Show WEY NOT DECLARE FOR SILVER SILVERI I If Republicans and nonpartisans are in favor of free silver it would have been the easiest matter in the world to have so said in their municipal platforms plat-forms the same as the Democrats did Then when the election is over no matter which party may win it would have been utterly impossible for any cite anywhere to have said that the people of Salt Lake City had lost any faith inor weakened in their loyalty to silver If no reference had been made to It in our local campaign it having become an issue in municipal campaigns elsewhere it would have been said by the enemies of silver and they are not all dead 19 any means I that the people of this city had become lukewarm on the question If not positively posi-tively discouraged Gentlemen may protest as they please that the silver duestion has no place I iu the local campaign while papers may call names as they will yet the I fact remains that the people throughout out the country are everywhere watching watch-ing the local elections to ascertain what the sentiment is on the great question that was the chief issue last year An I Cxpresident of the United States and a member of the present cabinet say that it is In issue The papers of the country that are discussing the municipal munic-ipal campaign in New York are discussing dis-cussing it chiefly from the point of view of its bearing on the silver ques I tion tionAll All recognize that the verdict against I silver at the polls last November only settled the question temporarily I though for a time those who were victorious vic-torious thought otherwise but even they do not so think now The question will be before the people everywhere in the congressional elections next fall and this is a reason why those who are interested in it no matter what view they may hold arc so anxious to have some expression by the people on it this year that they may have something some-thing on which to base forecasts as to congressional elections in 1S9S The Democrats of Indianapolis made a specific declaration in favor of free I silver while the Republicans reaffirmed the St Louis platform The city went Democratic by a plurality of some 4060 Was the silver Question in issue or not If all the parties in Salt Lake City are In Tavor of silver what objection could there possibly be to their saying so |