The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-08
Believes In Towne.

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Believes In Towne.
Senator Butler is among those who
are believed to favor Mr.. ToWne. In an
interview he said: I'VE are going to
be liberal with the other parties who
are cooperating with US on general
lines. In 1896 we took Bryan after he
had been named by the Democrats and
we stood loyalty by him to the end of
the campaign. This year the Peoples
party is going to be the first party to
put MIN in the field. and SO Tar as
have been able to discover there is a
very general disposition towards going
even further, if need be. and selecting
a candidate for the vice presidency
who viii be acceptable to the silver
Republicans.
of course, in the short time I have
been here I have not been able to see
q great many members of the party,
but those whom 1 have seen are pc
fectly united upon the proposition that
all must be done that it is possible to
do to secure absolute harmony among
Populists, Democrats and silver Re-
publicans in the support of Mr.. Bran.
and l believe the party viii be found
equal TO the surrender of both nOmi-
nees in order to secure this paramount
desideratum.
In fact, speak within bounds when
I say that never within the history Of
the country has any party ever shown
such unselfishness and such devotion
20 principle as the Peoples party has
shown in the past and is willing to
show now to bring victory to cause. -
The Boiling Populists.
The senator refused to give any ex-
preston of opinion concerning the
boiling POpulists, who are TO hold their
convention at Cincinnati, further than
to say: They represent nobody but
themselves, and need not to be dignified
by a reference to them"
Secretary Edgerton spoke more free
ly concerning the bolt, which he ex-
planned originated at the Lincoln meet
ing of the national committee last Feb
ruary.
I'm reality" he said, only one mem
Der of that committee walked out of the
committee and he was accompanied by
only four proxies. These with a few
other rejected proxies called the Cincin-
natl convention"
In the matter Of the platform to be
adopted by the convention the opinion
is very general that the st. Louis dec
laration of principles viii be reiterated
with variations and additions
I'VE will express our opinion in no
uncertain way on questions of trusts
and imperialism" said a United States
senator who is a delegate.
We viii certainly take position on
the point of attempting to govern any
people without their consent. As to
trusts we shall not content ourselves
with denouncing them, but shall offer a
remedy. That remedy is to control the
instruments of commerce, money,
transportation and the transmission of
intelligence. In our st. Louis platform
we took the position that all these func-
tiOns should be controlled by the gov
eminent We will accomplish our end
If we point out that to assume this
control will be to suppress the trusts,
and Furthermore we viii attempt moth
ing new in this effort. nothing requiring
a change in the constitution, for all
that is here set ont is provided for in
that instrument"
The Financial Plank.
The financial plank of the St Louis
platform will be unchanged and the
gold standard bill passed at the present
session of congress viii be denounced
y in the interest of national banks and
dangerous to the best interests Of the
public at large.
The Porto Rico legislation viii be de-
nounced and it viii be declared that the
constitution follows the flag in the ac~
QUESTION of territory. The Republican
PARTY viii also be charged with failure
10 keep faith in Cuba and with trans
cending all bounds of propriety in the
management of the Philippine question.
Militarism viii also play an import
art part in the platform. The matter
of increasing the standing army of the
giving the president the power to de-