Show BEN 1111 E interviewed ho to his opinion of the political situation ben 13 rich arrived in glogau lo 10 an theother the other day and stopped over for a few hours attending to basi bal ti ness As many stories have been afloat in the state p pipers I 1 of late re regarding ardin him particularly the nature of his hia visits to logan a JOLI reporter interviewed him and apken the nature of visits ile he said paid this is the third time I 1 hive have visited cache this his year year my first visit was for the th purpose of att attending eDding the funeral services of my brothers child it should be unnecessary for me to state that I 1 had no interest in politics during that visit my second visit consisted in remaining over here three hours and a half at my broth brotheris bro thersa erss home on business contested con nested with tile the r rich lich family the only words warda spoken by bv myself on 01 politics during that visit was in mr knowles butcher shop when a democrat gave his hia opinion of senator cannons record in the senate I 1 simply expressed myself myed lf as agreeing with him in what he be qaid aid out of this thia the heralds correspondent has made much capital and sent out many untruths un truths I 1 am here now for only a few hours but am on politics I 1 would urge urge the silver republicans to organize throughout the county to operate cooperate co cd with other silver organizations izat ions in the great battle for silver to do all in their power to keep silver republicans and pop ulises of f other states stales in line for the great battle of 1900 the fight is a national one and can never be won there is a national union throughout all the states I 1 am for that union let the legislature be made UD up of silver men and let them elect a senator and see to it that he is ia a good true silver man let that be his paramount qualification be he be a democrat populist or silver re RB publican the national chairmen of the three silver organizations have given thia matter much thought and they say the cause of i ilver can only come out a winner by uniting our forces and I 1 have faith in n tle the conclusions they have reached A when hen mr rich was asked if I 1 he ie did not think all good silver men should be ba damoci democrats ats he answered look up the national platforms and you will find that in 1892 while the democrats were howling for cleveland and the republicans public ans were doing the same thing for harrison and were devoting all their energies to a fight on the tariff question the populists lists had bad met mat in national con bention ven tion declared for the free frea and unlimited coinage of silver nominated as good a silver man ai bryan and carried a great many of the states in the union dont you think the populists lists have a better right to say ray that all good silver men including democrats should be populists lists because they all fought in 96 for the financial policy advocated by the populists lists in 92 does the utah democracy want to serve notice on the populist and silver republicans of the nation that bryan does doea not desire any of their aid in 1900 will this thi help shelp the silver cause over three millions of populists lists and silver republicans voted for bryan in their number will be greater in 1900 jones bryan and other democratic leaders realize that this is a national fight and in order to win it we must have a solid union void of friction in every state in anoker to our question as to whether lie he was working for senator cannons reelection election re mr rich said 1 I am working for a union of the silver forces let the legislature after it convenes consider the claims of all ail silver candidates if senator V cannon lannon should ba 0 one e of the candidates let him take his chances along with the rest but let this fight be one of loyalty loyally to the great cause of silver and not a selfish scramble for office |