the falthIui Arc
they going 10 shout treason. anu tie
mas gold" while referring 20 qulte Ai A.
of those present in the variety snow O9
they not feel d creepy sensation Up anu
down their SpineS when they tIllhh I ia
but for the "leprOus' delegate from 49, -
wall the cause, that paramount cauSe'
would have been lost in the great commit
tee on reSolutionsg -
Why all this feverish interrogation. II
is nonsense TO so eXaSgerate the h! ts,
sion over the silver plank by the PLATFORM l
committee. From first 10 last there MdS
no thought of abandoning the cause %
silver. The question before the conllA III.
tee was simply as 10 the eNpeuiShCS ~ =.
ton in favor of free coinage at 70 70 l.
A minority of the committee eonsidefeo
simple reaffirmation OF the Cnlcaso PIdt-
form sufficient, carrying with ~ tns SAM
declaration. We have the published testl-
mOny OF ex-senator Stephen NJ Nnlte
and of others equally trustworthy, 70 tne
effect that the convention was pracucdi-
ly unanimous for silver.
The significance of the discussion over
silver in the committee was not as 70 the
merits of the question, but simply as 70
the degree of prominence that shouIu pc
given the various issues Ine result Was
a COMPROMISE in which Imperialism was
pushed to the front as the paramount IS
sue of the campaign. The convention hau
never a thought of deserving the Chlcag9
platform, and the cause OF SILVER WOu49
not have been lost had no 10 70 1
plank appeared in the Kansas CITY pat
form.
Instead of distressing itself needlessiy
over what occurred in Kansas CITY, our
contemporary would better employ us
time in explaining how II was mat
driVeler from New York, meaning lhe
Hon. Lemuel Quigg. 'drlYSlea out ol me tIle
Republican platform at Philadelphia the
following resolution, which Congressman
GrosVenor of Ohio declares was agreed
upon by President Mckinley himself;
I'VE reasSert the principle which was
the watchwOrd of the Republican party ID
its first great battle, Of which Abraham
Lincoln was the illuStriOuS champion ana
on which he was elected president. that
territory belonging 70 the United States,
subject only TO the fundamental safe
guards of liberty, justice and personal
rights"
This ringing sentiment" as GrOsvenor
called it, was a thinly yelled declaration
Of the right of congress to treat the new
island possessions" OF the United states
as subject provinces or dependencies, out
side of the jurisdiction and protection OF
the federal constitution. 1t stands as the
expression of McKinley's views, and is an
issue of the campaign, since GTOSVenOr
has given away the administration on
this point
The Tribune is respectfully requested 10
shiny on its own side.
AS to the Tribunes deseruOn or silver
some fifteen months ago." We cannot see
that it has taken on any different COM
DIexion since the assemblage at Kansas
CITY Even had there been traitors at
that gathering the case would be the
sane. Judas is not the less odlous De
cause history relates other examples of
broken faith.