| Show THE ACTUAL condilor CON Dinor utah lias a duty to perl orni iTi eais more than loyalty to parly it nilane the preservation atthe new elate and the inhabitants thereof the statehood question is settled now inet come the prosperity of the people can that be secured by vot ins fur alie democratic and republican parties hereafter let us see we haw hatched the republican party platforms in the east and none of the states eliat are expected to elect a republican president nex have adopted free coinage platform in tact all have secured success by straddling the question that simply means republican party next year will not put a free coinage plank in their national platform because they republican president illi out throwing to llie silver etalee it must not be forgotten that tho estera es teru combined have only about eiehl millions of people against sixty million east of the missouri river and the sixty million people look upon the email lotau in the affairs oi the nation the republicans have carried and leave possession of the election machinery of the following sixteen republican states electoral vote connecticut illinois 24 indiana 15 lona 13 maine 6 massachusetts 15 michigan U minnesota 9 new bampi hiru 4 new jersey 10 new york iw ohio 23 pennsylvania 32 rhode island vermont 4 wisconsin 12 total electoral votes majority of 10 from tle foregoing it will be seen that in spite of the south and the west combined the republican etalee in alie north and east of the Mier ouri river have majority of ten of the lenthal lent ial electors and it appears that the republican party in those etalee favor sound fonejr or anti irce by the united states alone therefore it would be for alie republican party east to put a silver plank in their platform and thus endanger a sure election for every one knows that the new england etalee iila new york included rould not vote for free co inae therefore if utah wanta free coinage flie nothing to liepe from the republican party how about the democratic parly it Is a well known fact that democrats in some of the southern 11 are favorable to silver but they are silver wen that can be converted by drover cleveland in one night as witness alie conversion of carlisle fioke ainey and ether even if the whole south were solid for silver what could it do the south is only minority within alie great democratic party of llie north ae will be seen from the fol lowins table the total number of presidential votes also regulates tho number of to alie democratic convention democratic etalee votes alabama arkansas 8 delaware 3 florida 4 georgia 13 kentucky 13 louiana 8 maryland 8 mississippi 9 17 korth carolina 0 south carolina tennessee o 0 12 texa 15 u virginia 12 wet virgilla lA e i he whole and every democratic blate were jor freo collaw they would only tt i r seat out of votes and thus practically represent only ot the whole democratic party it 19 safe to say that there are as many silver men in the republican party as anre in the democratic party while in fact there are a great deal more but the tromble in both parties is ahat the silver men arc in ft minority and hence are ruled by thu majority in the party policy therefore utah lias no hope tor silver from alie democratic party then v aliat liat ie to be done join the populist party no not at all while alie ulah lieta favor arfe coinage yet the populist party ie committed to flat money as well as other bad ideas which will swamp the country thai puts them in force the only to do ie to rally all the friends of silver under one banner and form an exclusive silver party the t ime the silver party of nevada and lelit it out on that line even it it tabea all summer if that were done it would at once form silver party that would sweep alie polls of the following thirteen states with sixty one presidential votes washington 4 oregon 4 california 9 nevada 3 3 montana sr 3 wyoming 3 colorado 4 utah 3 north dakota 3 south dakota 4 nebraska 8 kansas 10 total electoral votes 61 republican party should lose only one state with five votes neit lier party could elect a president as there would be no majority then a deal or bargain would be made with alie sil ver west for free coinage otherwise the election would be thrown in the bouse of representatives there the ailder artates of the west would have faill larger advantage because the law provides when an election ie thrown in the house ol 01 congress hat each bbate shall have but one vole and utah would be as bit s new york and the vote would stand silver states thirteen republican states sixteen and dt socratic mo cratic states sixteen it will be seen ahat the west would have almost a full third of the entire vote and that the south and west could alien elect a silver president without any trouble whatever to a roan who has studied the present condition of affairs the foregoing is th only possible way to accomplish the free coinage of silver during the next four years |
