Show j WHAT WILL TilE VOTERS 007 I f The voters of Utah we take it will In casting their votes for Congressman keep two things prominently In mind I First will be the material Interests of I the State second their own best Interests I Inter-ests The Republican party offers tho present situation compared with the conditions which governed when they went Into power as an earnest of what may be hoped for If their policy Is con t tlnu d The Democracy offers only some I promises and some hopes We all know how much their promises have up to date proved to be worth First there la the silver question Let us consider that for a minute They never espoused that as a principle until they had not another plank to stand upon They offer their record of 1800 That wan good but only four yearn prior to that when the need of silver rehabilitation was Just as much in evidence evi-dence as it was In 189i5 they elected Grover Cleveland nnd a full Democratic 1 Congress with the result that a law i wns passed which closed the United j I Stales against silver so effectually that I I only In foreign countries could a Utah miner Und n market for an ounce of Ills product I But when In Utah they won In 1S9C what lid the party do Can any one point lo anything which was hone for silver Did It enter Into the calculations calcula-tions of a majority of the Democratic Legislature to elect one of the sliver Democrats of the State who would be I a factor In the Senate of the United Stales Voters all know their record I Can they extract any comfort from It I There Is something more to this question IJ Jon J-on Should Mr Bryan be elected I I jresiuent next November nc could not change the present status of the coun trys finances during his term to save his life unless the Supreme court should declare the present finance bill unconstitutional something which Is not probable The old gold champions In the Democratic party understand this such men as Whitney Hill Cochran Wntlcrson Carlisle and they all propose this year to Join with and work with the regular party regardless of what the platform may conlaln regarding re-garding silver The next plank will be the trusts We will smash tho trusts the Democratic I Demo-cratic champions say How Have they ever pointed out a way Just after the antitrust law was passed by the Republicans the Democrats attained to power In every department of the Government Gov-ernment They had the President and both houses of Congress In those four years were any trusls disturbed Were there any prosecutions Can any one I llml where any proceedings were instl I tuled against them But then there is Imperialism That must be put down Do the voters of Utah understand Just what that means when proclaimed by a certain order of Democrats Nothing except that If I this country fairly acquires new territory when Republicans arc In power It must be given back even though It should become the prey of some other power or be turned over to a reign of anarchy and rapine It means that If In a certain portion of soil belonging to the United Slates some native cutthroats rise up to kill our soldiers It will be the height of wckedness for the soldiers to Interfere lnforce to arrest that policy To be more plain The United States fought through a war with Spain and then made a treaty with her through which she ceded to the Untied Slates a group of Islands In the Pacliic ocean Our country never had a thought of malting the people there less free than are the people of Utah The purpose was to establish order to open schools and to give every man absolute protec I tion In all property rights I The islands arc peopled by some thirty tribes A man who had Just sold out his coun trys cause for gold wanted to estab lisle a little despotism of his own and want to loot the capital city This was denied him and he then planned the massacre of all the white people I there Including the battery boys of Utah This brought on a war and it Is I the prosecution of this war which the Democrats claim Is a wicked war of conquest What do the voters think of It Finally two years ago the Democrats elected a man who was living in active polygamy to Congress He was denied a sent because of his defiance of law The last Democratic State convention of Utah formally indorsed thee law breaker and Insulted Congress What could a Democratic Congressmen who Indorses that plank do for Utah were he to be elected The Agricultural college needs Its annual appropriation we all want a superb now Federal building What Is the sensible way for Utah men and women to vote |