Show I TWO YEARS HENCE In his speech at the theatre Mr Roberts Rob-erts summed up the Issue In thIs campaign cam-paign when he said There is i no need of discussing the economic phase or this question for thu voters of Utah have already arrived at a conclusion concerning the necessity for bimetallism or monetary reform Therefore th only question Is will the Democratic partY or the Republcan party put Into effeCt that system for which we have a1nadr exprsse our preferences The people or thIs state as of the west general have ample knowledge of the silver cucston so far as its economic bearings go to determine whether or not they want the free and eendent coinage of silver or whether they are in favor of mjn for mn taming the existing gold standard They want free coinage that Is nIne tnths of them do The cueston then Is which party will enact such laws on the financial question as the people of Utahfavor I Is flot necessary to review the var bus attempt at slverlegislaton since the Republican party demonetized s1 < c I yen by droppIng the SIV1 dolarfrom the list or coIns in 1873 all that is necessary I nec-essary for the purposes of this campaign cam-paign the entIre record from 1873 to lt9G Is in favor of the Democrats and I against the Republicans is to acer tain the position of the two great parties I par-ties an the question today In 1896 for the first time in the his I tcry of the country the DemQcratc and Republican parties defined their pod ton on the question of the free and independent In-dependent coinage of silver In their national platform the Democrats put n plank mandlng the free unlimited I and indeendent coInage of silver at the ratio of IG to 1 In their platform the Republicans put a plank declaring against the free and unlimited coinage or silver without international agreement agree-ment and saying that the existing gold I standard must be maIntaIned until such areement could b had The declarations of the two parties must be the guide of the people in making mak-ing up theIr minds whIch party will j enact legislation favorable to silver I r e Democratic party Is pl dsed to i flee silver the Republican party Is pledged to the maintenance of the gold I standard The Issue of 1896 will be the great issue in 1900 Will the people or I Utah be true to silver In iSIS as they I were two year sInce I they Drove true to i now they will not be reCreant I to i two years hence The elections t this year are preliminary to those of 1200 In the light ofthe history of silver legislation i since 1873 and In the light I of the declarations of the national plat i forms in 1896 there can be no doubt in the minds of sinctre friends or free coinage whIch party will be friendly to sIh6r and which hostie to I whIch wi enact legislation for its restora ton t Its proper place In the coInage system of the country which will enact legislation to strengthen the existing gold standard The Democratic party is the friend of silver the Iteptbiicnn part Is the nemy1f m r e s UtahgeslaiS9S so will it go two r years herce < |