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Show Salt Lake Herald asks, "What will the Silver Republicans do?" Why Why should there be any Silver Republicans? IFhat does "Silver Republicans" mean? JFliat is his faith, his principles, his convictions? convict-ions? If a man has been a Republican and h;is ehanged his political opinions opin-ions so that ho no longer believes in Republican doctrines, does he not give up Republicanism? If a man adopts and believes in the principles of tho Chicago platform, plat-form, does he not cease to be a believer in Republicanism and does he not become a Democrat? Tlio Republican party believes in the single gold standard, it is absolutely opposed to the free coinage of silver, and yet there are men who beliive in tho free coinage coin-age silver who makes silver. the all-absorbing issue and call themselves them-selves ''Silver Republicans," yet the two words negative e,ch oher, The "word silver is to imply that the owner of the title "Silver Republican" Re-publican" is in favor. of silver .and the word . "Republican', implies; that the holder ot the same title is opposed to the free coinage of silver. We may with just as much propriety pro-priety say a while colored man or a while black horse or a round straight hoop. Let this misnomer, this humbug of a name "Silver Republican," be abandoned. Let every man who favors the free coinage of silver stand up for Bryan and the Chicago platform. Let those who are for the single gold standard stand by McKinley and Republicanism. Let tho people peo-ple fall in line. Tho sooner the issue is clearly drawn between the free ooinage of silver and gold and the deinanetization of silver, the sooner will the matter be settled. Rut in heavens name do not bom-boozle bom-boozle the" people with tho misnomer, mis-nomer, the chest, Silver Republican. Repub-lican. -Ogden Standard. WHAT IS A SILVER REPUBLICAN, The National Republican -League meets in Detroit next July and tlte officials of the National Legue have announced that -there was but one test of Republicanism, namely tho St. Louis platform The president ot the National League g'es further. He says such citizens of the west who believe be-lieve in the unlimited free coinage of fcilvcr CAN NOT attend the National League as Republicans. They do not recognize mongrels or half-breeds. They rule out all handles to the word Republican. -Silver Republican," Repub-lican," they claim, i a uiinnomer und.a fraud- and justly foa .Tho |