Show democratic anticipations some seme of our democratic friends are looking forward with pleasing anticipations patio ns to another silver plank in the chicago convention they also believe that a free coinage candidate will be put up we do not believe the silver men can control the convention by a two thirds majority and it takes that large a majority to nominate a silver man the two thirds rule is ia boink to give the single standard men an advantage that they will wih improve sat but we do believe that the convention will at least reaffirm the silver platform of 1892 the democrats are in the same position now that they were then they can promise anything that will likely meet with popular favor because they are virtually out and must do something to get in but what promises amoun tto in 1892 some people in the west were really pleased that democrats had won because their platform was straight out for silver and the republican platform was only a straddle we ex some favors shown silver in the future and was not carlisle a good silver man made secretary of state why we had every reason to be hopeful but look at the democratic silver record today Is there anything that could better show the double dealing dee treachery of the party it acted like the indian wh who 0 comes to you yoga professing friendship only to get an opportunity to plunge a knife in your heart it is dishonorable and decidedly dishonest in its treatment of the white metal yet the party that got into power on a false pretense and played the part of a dishonest rogue fox for four years refusing to do anything for but doing all in its power against silver notwithstanding its silver platform is ia about to come before the country again on a silver platform if that platform is to be considered at all then the question will naturally arise if the democratic party is really in favor of silver why did it not do something for the white metal on the chicago platform of 1892 when it had tle the chief executive and both branches of congress tim THE day will come when the gold standard that is being set up in so many countries for the benefit of the few money kings of or the world will topple over and then than there will be such a shaking of the financial institutions of the world sa as has never been witnessed since the fall of the roman koman empire when baring brots bros failed some few years ago their failure shook the civi civilized lizec I 1 world even the bank of england the most solid financial institution on the earth felt the shock and applied to france franca for fifty millions of pounds the fall of babylon forseen by john the Revelator may not come about in that way for are so many ways in which it can fall but that is 13 one probable e way in which the fall may be brought about wr WE hear some severe and we believe just criticism on the conduct of supervisor haws in relation to his delay in getting the provo canyon wagon road in repair it is said oaid he has a few pets to whom he h gives his favors and the result is the public is at very great inconvenience is having to travel over the hills hilla the road could have been re repaired p aired long longa ago goat at no greater cost perhaps at considerable less if the supervisor would have hare put the necessary men on an the road but he refuses goodmen good men work and the public waits it is suggested that he gets the same pay for super intending three men that he would for forty men and the job will last longer with the three when the road was wag owned by a private company such work was not tolerated IT ir was shown the other day that free coinage would double the price of 0 our ur silver mines which would result in a pro profit fit of about four million dollars while protection on wool would double the price on that product and bring a profit to the state of about a million dollars A friend calls our it attention intention to the fact that the profits on silver go largely to foreign capitalists who own mines in ia utah while every cent of on wool remains in the state YEAS by year the latter day saints college at salt lake 00 comes mes out with improved courses and facilities for I 1 education prof done the principal has left a pre preliminary limi ary announcement ce with us na for the eleventh academic year it shows the institution forging ahead rapidly another utah county boy has been placed on the faculty prof john J mcclellan of payson late instructor in music in the university school of music ann arbor mich THE provo council did itself no credit by refusing a small appropriation for the ath of july celebration probably there is ia no authority authority au thorit y for su such appropriations but ut other cities favor their celebrations and there was no objection here to the city council helping provos celebration it is clearly to the benefit of the city to keep its citizens at home as aa far as possible for their amusements THE prominent mem members bers of the party we are happy to say are not going wild over the adverse financial plank of the st louis platform rh they are waiting with time some mave will be made that will extricate the party from the unhappy predicament into which it has been precipitated let the chicago convention meet first MAJOR mckenley Mc KisLEY was very conservative in his address of acceptance ile he said nothing severe of the silver men and a nd nothing that is ia calculated to especially elate the mono metal I 1 iwa we all want the money of worth that he mentions as silver men we want it THE ogden tabernacle choir did itskin itself no honor by rushing away from provo p TOV 0 gs as it precipitately did when the people had gone to the trouble and expense to prepare for the entertainment tain ment of the tha members As gues guests 11 of the city they ought to have remained over night IT is not a needless expenditure of public money to appropriate i it t for a public celebration it would have been in the tha interest of both patriotism and prosperity pros for the council to have aided the coming celebration of independence pen dence day THE enquirer holds no prejudice against the logan journal but on general principles it is a suspicious thing when a good democratic paper as it is ia praises a man always believed to be a staunch republican THE church property has been turned over and with it some thirteen thousand dollars accumulated money on the rental of the property THE city levy is conservative enough may be raised thereby to keep the city government running but buli there will be nothing for extravagance |