The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-18


election furnishes no legiti-
81 mate reason for any Demo
49, crat to feel respondent or
unhopeful of the future.
The. recuperative power of the DeIiloo-
raev is one of the marvels of the cen
fury. and it would be well for our ke-
publican friends to remember that fact'
Defeat does not unduly depress the
Democrat who truly believes in the
principles of Jefferson; it only makes
him the more determined 10 fight the
coed fight until victory follows. Any
man who fancies that the Democratic
party IS hopelessly disOrganized be-
cause of the great defeat it has now
suffered will find with the passing of a
little time that he is most grievously
in error. The uses of adversely are
always sweet and beneficial to the De-
mocracy. and il may be counted on
with certainty to arise from this re
verse with new strength, more than
ever determined to stand like a lion in
the pathway of the unWhOl2SOne IN
f1uences of degenerate Republicansna.
From d national standpoint, the PEG
pie of this state were the victims of the
most gigantic confidence game ever
played on a commonwealth. On Nov.
6 they bought, and will be required 10
nav heavily for. a large and gIitteTinS
gold brick, from which the Silt has al
ready begun to disappear. revealing in
all it's raWnesS the dark hue of the base
metal from which such articles of rural
commerce are usually manufactured.
For the people here are by instinct and
tradition with the Democratic party
upon the great questions of bimet-
ailism, income tax, and undying oppo-
sition to the unchecked growth of pri-
vate monopolies.
Such an analysis of the vote cast last
Tuesday as is possible at this time in
dictates with great cleaTneSs that the
voters of the mining camps are, as a
rule. still bfmetallists. and there can
be no question that those of our citi-
zens who derive their support from
the farms Of the state are opposed to
trusts in any form, as earnestly as they
opposed to gold mOnOmetallism, while
upon the question of a graduated in
come tax, the people are practically
unit in its advocacy. In addition, the
Democracy advocates, and viii con
tnue to advocate, the expenditure by
the general government of such sums
of money as may be necessary for tile
reclamation of the arid lands of the
intermountain west, by means of stOr-
age reservoirs and in other WayS--un-
dertakings too large for private capital
but clearly both within the ability and
the duty of the government Again
our party advocated, and the people
favored, a revision of the present IN
iquitous trust nursing and oppressive
tariff law. But the people were lee
from the consideration Of these grave
questions by a perfect Statur1alia o.
misguided patriotism. The voice Of rea
son was drowned ~ the din Of clash
ing arms, the blare of trumpets, tn
beating of drums and the warlik
screams of Republican orators 1oWliu;
for the blood of their enemies. Be
cause, unfortunately for our hopes o
success. the Democratic candidate 70
the presidency had made imperialism
the paramount issue. of the campaign
During the long canvass preceding IN
election. our most effective and lnftu
entail speakers devoted hours and day
to an academic discussion of the evil
of Imperialism. talking. in a large ma
jority of instances. to audiences com
posed of men and women, 90 per cen
of whom had been thoroughly con
verted to the dOctine Of expansion 70
at least a year before the Kansas Cit
convention declared against it. In thl
connection it would be well also to re
member that for obvious reasons GU
people were particularly anxious tn
year to prove the genuinenesS OF the
patriotism. which had but recently bee
most industriously assailed, and tn
desire made them easily susceptible
the influences of spread agile orator
and Ieather-lunged appeals for tt
preservation of the flag. Tt king &C
vantage OF this laudable desire, RI
publican speakers. some of them hon
brewed. and some Of them of fOreig
vintage, went about the state in cnol
NOUS mum bers, wrapped in the Sta
and Stripes. with an American Gag
in one hand and the ghost of Grow
Cleveland in the other, and won hui
dreds of timid voters by filing the
minds with wholly imaginary fears
national dishOnOr and individual sta
Walton. The statement has been MAJ
seriously that some of our Republics
friends. who spoke in the outlying di
tricts, endeavored to induce the vote
of those places to believe that the su
cess of Mr.. Bryan meant the appoin