The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-10
sNEERINe At The PEOPLE.

The local mouthrieoe of Boss Hanna
refers TO the Kansas CITY convention
as a variety show speaks of ''ieprous
delegates" who stood for silver and
wants 10 know if The Herald. the Boise
Capital, Sacramento Bee and other free
coinage newspapers are COINS 10 read
General Warner out Of the ranks of
the faithful
What has General Warner done?
Has he deserted the silver cause? Has
he announced an intention 20 support
the gold ticket on the gold platform?
Has ne "stultifed a silver record of
more than twenty years" by declaring
for Mark Hanna's presidential candi-
date?
The records show that General War
ner is one of Bryan's strongest sup
porters. The only objection raised to
his plan of securing the remonetiza-
ton of silver was that he proposed to
set it by indirect methods-"strathe-
gem, as Mr.. DOGGY would call it. He
wanted the question OF ratio left out
that support for candidates who he
lieved in the ratio of 16 to might be
secured by the use of a little deceD-
ton. After you get your silver tick
ct elected" he said, then apply your
ratio"
On the 3rd of July General Warner
addressed the BimetaIlic league at
Kansas City. criticislng the currency
bill passed by the late congress. plac-
ing the entire monetary system of the
country on a gold basis This does not
indicate that he has deserted silver and
gone over to the gold crowd, as our
morning contemporary has done in the
face of its fearful pledges to stand
firm.
1t is perfectly natural for Hanna
organ to cheer the trust dominated
convention at Philadelphia and to
sneer at the Kansas City convention as
"a variety show of "leprous dele
gates"
Probably the Associated Press ex-
plains the reason. 1t described the Re
Publican convention as "a magnificent
assemblage composed mainly of men
whose lots were cast in easy places. -
Looking over the Democratic national
convention it said it was clearly not
a gathering of wealth and fashion. ."
The report continued:
The bronzed faces Of many of the
men. their coarse shirts, collarless and
scarfless, marked them as from the soil.
With hardly an exception they took of
their coats and sat shirt-sleeved and
brics and ginghams rather than in sum
mer silks and laceS. and the gorgeous
costumes and picture hats were in an
oasis of duller hue.
That is our Hannaize5 contempora-
rvs variety show That accounts for
its sneers. Out Of the thousand dele
gates at Kansas City a very small
proportion were men of fortune, and
these were chiefly business men who
had risen from the ranks of toll The
Democratic party is not the party of
the rich. nor yet the party Of the poor
1t is not a party OF classes. but of the
masses. 1t is the protector of the
weak. the defender OF the right. the
guardian Of wealth, the champion of
economy in the administration of gov
eminent.
Those men of wealth who have made
their money honestly and are willing
fer others TO have a chance are Demo-
Gratis by instinct. Those who have
amassed great riches by government
favoritism and want a monopoly TO pre-
vent any one else from doing likewise
are insuncuveiy Republicans. For this
reason the masses look upon the Dem
ccratic party as their friend and at
national gatherings the plain people
are ever 10 be found in the majority
They are the well-to-do, the comfort
able and self-respecting middle classes
who. as Lincoln described them, have
no favors to ask of government save
that il may be administered in the in
terests of the majority. not the few"
These constitute the bone and sinew
of the land. When they meet Wall
street aristocracy and the subsidized
press wiz sneer. but for all that the