Show STAND BY TRIED FRIENDS an old axiom admonishes people not to cast aside old friends for new a reason for the advice being that th the former are tried and known while the latter remain to be tested and their quality in g therefore uncertain oo no mat ter how bow good they pr armise mise further the person who caste aside an old friend merely to give place to a newer fancy displays diB playa in himself a vacillation of character that be tokens ingratitude if indeed it la Is not skin akin to treachery since it 18 1 false to a friendship frienda bip of which abic it bas baa been the beneficiary it la Is a matter of common observance that thai in politics poll tica especially ingratitude ina la a prevailing Dg aim and it Is ia largely owing to this that vile n esa io ID politics let 10 so eo preva prevalent lout wince since the baseness of being ungrateful and untrue to sincere friendships invite sand comports comforts com ports with almost every other species of dishonorable action among amoona a people however who value honor bonor and esteem in politics on the plans plane of highest integrity to be a desirable de attainment 9 there shots CUD can bo be no DO inducement even in the sharpest abar peat drawing of party lines to desce descend ind to the ungrateful or to tn or spurn those who have bae dinvel their by gerac fidelity in ID the hour bour of doubt and trial in the political arena in utah there has baa been much of the deepest interest to in the post past sixty days daye and so absorbing has ban been the discussion discue aion of the foremost topic therein that to a marked extent political lines have been forgotten in the overwhelming turning surging of the people toward the con principle of the full coinage of both told gold and silver and the elimination of the single sold gold standard system in a sense outside of the intermountain i states elates this matter of coinage is in the paramount political issue but within those states it Is ie practically removed from that domain and becomes a quest question ibn of patriotic sup support tort to the national constitution among the great maea of voters in ahoise states there to Is no political line on the topic of free coinage inane oo and they repudiate any attempt to enforce the single gold standard as such an issue locally hence Jo locally daily expressions and eions of frien dahin in methods lu be half bait of silver do oot not take on the form of partisanship la 1 the period of sixty days referred to the free silver wave in this country has baa assumed remarkable proportions proportion and still is ia increasing in force and magnitude the recognition of that fact also albo calls callb prominently forward the further fact as to whence the great wave received the impetus which pent ent it forward with vastly accelerated speed there to la no getting away from the truth that this source of was in the brict of the silver moti men at the st qt lule loula republican coo con vent VelDt lon IOD it tuat that bolt had not dot been 1 41 kisac pisac mau the be situation would have been entirely different terent dif by their heroic action in the stand taken at st 81 coulp the three le leaden senators teller of colorado dubois of dabo and cannon ot of utah fully their launch friendship 41 for free coinage of silver their action did more to pave the way for future progress pro arees and for the unification of the sliver silver forces as they now stand than any other event that can bo pointed to in the politic political aV occurrences of the year their bolt bait irom from a great party convention under such circumstances as then men surrounded gave to the silver situation a favorable lavo rable aspect that it could not have obtained other wise a fact that should not loot be forgotten jn in time of future recognition the condition now la Is such that all friends of silver might follow profitably in the line indicated by ahto balters bol action as far as an it unites all upon the great object of the contest the gentlemen named darned with others cast aside all bonds and ties of party for that which they believed to be right and with undaunted courage struck in the cause of free coinage col nuge those who are our supporters porters 0 of that thai cause can no less now than thad rise to au an equall equal stan standard aard of pai patriotism riot ism the silver men in the luter intermountain mountain states cannot tie be expected to turn down trobe who proven their integrity in loading leading a forlorn hope which resulted in such gain to the cause dimmie of trio while metal the diwi ri fult that may be ij anticipate 1 i 1 I 1 ip that volera oi 01 all partig partis will liu jid a that bat be fore ore divided tham ladd sud work to shoulder dor with the old friends who have proved their heir fidelity to the last extremity tre mity A shifting of friend ships a suggestion of ingratitude a aidt of in the ranks or of tb the silver people is not dot to be looked for or irom from the true friends of the white metal |