The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-27
Pennsylvania Republicans Gxcuse for
Bis Party.
Bis Parry.

y Salt Lake gentleman received the
following letter from a relative in
which is shown very clearly the
eastern sentiment regarding the pres
ent administration:
Wilkesba Pa, Sept. s.
My Dear COusin-It is no secret
among the best informed politicians of
our state that the national committee
have concluded to save no expense in
the western Democratic strOnghoIds.
and especially the trans-Roclxy noun
tain states, not, however, with any
very sanguine hopes of redeeming them
for Mr. Mckinley, but with the trust
that they may succeed in largely re-
dUcing that hateful Democratic ma
Jority; so presume you viii have
surfeit of political lOvefeasts all the
fall.
How silly, How arrogant and pre-
SumptuOuS such work and methods all
seem to me- The speaker always as
sumes that his auditors are lacking in
force and mental strength, and not
capable of individually analyzing the
conditions surrounding them, and that
1t is imperative that every other per-
son should become subservient to their
Will; an invitation, apparently, to cease
the exercise of personal vOlitiOn or
mental prerogative and become sim
ply transmitters of the speakers meth
DDS or ideas.
ton to Mr. Bryan, anyhow? Is it any
lack of recognized ability? No, indeed,
for his wonderful fertility of mind, his
magnetism, his Self-reliance, his pow
erful endurance, his ability to interest
and sway multitudeS year after year,
must be recognized and admitted. as
they all indicate the profound student
and a thinker that is in debt to no
other mans capacity l really believe
the great objection is that should Bry-
IN he al HI
to it that Bryan is president. and this
would be a woeful condition for the pO-
htical sycophant, lin this one thing
and this alone. l am a Democrat-) How
quickly that would dispense the para
site mob whose influence now so large
~ dominates at Washington. and into
whose hands or power any Republican
president is expected to move 1 be-
Heve Mr. Mckinley is an honest man,
and 1 do not question his motives or
Intentions, but he has been weak
enough to place himself under external
influences that have fettered him in his
delegated duties to such an extent that
today he would not dare stop IN tran
sit between the capitol and Canton
and make a speech on any vital or i'm
portant subject without first submit
ting il TO this external influence" for
approval, or indeed, having them fur
nish the text (if not the whole body of
the speech-) 1 save my RepubIicanism
by blaming Mr.. Mckinley alone for this
humiliating condition Shou he de-
clare his independence and defy his
self-constituted external cabinet then
could have charity for his own errors
as man, while now he must neces-
sarily suffer for the Intentional wrongs
inflicted upon the vast majority for the
benefit of the vampires who control
him.
And now a word concerning the pa
per you have been forwarding me so
frequently of late l know you do it
in the goodness of your heart, and l
really believe 1 have given il more at
tentfon from that fact than. should
have done otherwise. yet have a sug-
gestion to offer and ] trust you will
not fail TO accept il in the same spirit
in which surely present it. It is this:
notice its editorial page consists
largely, OF quotations from Our morn