The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-27
GOLDBUG ISLANDERS.

The Daily Goldbug says that "the
silver question viii be to the front
because Mr.. Bryan is boss of his party
out and out" 1t says further that
Mr.. Bryan knows that it is a useless
issue. because there is a Republican
senate fixed for five years TO come that
will stop any deviltry in that line that
Mr.. bryan could propose, even if he
were president."
But what says Henry Cabot Lodge
upon this point? Senator Lodge pre-
sided over the deliberations of the con-
ventiogi whose work the local mouth
piece of the administration so heartily
endorses. In his speech, which Repre-
sentative Grosvenor declares is "a plat
form of itself" the chairman Of the
convention said:
1.-The moment the Republican party
passes from power and the party Of
free silver and fiat paper comes IN,
stable currency and the gold stand
ard, the standard of the civilized
world. are in imminent and deadly
peril"
If Mr.. Hanna had the senate liked,
as his local mouthpiece asserts, would
TIE distinguished senator from Massa-
ohusetts have said that?
And what does the Philadelphia plat
form say? Voicing the sentiments Of
the party and speaking for the organi-
y ton as a whole, it says:
I'VE declare. our steadfast opposi-
ton to the free and unlimited coinage
OF silver"
If silver is a dead issue, as the Salt
Lake Tribune insists it shall be, why
was this declaration made, and why
do Wall street financial journals refer
30 it as "the strongest and most salts
factory plank in the PLATFORM"
If the senate has been fixed" for five
years by the London bankers, Why does
the platform upon which Mckinley and
Roosevelt are running contain this
warning and appeal to goldbug voters?
s'However firmly Republican legis-
1ation may seem TO have secured the
country against the peril OF base and
discredited currency the election OF
a Democratic president could not fail
to impair the coUntry's credit and 20
bring once more into question the in
tention Of the American people to
maintain upon the gold standard the
parity of their money circulation"
Is the Tribune afraid the parity of
money circulation viii not be maintain
ed upon the gold standard? Is that its
reason for supporting the goldbug tick
ct on a gold platform this year? Is
Fsela
record of mere than twenty years?''
Here is another ingenious excuse our
morning contemporary offers in expla-
nation of its desertion of the silver
cause:
The country has found ont that Mr..
Bryan himself uses silver merely as a
campaign cry; that at heart he IS Pop
uist and believes IN making money ny
machinery 1t is for this that the WIG
ponulists are shouting for him, and II IS
because of this that nearly every sensi-
bic Populfst has left his party and VIII
vote this year the Republican ticket
Those are almost the identical words
used by the New York Press a few
months ago in telling people why they
should not vote for Mr.. Bryan. And
here is the Tribuue's reply:
The author of the above SANDER is
either a fool or a liar. or both, There
never was a more INSCRIPTIONS liar than
the accomplished BLACKBOARD who daily
fills the editorial columns of the golQDu9
Press with idiOtic vapOrings about POpu-
lism and machlne-ndde money. vi
course he knew that IN the foregoing ne
was lying in every line. Such neWSpa-
pers are disgrace to the profession OF
Journalism. and such blacksuard edltorS
would appear TO better aQNanlaS@
dangling from a telephone pole thar
writing editorials for an intelligent pub
lie to read
IF that was deserved by the goldbug
press of 1896. it applies to the goldbug
nress of today. Il it was a lie and q
Islander two years ago to say that
BRYAN favored .machine-made money
let our goldbug contemporary take it,
own medicine today. And it hasn't beer
four months since it confessed that
Bryan is an honest mar and cannot b
swsrved from what he believes is RICH
by all the bosses in hiss party
g %
The Daily GOldbug complains be-
cause "some Democratic papers" hav,
said that a lot Of bad men congre
gated at Philadelphia. and nominated
p ticket" We do not remember t.
have seen any such statement in
Democratic newspaper. But the sam
old crowd that nominated Mckinley a
st. Louis was there in fuller force; tn
influences which have surrounded TIL
administration We're there; the "bru
tai slave driver who dominated tn
St. Louis convention" was there an'
his presence was felt.
Then who nominated and renominat
ed Mckinley? Let the Tribune an
swer. It has said that the affair
of government have been in the hand
Of the Hanna-Platt-E.k syndicate o
corruptionists ever since AIcKinley's in
auguration." 1t has desc dbed McKin
ley as the plant tool of the wors
gang Of political eOrruptionists- tina
ever gained ascendancy in any coun
try And they were all at the Phila
delphia convention roofing for thei
man.
Who are McKinley's supporters