Show PARTY STAND OF THE UOlrTEIlS I The action of the delegates to the St Louis convention who bolted continues to be the all absorbing topic Among the Republicans opinion is divided the I majority perhaps justifying the bolt Those who do not apprOve the bblt condemn the belters in severe terms Ardent silver men themselves they say they fail to see wherein the cause of silver is aided in the least They only see a dlaadvaniage in attempting attempt-ing to work outside of party lines Furthermore it is their opinion that the bolt will solidify more than ever the ranks of the gold men and drive to them those Republicans who were inclined to free silver but as yet could not see their way to declaring for it Independent of international agreement agree-ment Some do not hesitate to say that the action of the bolters is foolish fool-ish asinine and wrong in every respect Others of a more even temperament deprecate it as being exceedingly ex-ceedingly unwise and as tending to disrupt the party within the state Sure It is that if the action of Senator Cannon Representative Allen and Mr Kearns in bolting the St Louis convention conven-tion was right and laudable and such as to deserve applause then the action ac-tion of Senator Brown Mr McCornick and Colonel Trumbo was wrong and such as deserves condemnation Both cannot be right if their actions can be measured by a standard of party right and wrong If Senator Cannon and thLse who followed him were right then Senator Brown and his followers were wrong and vice versa A bolter from a national convention cannot be a representative of his part no matter how deeply attached he may be to all its principles there the-re res ntat1e Is he who accepts the will of a majority of the convention no matter how he may disagree with its patform declarations If the Republican Re-publican party In Utah Indorses the action of Messrs Cannon Allen and Kearns it will simply declare Itself no longer a Republican party The St Lcuis convention fixed and declared the principles of the Republican party and was most emphatic in its declaration declara-tion against free silver The party in Utah must accept those principles or throw up its claim to be Republican no matter how much it may believe in protection bounties and all the doctrines doc-trines that have distinguished the party in the past Sol disant Republicans Re-publicans in Utah must remember that they cannot be free silver men arid Republicans at the same time this fact cannot be straddled Senator Cannon Representative Allen and Mr Kearns took a bold courageous > and proper stand for free silver but by their stand they have ceased to be Republicans No one recognizes this fact more clearly than I they themselves r |