Show SILVERS LENT PLATFORMS I To all our morning contemporary an imbecile and its editorials silly would be an acknowledgment of its right to choose the weapons It is quite possible to make our neighbor angry enough for all practical purposes without with-out indulging In vituperation The Tribune has a supercilious way of treating an adversary and a certain positive manner about stating an absolute abso-lute falsehood that is calculated to discourage all opposition If the facts were not against it and the record clear one might well hesitate before engaging engag-ing It in controversy For Instance it said yesterday morning morn-ing that Utah Republicans were for silver when the Utah Democrats were supporting Cleveland the goldite on a silversilent platform Those words are nicely put together but they fall to state the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth Utah Republicans have never been for silver when Utah Democrats were not Whoa Utah Democrats were sop I porting Cleveland the goldite Utah I Republicans were supporting Harrison I the goldite If Cleveland ran upon a silversHent platform so did Harrison The Democratic Dem-ocratic platform in 1892 was just as friendly to bimetallism as was the Republican Re-publican platform and not nearly so ambiguous When the Tribune said I that the Democratic platform was fJIersilent it wilfully and knowingly know-Ingly misrepresent the fact Its own c9lumns belie its words The Democratic national platform of 1892 the one upon whIch Cleveland ran < = for the presiel1cy contained this planle r I Po Ve favor the free coinage both of gold and silver on such a basis as will maintain the two metals on a parity with each oUierh I The Republican platform of that same year contained only the following follow-ing reference to the question The Republican party demands the use of both gold and silver as a standard stand-ard of money with such restrictions and under such provisions to be determined deter-mined by legislation as wlll secure the maIntenance of the parity of values of the two metnls so that the purchasing I and debtpaying power of a dollar whether sliver gold or paper shall beat be-at an times equal WhIch was silversilent The one that favored the free coinage of gold and sliver or the one that demanded the use of both under the restric lions since put in force by the gold bugsVhat What an immense amount of assurance assur-ance the Tribune has to misrepresent matters the truth of which is so easily ascertained Is it the result of a failing fail-ing memory or a growing contempt for the Intelligence of Its readers In another paragraph as if to show its utter disregard of the truth its I total lack of shame the Tribune says that whereas Harrison was running I on a distinctively bimetallic platform Cleveland succeeded in suppressing all mention of sliver in the Democratic national platform With an its practice the Tribune never told a greater falsehood than that It may have told neater ones and possibly clumsier ones But it never old a bigger one surely When it finds how it is cornered our contemporary may twist and squirm and say that it referred to the Utah Democratic platform as being silver silent Here is a nlapk from the territorial terri-torial platform adopted by the Democrats Demo-crats of Utah in 1892 Ve look upon the demonetization of silver by the Republican party in 1873 as a crime and demand the restoration of the white metal to its proper position posi-tion as a part of the national currency cur-rency Is that s11versl1ent It is in order for our neighbor to cry out again and complain that we have accused it of perjury and to call upon Allah to witness its innocence |