Show WiLL TEE KEPTTBLICAUS IN DOSE SILVER I When the republicans meet in their eLy convention to nominate a candidate I candi-date for mayor and a general ticket I what will they do when It comes to endorsing the St Louis platform It I is an impcrtant question and one that cannot be ignored That platform plat-form is pronouncedly against the free and independent coinage of silver the people of Salt Lake City and of Utah I I are as decidedly in favor of free silver I What will the Republicans in the first convention they have held since the I presidential election do In this matter If they endorse the administration they I condemn free silver if they declare their adherence to the principle of it I I I they thereby condemn the administration I administra-tion while if they ignore It they there I by proclaim themselves moral cowards No doubt there will be a struggle In I I the convention over this very question All Silver Republicans who may attend I I should insist upon a declaration in favor I I fa-vor of silver that the people of the nation may know that they are still I true to their principles If they do not I I do this the enemies of silver will say 1 that it is losing strength in the west I in its very stronghold and such a j I failure would give but too much color i to the assertion There should be no I political convention in Utah in which the position of the people on the silver question should not be made plain and unmistakable |