| Show I 1 WHAT ARE THOSE ISSUES WHfT The local goldbug organ explains for the benefit of exSenator Dubois that whim i supported Bryan in 1896 it wanted a Republican congress elected I because with the silver question settled set-tled there are some others And this I is the reason it favored the maintenance mainten-ance of a silver Republican organization organiza-tion in Utah three years ago I explains plains A year ago or thereabouts the silver Republican organization of Utah disbanded dis-banded There was nothing for He publican to do but join the Democratic party with its Chicago platform or the Republican party with its St Louis platform unless they chose to link their fortunes with Populism whose chief exponent ex-ponent and leading candidate in the state had pronounce it a thing of the past The Republican party of Utah today is not a silver party and makes no such pretensions I is a part of the national na-tional organization of which Mark Hanna is chairman The local organization organi-zation is controlled by men who never renounced the national party or its platform by I R Rogers Arthur Brown Arthur Pratt Arthur Thomas Thom-as Glen Miller and Alma El dredge men who naver wavered in their devotion to McKinley who stood by the St Louis convention I when DuboIs Cannon Teller Pettigrew and Towne walked out and washed their hands of the corruption that ruled itS < > < it-S > < S > When the Republican party Surrendered Sur-rendered to the agents of Wall street three years ago the Tribune said so I said that no silver man could stultify himself by remaining with such a organization It said that it would never falsify its 20year record by is 20yer supporting sup-porting a candidate or a party with a platform favoring gold I repeated this declaration over and over again and again I pronounced international I I bimetallism an impossibility and every resolution favoring it a snare I characterized char-acterized William McKinley as the tool l I of an unscrupulous gang and de lared that the country had never produced a worse enemy to bimetallism I warned Republicans against having any thing to do with the regular Republican Re-publican party I wanted Arthur I Brown and the delegates who remained in the St Louis convention tarred and feathered l wanted I distinqtly understood that the writer will never support again in all his life a gold candidate on a sold platform no matter what party may present him or what his claims on general principle may be for pie the suffrage of the American peor pieAnd And now it calls Fred Dubois Henry M Teller F J Cannon and C A Towne to account for their repudiation of Republicanism on the ground that there are other issues than silver At I the same time it has the unblushing audacity to repeat that hackneyed expression ex-pression of goldbugism that only one out of every ten of the party that hft declared in its national platform for silver believe in I Who and what is it to call into question the sincerity or the integrity of men the latchet of whose shoes I Is unworthy to loosen > < > < j > What are these other issues to which it makes mysterious allusions Does our contemporary refer to the tariff When the Provo Enquirer called its attention in 1898 to the J importance im-portance ot the tariff the Tribune said The present tariff Wilsons Is higher than any tariff that ever was except one I does not help Utah especially and we will tell the Enquirer a secret The men in the east Republicans who are shout Ing tariff do not propose whatever changes there may be in the tariff to make it of any especial benefit to the men of the west I likewise took Arthur Brown to task for referring even to other issues while the silver issue is pending I said Senator Brown makes silver subordinate to protection in his speeches and insists that the present Democratic tariff is a free trade tariff The present tariff Wil sons is the highest protective tariff ever passed except One it is a tariff that is satisfactory to a good many branches of manufactures in the east I Is not a discriminating tariff The senator always al-ways insists that while we allfeel favorable favor-able to free silver Republicans hold that protection is the more essential article of faith He Is frank and fair In his statements state-ments and people can Judge from them exactly how he stands In our judgment no tariff in the world can do this countryany good or begin to restore prosperity to the masses ot the people until silver shall be rehabilitated But the Republican party got Into power and enacted the Dlngley iariff Jaw This was the crowning act of the tariff legislation of protectionists I embodied their best ideas and enlisted the support of their greatest statesmen Yet t is a farce and a fraud a travesty upon true protection an infamous Bhemq of extortipnr and robbery and the Salt Lake Tribune has told usso Then t rUcnnot be One of fh setJ f s1 fW h71ile o tith j < i r I P I I the goldbus and 4 regard as p paramount ° to silver k < S > < 3 > < > Is Philippine retention one of them The Tribune tins > Declared that went W we-nt no Philippines s in ours Lon after Dcweys victory it pointed out the annoyances and troubles to sure ensue and delivered an opinion that the islands would be more Inconvenient and expensive than advantageous to this I country whereforethey should be relinquished re-linquished to that Washington of Wasingon I Luzon Aguinaldo and his band of patriots who had been fighting for many years in cause infinitely higher han that in which ourRevolutionary forefathers were engaged Is the presidents conduct of the war with Spain an issue by the side of which silver dwindles into an infants grave Surely not For our neighbor saldrmore hard things of Alger and the characterless policy of the administra res pHcy tion of the fools in high places and the bondbuyers at the helm of the gross incompetency at the head of the war department and the criminal neglect of Volunteers than any paper in the country coun-try it dfd this too during the war tr ad when European powers were gathering up without restraint or the restriction of a censorship every unfavorable comment I made in the American press 000 What then are these other issues that the Tribune holds paramount to silVer It has no right to make issues of the personal grievances or disappointments disap-pointments of silver Republicans who remain loyal I to the cause I they are not complaining why should the Tribune Tri-bune weep Then what are the issues that bind our contemporary to the organization of Hanna after the silver Republican organization of Utah has disbanded and i recognizes but one Republican party the party of Brown and Miler and Deoly and Thomas in the state of Utah Are spoils and promises prom-ises the paramount issues 4 |
