Show THE TRIBUNES WET BLANKET The Denver convention in its brief dishonest and unfrank silver plank has i thrown a wet blanket over that rotten old party in Utah Here the sharp leaders of that party among them Judge Goodwin had started out boldly challenging the democracy on the record of the two parties on this subject The Tribune one of the ablest free silver papers in the entire west began a course which if persisted in to the end must have proven dangerous dan-gerous to us But since the return of its venerable editor from Denyer it is as dumb on this question of silver as though it had lain in the pyramid of Cheops ever since the first of the Ptole mies was placed there The ardent prosilver republicans there are a few of them here are asking the troublesome questions What is the matter Why IS our champion suddenly grown dumb Have the eastern bosses spoken And is the east again to throttle us of the west as it did so shamefully at Minneapolis Minne-apolis Answered honestly and frankly the ruin of republicanism in Utah would be accomplished Even the gallant gal-lant old champion of silver feels the clutch of the gold bugs of the east upon his throat He quails before the power of New Yorks stolen gold and after battling like a hero for many years for free silver ha is now compelled as the slave is to silence the silver notes which like those of the bugle in war were wont to call the dauntless to action ac-tion and he now sits with his silvered honored head bowed in sorrow and shame that the party to which he has given the best years of his enthusiastic manhood is found to be false unworthy and unfaithful Up to this moment his battle cry was victory Now it Is a desparing prayer for strength to BUS tarn in patience another crushing defeat de-feat The Tribune does not relish the position posi-tion of defense into which it is forced by this revealment of the party policj at Denver It was wont in the old days to call the faithful under the banner of Bayard where the battle TVllIb ntb J > r4 e r fl less haft1 oU blow at its old time enemy or the raith i of its boyhood as of its hardhitting manhood The glory of the champion has departedand it was the hand of its own party which has struck the blow The Tribune is manly and therefore sensitive It will never again cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war It will follow tamely and submissively the policy marked out for it by the bosses in the east even though it knows that fair young Utah pines for the silver which is to quicken her march to pros peritv and to her proper place at the head of the column of prosperous western states Indeed is this particular partic-ular wet blanket an uncomfortable garment just now for the Tribune Under its free coinage leadership heretofore here-tofore it has taught the republicans the value to them of this same great doctrine doc-trine the doctrine of democracy These men now value the prosperity which free silver will bring to them infinitely more than they will or do yalue the triumph of every other tenet of republican repub-lican faith Poor old Trib poor dear old Goodwin now that the evil days of shame haye come to ye both we Borrow without hope for you unless indeed ye both take shelters with the democracy the onlv free coinage influence in-fluence at least in Utah |