Show IX TIE 31KIALEY MIRE In its struggle to make itself appear ap-pear consistent the Tribune stumbles Into such deep holes that it is sometimes some-times difficult to see just where it Is For instance to justify itself in asking the people to vote the Republican ticket it feels obliged to hold out the idea that after all McKinley and the gold standard men who will control his administration are really friends of silver and can be depended upon to champion financial reform if we send Republicans from the west to reason with them wih That Is a position assumed by some alleged silver men who have desired an excuse for supporting the Mark Hanna candidate but it is absolutely opposed to the attitude of those Republicans Re-publicans who hold that it is necessary to elect Bryan These insist and most correctly that there will pe > no hope for silver In the event of McKinleys election How can a man who holds that view vote for a Republican congressman con-gressman and a Republican senator on the theory that these could induce I McKinleyjJto favor silver Talleyrand sometimes played Napoleon I Napo-leon false in order to curry favor with his enemies if the latter should trIumph I uinpli over him but he never benefited bene-fited himself thereby or advanced the I interests of France Nor would the I men who have enlisted in the silver army benefit themselves or their cause by setting sail to catch any McKinley breeze The situation Is simply this The Republicans who are in the fight for I silver know that there is no hope for it from the Republican party They have therefore determined to support sup-port Mr Bryan and the only question with some of them Is as to how far they should go in building up a party at his back The logic of the case is so directly In favor of their giving their support to the Democratic candidates can-didates for congressman and senator and so many of th m are announcing their purpose to do so that those who are attempting to here hold together a branch of the antisilver party find it necessary to offer the hope that McKinley Mc-Kinley will give us a silver adminis t tration traton I I seems to The Herald that it would be a great deal more consistent to I support McKinley The necessity under un-der which the Tribune finds Itself of i making implied promises for McKinley In order to save votes for the Republican Repub-lican congressional and legislative tickets lays baA the Inconsistency of its position and emphasizes the invulnerability in-vulnerability of the proposition that none but McKinley men can consistently consist-ently support Republicans for congress or the legislature that earnest supporters I sup-porters of Bryan must inevitably make their assistance effective by voting to I give him Democratic support in the house and senate The Tribune further displays the weakness of Its cause when it seeks to introduce such questions as that of state legislation on irrigation as a foil in the contest Partisans are inclined to assert that their party can always do things better than the opposition hilt of course every candid man will admit that it Is absurd to assume that a Republican legislature would deal with an Irrigation problem more wIselY than It would be handled by Democrats < But I the Tribunes idea were correct cor-rect still the people of Utah would not on that account jeopardIze the interest of free coinage r in the small I LC < Jir 6 i bl r 1 est particular they cannot be diverted from their purpose by any side issues They know that i is necessary to elec I Bryan and that I is highly essential that Democrats be sent to the house I and ttnats and they tT gcng to vote that way because I is the only logical consistent course to pursue pur-sue They are jiotj going to permit themselves to be deceived by false hopes held out respecting McKinley nor will they permit irrigation or anv their work other question to neutralize i for silver |