| Show OPINION what republicans are saying of tie the st louis bolt McKinley iam ism discussed by a leading republican organ the protection cry is a threadbare fraud it ii wont work the record has alwa always y s been of staunch republican faith faita and still believes in the old time and oft re itte rated principles as embodied in the lives and services of lincoln and garfield but it cannot and will not under any circumstances support mckinley or any other man upon a gold platform rw but pledges its aid be it great or small to secure the election of a free silver candidate whether he be be nominated at chicago by the dem or at st louis by a fusion of silver men and populists lists we are with teller cannon cannoa allen alien kearns dubois and the other heroes park city record we ave candidly express the hope that the democratic delegation to the national convention has no national banker michigan senator or california flunkey flankey to enact the role of judas iscariot ai and betray la 11 the people of utah in iii that at august agust assemblage as they were sial eold d out at st azis louis by mccornick brown and trumbo the people of utah must teach that trio that this state isi j not divided on the silver issue Nr tR 0 I 1 cannon allen alien and kearns are 1 three pons fons of whom utah should be proud they are true blue and park city extends them hearty congratulations on their courage and manhood and can assure each one a solid vote of commendation tb theirs e irs was the act of truehearted true hearted levelheaded level headed men fighting for a grand principle that affects the welfare of the whole nation park city record the argus is a republican paper and a 3 defender of republican benot tenets ts believing as that paper does ice that the republican party is a a party of petty spites ard and narion narrow politics it would appear that the idol it has fashioned fas honed rather reflects upon itself silver cannot be more debased than it is so in that respect there is nothing to fear and the dingley bill would lead us to expect nothing from the party in behalf of lead and wool no matter mattor 11 what W hat the action of the west might be ogden standard the following was in the salt lake tribune As the tide is turning it seems clear that today or tomorrow tor a candidate for president will be nominated in st louis on the single issue issue of a high protective tariff and with that s a slogan the party will go out and expect to conquer we do not see what the managers are thinking of they I 1 saw the people ahr three ve years ago last november repudiate that same kind of a tariff by an overwhelming majority and they were able to do it because the democrats far and wide s sounded the note that the hard times to that obnoxious on and oppressive tariff and still the republicans republican looking back over r the wreck of the last three and one half years seems to think that by telling the people that they will restore tho that or a similar tariff they will get their votes it is ie possible they will it is very possible they will elect their candidate but then what if they on ath page OPINIONS OF 0 continued o fron from page i I 1 ask the farmers of this coli country they will find that for two years before mr cleveland wag elected the laet time they had not made d cent and the farmers compose about half the votes of this country if they ask the manufacturers they will find out that for two or three years vears before mr Clev elands baet election as a rule they worked on PO FO small a margin of profits profit 3 that bat they had bad nothing left now it is true that the democrats in that campaign declared lor for a tariff for revenue only it is true that they denounced the mckinley law but when they cime to reverse the tariff they made coade one which the new york sun says is ia one of the highest protective tariffs ever enforced in the united states its average rate falls short of the tha preceding tariff distinguished at as the mckinley tariff by very little now if this is true and who can dispute it after a triumph in st louis after the men who are telling the delegates there what the trouble is shall be snubbed and sent home surly and dissatisfied what new argument can the orator make to induce men to vote forthe for the we tell them that the matter has passed beyond the tariff that no tariff will restore normal prosperity to this country and if the republicans triumph and succeed in electing a president it is liable to be te last president they will ever elect in this world because when they get their barit fixed they will faud the people are so poor that they cannot buy foreign goods and the government will continue to run in arrears whom the gods would destroy they first make road mad it looks now as though the gods were after the republican party in dead earnest tribune |
