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Show THE HOPEFUL DEMOCRACY. .. JThe Utah Democracy, despite the apparently irreconcilable differences which are distracting their party in the Eastern States, are most hopeful hope-ful of success; national success, in November. To show how chaotic their Ideas are, they are preparing to support with the utmost zeal whatever what-ever candidate happens to be nominated and whatever platform may be adopted. With them success is what is wanted and whether tho trust magnates nominate Mr Cleveland or the wild and wooly contingent stampedes the convention and nominates Mr. Hearst, they will be prepared with the same irrepressible enthusiasm to toss up their hats and to execute the old Tuscarora war-dance. They cannot be so very much blamed. For sixty years their party had an almost unbroken un-broken reign, but during the four and forty years since the country has trusted them but twice, and on both occasions they made a mess of it. No wonder they want another chance. It is true they have not much to offer as a letter of recommendation or a certificate of character. Their promise to revise the tariff ought of itself to defeat them after the experience of the Wilson Wil-son bill. Their promise to smash the trusts ought to make thinking men laugh after the promises of their 1892 platform and the way they were kept is considered. . Their quadrennial expressions of love and sympathy for the poor working men ought to bring to the memories of the working men the sinister rattle of their empty dinner buckets in those four fateful years after 1892. But no matter. They in Utah are most confident con-fident of success this year. They know that the leading financiers in the great money centers, years ago, made a covenant to eschew party politics pol-itics and to support such candidates as promised best for themselves, no matter on what ticket they were nominated. They know that behind these is an immeasurably strong press. They know, too, that all that class hate President Roosevelt and will pour out money like water to defeat him in case one of their kind, like Mr. Cleveland jftdge Parker is nominated. Again, flH should Mr. Hearst be nominated he will spout flH his millions into the campaign even as a Yellow- flH stone geyser works its alternating engine. A IHI campaign with no end of money and with the H prospect of buying enough of the horde which H makes its ballots a matter of merchandise, to iH win the election, why should not such a cam- 9H palgn awaken unextinguished enthusiasm? IBM But seriously speaking, the different aggrega- HI tions of combined capital In the Atlantic coast H cities are a most torrible menace to free insti- H tutions. Not because of their financial schemes HH to do up the people. That is material merely and H there are ways to avoid the meshes they set. But llfli when they subordinate free institutions to their 1 bidding and are backed by the most influential H newspapers in the country, then they are a men- 'H ace indeed, and the best hope of the country is fl in the growing West that, by and by, will take !H charge of things. It was that power that smashed silver; the same power brought on the il awful panic of 1893; Secretary Gage was working iH for the same power when, as the silver commis- M sion was about to agree with France, Great Brit- M ain and Germany on an international ratio be- tween the metals, he (Gage) Issued that paper H which said in effect that the United States H wanted no such an agreement. It was the same jH power that crowded greenbacks upon the treas- H ury demanding their redemption in gold (knowing H that Mr. Cleveland would not permit their pay- HI ment in silver) until the treasury was drained H and the bonds had to be issued and sold, and ! H sold, too, to the very conspirators that had first jH brought on the panic and later had drained the flH treasury of gold, that they might receive for re- H turning it $250,000,000 of interest-bearing bonds. 'H They bought them, too, at 92 cents, when, had H they been printed in convenient denominations H tho people would have been glad to pay a H premium for them. Less than five hundred of H them for the past twenty years have, whenever jH they have felt like It, have made the 90,000,000 of H men and women in this country hold up their H hands. And a great, all-powerful press has ap- k plauded their every steal. H When a lone highwayman takes his life in his H hands and holds up a stage or a railroad train, H the sentiment of the people is that killing is too H good for one so depraved. H When those Interest-gatherers by purchase H compass an election, the giddy people say they H are giants; when they compass a direct, mighty M steal from the people through the people's agents fl in Washington then the press of the big cities M laud them to the skies for coming to the rescue B of the Government when its need was sore H |