Show SILVER REPUBLICAN AID TO DEMOCRACY I S It is the fashion with some to speak j Of the Democratic victory in Utah in 11S95 as being the result of a fusion of all the silver forces that year and I some who call themselves Silver Republicans Re-publicans talk as though it was they who bore the heat and burden of the I day that year and say that the Democrats I Demo-crats owe them cry = much that without 1 their aid the Democrats would have been badly beaten That the Democrats Demo-crats wpre not beaten was not owing to any aid they got from this source the record in the case is perfectly clear and proves this It Is true that the Silver Republicans voted for Mr Bryan they were under the necessity of doing this or voting for Major McKinley or General Palmer both running on gold standard plat forms That was the extent of their aid to the Democracy and twas given nationally and not locally j I What did they do locally Did they give aid to the Democrats Not in the 1 least What did they do They did all in their power to defeat them In every respect They placed congressional j congres-sional legislative and county tickets i in the field and moved heaven and I earth for their election ft The Silver Republicans nominated ilIon ilIon i-lIon Lafayette Holbrook for congress 1 and he was endorsed by the regular i I 1 Republicans thus becoming the candidate i I i can-didate of the silver and the gold wings of the party The Democrats nominated i Judge King and the Populists Hon 1 Warren Foster What was the result Mr Holbrook received 27813 votes I J Judge King 47356 votes and Mr Foster j Fos-ter 2279 votes This made JudgeS Judge-S Kings plurality over Mr Holbrook 1 543 and his majority over all 17264 The vote for Major McKinley was 13 461 Deduct this from the vote for MrS Mr-S Holbrook and It gives the vote of the Sliver Republicans which was 14352 Fourteen thousand three hundred and Ii j I fiftytwo Silver Republicans voted for i Mr Holbrook the Republican candidate I candi-date and against Judge King the i Democratic candidate Such was the j S aid the Silver Republicans gave the i Democrats in 1S3G 1 Had Mr Holbrook not been nomInated I nom-inated the Silver Republicans could 1 with some show of reason have i claimed that Democratic success in 11S96 was in large measure due to I them Democratic success was secured i in spite of them they haying done all I In their power to defeat the party It I Is not denied that there were large accessions to the Democratic ranks I from voters who had formerly been Republicans Re-publicans but they came over to the party as Democrats and not as Sliver I Republicans the latter stopped at a halfway house and from their new position po-sition attacked the Democratic party and sought to defeat it No one complains com-plains of that but those who did it I should not tryto make it appear that such action was giving aid to the Democratic party If fusion on the congressional legislative legis-lative and county tickets was not desirable de-sirable In 1S36 why is It desirable on the same tickets in 1S3S |