| Show AN ABSURD proposition an assertion may and often does acquire quire some degree of credence from sheer repetition notwithstanding that upon its face it is an absurdity and cannot be supported by any sort of logic the politicians of one particular standard are trying to make the people believe that the nonpartisan non partisan movement is an assault on the interests of silver reiteration but not reason is the means they are adopting to convince the people that this ridiculous fallacy is really a truth the truth is the mckinley republican has just as good reason for asserting that non is antagonistic to the single gold standard as the bryan democrat has for saying that it is inimical to the cause of free silver neither would have any reason whatever for his assertion this state has shown that it is overwhelmingly in favor of free silver it is an issue upon which about eighty per cent of the voters of utah saw eye to eye last november now if chiq silver sentiment can be invoked in a political contest it is liable to carry the day hence the reason why the fallacy was coined if it can be made to appear that william mckinley is concealed in the timber of the non parti san ticket it is hoped by the politicians of a certain stripe that many voters will flee from it but the subterfuge is too strained it wont work As well try to make the people believe that the ghost of jefferson davis or the cause of slavery has something to do with the nonpartisan ticket as that major mckinley t or any other anti silver champion or influence has what could john dark clark as mayor of salt lake city do for or against the cause of free silver were his inclination either way ever so pronounced nothing at all and mr dale whom the democrats have nominated as well as any candidate whom the republicans may name will be equally powerless last year the re publicans public ans of this city split asunder and the biggest half of them voted for bryan then the silver issue divided them in the municipal campaign this thia year however all the republicans of this city who do not support the nonpartisan me movement are united solidly because there is no silver issue to divide them this is their own admission and it supports entirely the news contention that the silver question is not never was and cannot be made a dividing issue in any election that looks only to the improvement of governmental methods in cities this thia attempt to inject into the control of this city a question that by no possibility can have anything to do with it or affect or be affected by it is a ruse of your lightweight light weight politician and is unworthy of serious or extended discussion |
