Show TIRED OF DEMOCRATIC FOLLY A RepublicanWho Had Enough 4 i andKnows It i Editor Tribune After four long years of repentance it seems like pet tins1 bacjc homeafter the same length I of absence to thus bo enabled to express ex-press and reiterate the oldtime sentiment senti-ment under which almost a lifetime has passed A conscientious loyalty to aislngle measure such as the 1C tol craze created four years ago hnri taught many an oldtime Republican a lesson which will never be forgotten It was a good one i e It taught us thai while we assisted the Democratic party Into power our assistance was not appreciated enough to even permit the cook to hand us a crust pf bread from the back door oC the Democratic Kitchen 3 and in fact It served us right Those of UB who had been taught from boyhood up to occupy a position la the front rank of Americas progressive array ar-ray should have known better Utah Democracy In retaliation for Utahs Republican aldr on the silver question which placed them in temporary tem-porary power reminds the writer hereof here-of of the Fort Pillow massacre during the Civil war the exception being that some of us escaped and are yet living monuments of our own folly Within the radius of the writers acquaintance he cannot find a single Republican whp will vote as he did then While thousands thou-sands of good Republicans during the last national campaign felt that while asserting their fealty to tho silver bearlng1 partof thcNatlon would naturally nat-urally tincture the party to which they threw their strength with alittle generosity gen-erosity not oven a thank you has ever ben returned It Is now amusing amus-ing to read of the wrangle into wMoh that party has recently exhibited their own divided ranks at the Kansas City convention on the 1C to 1 Issue Why Lord bless their Ignorant souls do they think that It takes over four ycarsi for a Republican kitten to get its eyes open Sixteen to one would please the Silver Republican as much as it would the Silver Democrat When we stop to consider the history of that party for the past Mfty years and search lor n sIngle measure of Its creation for the benefit of the Nation and then fall to find one how absolutely foolish It would be to turn tho trust over to such a conglomerate body of Ignorance and Incompetency The Democratic party might just as well flab in the Missouri river for mountain trout as to fish for Republican votes on the strength of the silver Issue this year Its Imperialistic issue as a twin to the 1C to 1 dodge deserves de-serves no consideration at all G A H |