Show POLITICAL VAGARIES The great Tribune deals ouly in vagaries these days simply because it has nothing in the shop save and except ex-cept that sort of thing It is true its readers may be a little tired of the pabulum but they must gulp it down Whether or no It seems that a fool named Stanley in Indiana heard Congressman Con-gressman Bynum declare that byvot ing the democratic ticket the farmers would receive 8125 for their whea in i I stead of 90 cents they were getting at the time and the 45 centstbey have been getting this year so far Now the Tribune doesnt just say explicitly that Stanley will be able to recover the difference if he sues Bynum but what it does say is tauntamount to thi Of course its object is to teach that the slump in wheat represented by the i then price and the present is due to the policy of the democratic national party The ignorant and the unthinking unthink-ing are caught by just such chaff and the Tribune would win votes by the dishonest method if it could Wheat has followed silver up and down with great regularity and entire certainty There is no need telling the Tribune I that neither Mr Eynum nor the democratic i demo-cratic national administration are responsible re-sponsible for the fell act of reducing silver from a money relationto a commodity com-modity relation to commerce It knows that well but amn its readers are those who will see in its statemant a solemn truth and predicate a vote upon it This is what the Tribune intended in-tended This is what we denominate dishonest methods It is true it is but a low order of intelligence which is controlled by this sort of argument however the uncomplimentary fact remains re-mains that there are American voters who are so controlled and it is to these tne Tribune is catering It is glad that the news is brought to Utah From its estimate of the intelligence intel-ligence of the people of Utah made years and years since it imagines that this sort of argument will win republican republi-can yotes among the farmers here These modes are unworthy any man yu tttmncntTmvairvr utieen cy of any kind The Tribune has exhausted ex-hausted argument and drops off easy into misrepresentation and ndicule No American political party has ever indulged in misrepresentation to the extent the republican party has Its whole existence is based upon pretense pre-tense It tells the negros that it made war upon the south simply to free them to bring to them the blessings of freedom and all others which come in the train of that when its real object was only to destroy the extraordinary prosperity of that section of which it Jhad become insanely jealous ana their freedom was only a mere incident to that object Its pretense that by destroying de-stroying one half of an already too mea re supply of money in its wicked demonetization of silver thus giving the poor a better chance of acquiiing it is scarcely less wicked and false than its raid upon the negro property of the south Its false claim that in the fabulous subsidies granted the Union Pacific railway system it was only serving the highest interests of the nation when really its leaders and pampered favorites were to be made Ecandalouslv rich by taxing the masses is only another baseless pretense We should say that a party with such a I record as this behind it would think twice ere it attempted to array the democratic speakers on the question of a venial pretense such as this of Bynums or the local democrats in Utah Neither Mr Stanley nor a simple farmer in Utah are any worse off with wheat to sell even at the lowest price than they would have been with no wheat at all to sell |