The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-15

nave nominated Bryan. it is shown
tnat base money is still to the front
ana tnat the issue on which the Re-
puoicans swept the country in 1895 is
yet in its burning stage.
Chicago Inter-Ocean. President Nc
hiniey, IN his formal letter of accept
ahce, touches upon every point at is
sue IN this campaign. He meets clear
y ana Iorctbiy not. only the objections
urged IN the Democratic and aPoDulist
platforms against Republican policy,
put all the arguments advanced by
Mr. Bryan on the STUMP. He points
OUT thaS the three conventions repre-
sentlng the opposition TO the .Repubh-
can party made the free coinage of
parties supporting Mr.. Bryan declared
that they would labor Increasingly TO
plot out the gold act from the statute
DOCKS, those who support the gold
standard must meet the issue as they
did in 1896.
Denver Times: He (Adr. Mckinley
is fully aware that Mr. Bryan. while
seeking 10 distract attention with the
imperialism cutlery, still holds the coin
age question behind him, ready TO I'M
settle conditions with it if possible. He
therefore treats this in brief and con-
Elncing fashion. showing reasons why
the nature Of the menace is not chang
ed, while facts have verified and forti-
ned the argument of the Republican
party
Pittsburg Dispatch: President Nc
hlniey's letter of acceptance which
may be his only campaign utterance.
is a most forceful document. 1t deals
almost wholly with two subjects-the
monetary issue and the attitude of the
United states toward the former Span
ism possessions On the money ques-
ton, which is the vital issue the presi-
dents argument is clear and concIu-
sive- 1t is as direct as Mr. Bryan's
references to the subject are evasive.
Minneapolis Times: Mr. Mckinley
places the financial issue first in i'm
portance, If we may judge by the ar
rangement of his letter, for with few
Iormaltles, rhetorical or epistOlary. he
enters quickly upon a discussion of
that question, using as his text the
declaration of the Republican platform
and accepting in good faith the utter
ances on the same subject of the allied
democratic, PopuliSt and silver Repub-
llcan parties. II we are to believe that
these declarations for the free and un-
limited coinage of silver and gold at
the ratio of 16 to l are put forth in all
sincerity, Mr. Mckinley holds that the
men who voted against the Democratic
party in 1886 because they believed the
law would mean financial disaster have
the same reason for voting against
that panty now.
San Francisco Call: The country will
receive with lively satisfaction the
presidents clear statement of the es-
Establishment of the gold standard and
Its ef1ectS and the necessity that it shall
not be overthrow. Treating his on
ponentS with the greatest courtesy, he
states, with fairness, his opposition to
the gold standard and his enmity TO
sound money and, crediting him with
honesty of purpose, quotes the pledges
he has solemnly made to wage unceas-
ing war upon the gold standard, sound
money and the public credit, until they
are piled in a common ruin. There is
no use splitting sylIabIes over how
this is to be done. Colonel Bryan is
pledged against the gold standard and
the president is pledged to it. Those
who believe that standard TO be the
only safe and necessary foundation to
the public credit, to the profits of
trade and the welfare of labor, have
the issue made plain. That they will
vote their conscience and their inter
est in November is saying that BAN
ooozlery has never yet captured the
American people.