Show INCONSISTENT REPUBLICAN DECLARATIONS The Republican party of Butte put a municipal ticket in the field last Thursday Thurs-day There is nothing at all strange about that nor is I at all remarkable that the convention reaffirmed Its allegiance al-legiance to the grand old Republican party endorsing fully l of the principles prin-ciples thereof All that was proper I and consistent for a Republican convention con-vention to do but having done this the convention then made a truly remarkable re-markable and Inconsistent declaration when It adopted this plank AVe believe that both gold and silver should be used as money metals and will use our utmost endeavors in behalf be-half of the free coinage of silver at the ratio ol 16 to 1 The InterMountain exposes the inconsistency in-consistency and ridiculousness of the endorsement of the grand old Republican Repub-lican party andthe promulgation of this silver plank The InterMountain says One of the principles of the Republican i Republic-an party which Is fully endorsed by the platform adopted yesterday is the maintenance of the gold standard The St Louis platform the Republican rule of faith declares that the gold standard must be maintained until International bimetallism is brought about The failure fail-ure of a commission to arrange with foreign powers for a conference looking to that end has been recognized by the president and his official advisers with clearcut emphatic declarations in favor fa-vor of continuing the gold standard To tally enaoise the gold standard and then without stopping to catch their breath declare for the free coinage coin-age of silver Is enough to give any man gve who is not a born philosopher the jimjams jim-jams with a bicycle headache for an accompaniment If our Republican friends the esteemed straightups had only sandwiched In the Cuban resolution resolu-tion between their endorsement of Republican Re-publican principles and the fires that were kindled upon the altars of silver it would have given a bewildered public pub-lic a chance to collect Its thoughts and sort of reconcile Itself to that principle In logic which declares that I is very peculiar how curious some strange things are Undoubtedly our Republican Repub-lican frieds meant well The trouble Ican Is they meant too much a a a a The convention did not attempt to explain ex-plain what It meant by mixing free coinage up with Republican principles but generously confided the solution of this problem to the people of the United States This was really a shrewd diplomatic move on the part of our Republican Re-publican friends Had they asked the people of Butte to interpret their platform plat-form without outside help I would have prevented our citizens from doing their other chores But If the people of the United States will tackle it a a body I we fee confident that some of the accomplished ac-complished rebus experts who are drawing enormous salaries on weekly story papers studying out enigmas will find out just what the platform means I th telfi The chances are however that te will not get into good working order In time for this campaign I Of course the convention did not attempt at-tempt to explain what it meant by trying to mix up free silver and Republican Re-publican principles perhaps for the reason that I could not have explained Free silver and Republican principles dont mix any more than oil and water do and the attempt to mix them will always prove futile The Butte Republicans Repub-licans must be a lot of unturned calces ctes to have endorsed the St Louis platform and free silver at the same time or else they assumed that the people to whom they appealed are a lot of unturned un-turned cakes And there are plenty of Republicans In Utah who are ready to I do exactly the same thing that the Republicans Re-publicans of Butte have done endorse the single gold standard and free coinage coin-age at the ratio of 16 to 1 in one and the same platform I If we are to have a war congress must lay heavy taxes at once The Dingley law will not do No protective measure will do because imports of protected goods will shrink and revenues rev-enues will fall off AVe must have revenue rev-enue duties on imported necessities tea and core first of all AVe must have increased internal revenue taxes beginning with doubling or perhaps quadrupling the ta on beer AVe must I have stamp taxes of all kinds and perhaps direct taxes and an Income tax laid so as to meet the constitutional constitu-tional requirements says the New York CommercialAdvertiser The Dingley law will not even do for the I quiet times of peace t I |