Show CRANE DESERTS THEM Former Republican Leader Is No Longer a Republican PEOPLE WERE BETRAYED STKINLEYEANNA GANG OUGHT TO BE HURLED FROM POWER A Scorching Arraignment of the Republican Re-publican Party By the Former State Chairman Will Become a Free Lance In Politics An Appeal Ap-peal to the Old Soldiers The sons of Utah are making political politi-cal history al a high pressure rate these days It has not been many months since Senator Frank J Cannon the late ideal of the high tariff extremists extrem-ists declared upon the Iloor of the 1 nitcd States senate that the Republican Republic-an tariff robbed the people And now tht Hon Charles Crane boldly charges that the people of the west and the veteran vet-eran soldiers of the whole country have xcn sold out and betrayed by the McKinley Mc-Kinley administration and the Republican Repub-lican party A Tlr Crane was one of the founders of 1 the Republican party of Utah was state chairman of the party during thc memorable campaigns at one tinu had the gubernatorial nomination I within his grasp has a brilliant war record was twice wounded and has nver asked for a pension and his opinions have always carried weight with his party and his comrades During Dur-ing the presidential campaign he was an ardent McKinleylte urged the old 5 > dler and all others to support the Republican ticket and himself traveled a lung distance in order to cast his ballot bal-lot for the major Now he announces he is no longer a Republican lie feels that al old soldiers and the H > ople h been decelvtd and betrayed and ur s al veterans and good citizens tt 1ht < > and hurl from power the whole M KirleyHanna goldbug combination H will not for the present he sa sid s-id ntlfy himself with any other party but will be a free lance in politics URGED TO TAKE THE LEADERSHIP LEADER-SHIP Mr Crane defined his attitude as expressed ex-pressed above to a Herald reporter i who called upon him to ascertain the I truth of the report that he had been urged by his old party associates to again take the reins of leadership He Oil not deny that he had been approached ap-proached by many prominent Repub 1 tans rnd urged to resume the party 1 ddiiship but to all these appeals he I had turned a deaf ear I I I told them he said that I could nt and would not advocate a politi tal policy Unit had closed half the jl mines of my state thrown thousands of people out of employment reduced the alue aTIBlSEX production of labor I i1i 1 ln I tjrreased the value of real estate 50 fIr r cent covered the state with tramps and brought destitution and want to thousands of honest worthy families I In tides I am absolutely and diamet IKally opposed t < > its financial policy I strd where I believed the party stood I in the campaign for the remonetiza I t tin of silver In all the campaigns in i A Utai I have talked and advocated the I t rein netization of silver I have quoted I v the national Republican platforms I j have quoted McKinleys speeches I have read to them the resolutions of 1 the Ohio Republican state convention I of which President McKinley was a member which declared that the bonds of the government were payable in greenbacks I have quoted the ut terames of John Sherman who de dir > J the bondholders should be paid In the money he purchased his bonds with and the utterances of Major m u President McKinley when he went about the country holding aloft a silver sil-ver dollar and declaring It to be good enough for him good enough for the farmer and the workingman good i < rrugh for the soldier and ought to be good enough for the bondholder I BELIEVED IN MKIXLEY j I i hIn Ogden when I placed that old j war Horse of our party John E Booth I I in nomination for congrebs I was i hissed when I mentioned McKinleys I name I believed McKinley would ful j Jill every expectation and I never I wiMred in my devotion to him until j his secretary of the treasury said the objects 1 have in mind in the series of I lrvlslons offered by me are fomto commit the country more thoroughly to I the soW standaid and remoie all pos siMe doubts and fears on that point When I read this I doubted and won I di red McKinley did not kick Gage 4IUt of the treasury building for placing him and iiir party in a false position but lu did net and finally the president in a bptfh In New Yoik at a banquet ea < h plate said to cost 100 surrounded bv the glare and glitter of 5000000 011 said Whatever may be the language lan-guage of the contract the United States will discharge all its obligations in the currency recognized as the best throughout the civilized world at the F time of inyment This linally opened my eyes and compelled me to see the fact that the party had gone over and was controlled con-trolled and dominated by the bondholders bond-holders and money monsters who are now debauching the American people I can now see that under the blanket and darkness of sophistry the leaders of the Republican party have been using us-ing us to pull the chestnuts out of the fire and when they have triumphed and are by the power of gold once more entrenched in power they place their thumb to their nose and laugh at us hI feel that Utah Kepublicans have been betrayed and I for one am not apolitical a-political chameleon or political paralytic t paraly-tic to overlook the wrong As well might the crucifixion of Christ be denied de-nied and condoned as to defend the party < > f Lincoln for the crime of 1S73 and the further accentuation of that crime in 1897 WITHOUT A PARTY When asked which party he would now espouse Mr Crane replied that he like thousands of other Republicans Republic-ans was without a party that he was a firm believer in protection and lec jproclty and should until the return of publican party to the faith of its founders be a free lance espousing any and every measure that wouUl build up Utahs industries open her mines give employment to her idle citizens and make prosperous where Si now was only idleness and want A QUESTIONS ANSWERED Mr Crane has Just written a lengthy reply to an editorial in the American Tribune published at Indianapolis which Is calculated to open the eyes of old soldiers and the people generally to the infamies of the present admlnis tration It is as follows Editor American TrIbun Indianapolis hid A copy of a recent issue of the Tribune I Is before me In which you propound In your editorial several questions among which arc the following Will the president at the national encampment en-campment to be held in Cincinnati repeat the kindly words uttered at Buffalo Will ho tell his comrades why they have not been able to realize upon these promises and why they have been turned down for civilians and why he enforces civil service ser-vice rules against them why he gives aid and encouragement to Spain and why hs favors the retirement of tho greenback green-back why hj continues to follow in the footsteps of Cleveland etci etc Mr Editor if you will permit and will agree not to eliminate part of the reply I think 1 can answer thoso questions sat isfabtorilv and intelligently I for the president pres-ident Comrade McKinley like others who desire de-sire the suffrage of the people to get Into oflice of emolument and power and when In to retain these offices will do as he hat done before He will laud the old I soldiers for their bravery and gallantry Ion I-on many tields of battle He will paint in vivid colors their sufferings in the south I tell how they want forth in the time of peril and the nations danger etc etc and the old soldiers will throw their caps aloft and shout themselves hoarse He will then get down from the lofty pinnacle pinna-cle of patriotism and tell how somepeople want free silver want a depreciated dollar I dol-lar to pay off the nations defenders In Collars worth only 41 cents How the bonds of the government and the interest thjreon must be paid in the best money in tho world viz gold the nations debt must be honored our credit must I never be doubted etc etc He will tell the old soldiers to have patience and as you advisj the old soUHers of the Stlllwell post who protesting pro-testing at the injustice heaped upon them by a president and his appointments from whom they expected so much to have patience and be guided by wisdom nobler than passion WhyMr Editor what poor simple old fellows the G A R of Stillwell post I must be If Comrade McKinley will do nothing how can a petty congressman Do these old soldiers not know that Tom Reed the speaker of th > house will not permit any action any bill to be introduced intro-duced except after his ofilcial vising Are there not scores of old soldiers I in tg rsn I sloeCs congress now Are their I months not shut Is there a Republican congress man woo dare say IllS soul is nisv me party lash has been cracked No more pensions for the defenders of the flag say the bondholders who not only control con-trol Comrade McKinley but the Republican Repub-lican party Mr Editor evsrv old soldier appreciates your efforts in their behalf we believe you are honest in your desire to help them but my God must we continue to beg fof this paltry pension Must we groval In the dust Must we be lick spltters must we become liars that we may receive the pittance Ioled out to us grudgingly by those wiom we have place in power that these Shylocks thesa vampires these cormorants may continuo con-tinuo to prey upon the substance of the people Mr Editor the old soldiers are getting few in number they are not the political force they once were Then such being the fact is it not better to denounce as best we can and hurl from power those who have for 30 y > ars ben holding the cup of promise to our lips and breaking it to our hearts who are maicins us their tools at the dictation of British bondholders who are not content with striking down half the money of the world and thus enslaving us hut seek by that very means to make us thslr TI nrle i litlcal and financial r vassals forever President McKinley will pratj about II the honest dollar and tell the old soldiers sol-diers they must be paid in the best money In the world that the widows savings must not be depreciated by any act of the nation etc etc But he will not tell them that the homemade home-made greenback was good enough for us old l ignorant fools from Cl to fiS and Is gpod enough fr us today HP wont tell them that fln March 1 1S5S the nations debt was SOOOi1OO and on March 1 I ISM just 30 years nftsr Itwaa J12375 < X000 notwithstanding the fr ct that we have nlr fJneal I pnI43fO5JXlAii > jn Interest alone almost as much as the original debt Think you old soldiers if you have the courage to do so that we have paid in principal and I interest alone J5000000000 and yet aftr having paid nearly twice the original debt it has reduced it only onehalf He will not say that these Inlted States j bonds were bought by greanbacks worth i 10 cents on the dollar at the time that these sharks these high priest In the synagogues of gold with JCOO In greenbacks I green-backs purchased a 1000 gold bond He wont tell th = > old soldiers that when J Pierpont Morgan of the Morgan Belmont Bel-mont and Rothschild gold syndicate was called before the senate committee and I asked why it was that the president must I go to him and him alone for gold replied j ha must come to him as his syndicate controlled all the gold in the world I What a condition that a nation of 70 000fr03 of free t men should be compelled com-pelled to beg of a handful of money gamblers gam-blers and sharpers to be allowed to conduct con-duct their affairs at whatever rate of I tribute these monarchs might choose to fixShame Shame on American manhood that permits per-mits H Oh Mr Editor let us for once be men let us invoke the spirit that animated us I from 61 to 63 and again speak out Let 1ni 1 r t ht us no longer be slaves let us hurl 1 into the teeth of Comrade McKinley vhen with forked tongue he covers us with fulsome l flattery that In has been false to every I trust fale to the teachings of Abraham Lincoln false to the common people who I placed him in power Mr Editor the financial lines are being drawn tighter and tighter around us Man is the creature thi slave to his nees < hltieK and when his necessities are lashing lash-ing him as with a whip of lire when he looks into the faces of his holloweyed children when the Icy blasts of winter gage about his lifeless hearth and his children shrink and cry from the deathly chill it benumbs his faculties it saps hlg manhood and makes him a coward or It arouses within him the tiger and nwks him a demon See and let the old soldiers see the spectnclo of the president presi-dent of tin Inlted States Comrade McKinle at the feast of Belshazzer in New York in a building costing JIOOCWOoO surrMind bv the 1000 representatives of S5000 OiTOnoo In gold each plate costing 5100 intoxicated by all this glitter of gold and wealth telling these human monstrosities mon-strosities these men who never tolled nor spun who never did a brave ded never lifted a hand to defend the flag these human vultures that the national debt principal and interest shall be paid In mfi rlt gold i3n purchased by the blood hII3 toll of the nation think you old soldiers of this feast of th > financial gods and then at the shivering holloweyed children child-ren of the old soldiers standing before him begging for bread Mr Editor these may be strong words hut not strong enough for the occasion Teach the old soldiers to stand upright once more to be men and not permit the fear of not securing an Increaseof a I pitiful pension to make of them cringing part slaves CUARLES CRANE Tenth Ind V S M F Vat GIrd Ind Salt Lake April 7 iSIS |