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Show IN A BAD FIX. " Probably the host campaign nt ucrlal ever lurni-ilied by the oppoltlorf is that contained In the following letter: Cleveland, O.. An. J), 180. Ilom Olcu Miller, United States Marshal, Mar-shal, Salt Lake City, Utah. My OunrSIr: 1 have been Informed thai It has been sinreeatoil that tliu lto-luibllean lto-luibllean nnrly of Utah, at tho next State Uonventlo i, endors i in Its platform, plat-form, the free eolnatjo of el ver. As ohiilrmau of the' National Committee. 1 prot'-lt ngitlttftt the llpuldlcaus of any GUito taklntr sucii action. It wnuul be clearly In opposition lo the pi loci-pies loci-pies of the party as declared In the platform at the National Convention at St. Louis, and I t rim you will use y.iiir influence ami efforts to the end that that declaration may he sustained. Truly yours, M. A, Hanna. There never was the slightest tiups-tlon tiups-tlon as lo the declaration of tho St. L(iyi),;jbitririiuTp. favor of the single gold standard, but tliu above leltur has tho. effcqt . of putting that class of Republicans, Re-publicans, solV-siyled "Silver lleptib-lleiins," lleptib-lleiins," In a very bad hole, and ono ft oiii which their leader have been unable to extricate thorn. The fact that the Bait Lake County Republican Coiuuiltteu still attempt to mainta'n that tho Republicans can go Into tho campaign under a banner reading "Silver, Protection and Roolproolty," dons nnl alter the f iU that in order to be Republic ui you must bo for uohl only, nor dons It in the least decolve tho people. If any p Msible hopu ever existed for R-ipil'ilican slices In Utah this fall, that hope Is absolutely dissipated dissi-pated by the llanna letter quoted above l'or tt effect therefore we must regard It as ono of the most valuable val-uable nuhllo.doeuiuont ever ulvon to the public. " Wo take pleasure In noting not-ing the largo number of former Republicans, Repub-licans, who repudiate the dictation of the great Republican boss and are dally bcco'mlng Democrats. Republicanism, Republi-canism, llaiinitfsm and goldluiglsin ate synonymous terms and you cannot on-dotse on-dotse one without endorsing tho others. |