Show THEIR EYES SHOL1D BE OPENED The question is asked whether Republicans Re-publicans can point to one act of their party which is or has been favorable to the free coinage of silver The answer an-swer is no they cannot nor can anybody point to such an act for them Ever since the law of 1873 by which the Republicans in Congress demonetized silver their party has been opposed to its restoration The adhesion of large numbers of people in the silver states and territories terri-tories to the Republican party is remarkable re-markable in view of their professed belief in free silver coinage Not only are the national leaders of the Republican Repub-lican party extremely hostile to the remonetization of silver but the great bulk of the rank and file of the party I are with them on this question There can be no dubiety on that point At the conventions that have been held whether of Republican League clubs or other gatherings not one of them has pronounced in favor of immediate independent free silver coinage but most of them have declared de-clared to the contrary In the instances in-stances where hostility to the socalled silver craze has not been pronounced I the utmost that could be gained by the small silver minority has been silence on the subject The idea which they entertained that they had achieved a great victory in that silence is proof positive that the majority were anti silver in the highest degree During the late campaign thousands of the people of Utah were deluded into the belief that the Republican party was favorable to the free coinage coin-age of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 with gold No doubt the Republican candidates can-didates and orators who deceived them were themselves advocates of silver But they must have known that the national Republican party was not with them but against them on that important issue Why the people of Utah should support sup-port a party that is dead against their interests when cne of the tenets of Republicanism is the fostering of sec tional requirements and the promotion of selfish local demands Is something very difficult to understand It is not claimed that the Democratic Demo-cratic party is united on the silver question It is not denied that many prominent Democrats share the views of their compeers and the great masses mas-ses of the Republican party on the silver sil-ver question But it is contended that the majority of the Democratic party favor the remonetization of silver at the present ratio and that therefore the only hope for silver Is in the Democratic Dem-ocratic party The aim of all true silver men in I the United States should be to secure the nomination of a silver President by the Democratic party in 1896 and the election of such a President and as many free silver candidates for Congress Con-gress as possible If that cannot be accomplished and within the lines of the Democratic party silver wllj bo again relegated to the rear and the cause may be reckoned as postponed for an Indefinite period We hODe that before another elec tion takes place the people of Utah will wake up to the facts of the situation sit-uation and that they will refuse to be pulled in the future as they have been in the past by the sophisms and deceptions of Republican officeseekers and stump orators |