The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-03
John Brisben Walker on Safety
of Country.
WANTS BROADPLATFORM
SAYS IMPERIALISM AND TRUSTS
ARE CHIEF ISSUE.
In Letter to Bryan He Advocates
Sidetracking the Financial Issue
Protests Against Kansas City
Hotel Rates Continue-oregon Re
publicans Making Claims.

New York, June 2.-John Brisben
Walker. according to the New York
World. has written "a letter upon the
issues of the campaign to William Jen-
nings Bryan.
The letter is dated at Mr.. Walkers
home at Irvington-o the Hudson, n.
Y, and is as follows;
q 1on every hand the next presiden-
tial election i regarded as likely to
be the most important in the history
of TIE republic. The question which will
be uDperpost IS not simply a ques-
ton of good or bad legislation, but
the fnality: Shall the republic give
place to a form of government which
viii be the equivalent of a monarchy or
worse? Shall Democratic forms of gov
eminent be replaced by the rule of the
few INSCRIPTIONS men who have no
regard for the general welfare or love
OF republican institutions?'
Hope Is In Democracy.
with the Democratic party alone
the hope of rescue remains. The man
who by his error of judgment makes
the success of that party impossible
may be responsible for the downfall of
the republic. The Democratic party rep
resents all that there is in concrete
form of opposition to the dangerous
state of affairs which now threatens:
upon it depends the preservation Of re-
publican institutions. To succeed it
must have the vote of the great major
iy Of honest men,
Platform Must Be Broad.
IN such a crisis the worst enemy of
the Democratic party and Of the coun-
try is that man who would narrow the
platform and creed under which voters
must act upon lines which may exclude
those who are sincerely anxious for
the public welfare. To repeat, the sue
cess Of the Democratic party is neces-
sary for the preservation of govern
ment by the people.
There are many issues for which the
Democratic party stands but there is
only one issue upon which the voters
are certain to be united. Imperialism.
trust rule, militariSm, all mean but one
thing, all represent but one issue and
upon this issue every Lincoln Republi-
can and every Jefferson Democrat may
unite.
Would Sidetrack Silver.
THE finance issue, while of immense
Importance, must have no place in this
campaign, its introduction viii endan-
ger more vital interests. No man has
q better right to say this than l, who,
twenty-five years ago. made it a part
of my contract in taking charge of the
Washington Daily Chronicle, that I
should be allowed to advocate the re-
mOnetiZatiOn of silver, and in the Ruf-
fdlo convention Of 1895 wrote and Sc
cured the adoption of the clause in
dorsing the Chicago platform.
Feels the Public Pulse
II know what men are saying and
thinking. With a large personal ac-
quaintance and correspondence scat
tered all over the country, am salts
fed that those Democrats who We're
most earnest in urging the adoption Of
the Chicago platform in 1896 and are
most anxious for the success of dem
Ocratic institutions, today look at this
matter in the light which I have here
indicated.
You have reason to know my belief
IN your great personal fitness to rep
resent the interests of the people in
the next campaign. I trust your sin
cerity, your imperYiOusness alike to
fear, to fiatteTy. to purchase. I trust
your wisdom to conduct the affairs of
the nation. But your leadership will
be dearly purchased it, IN order to Sc
cure il, we must adopt a platform
which, however just in its enunciation,
is unwise and unnecessary at this time,
and which results in driving away those
voters which are necessary TO perpe-
trate republican institutions"