Salt Lake Herald | 1898-09-07 | Page 4 | Where Silver is Dead

WHERB SILVER > IS DEAD i Temporary issues arisein every campaign cam-paign But the sIlver question is not one If that kind It Is permanent t The battle for the free and unlimited r coinage of silver wlll continue until victor Is achieved The two great national parties ere te never more determined to fight this difference out to the end than they are today C In easter states where Democrats rt were very much afraid of silver two years ago they are enthusiastically advocating free coinage tOday In every Democratic convention held this year the slIver clement was in full control and in every Democratic platform which was not restricted for fusion purposes to local issues the Chicago platform was reaffirmed On the contrary Republican conventions conven-tions have deqlard for gold throughout through-out heeast and every state convention conven-tIon lid by the Republicans of the west las endorsed the financial policy of the a administration WyomIng Republicans declared for McKinley and the sIngle standard In Idaho t1te did the same Nebraska Republicans were afraid of the word gold in 1899 but now it is their shibboleth shib-boleth Iowa Republicans have become aggressive champIons of the gold standard The slIver question is more of a party issue today than it ever was Silver is dead only in the Republican party