Show UNDECIDED the silver fight baa been warmly waged dortho months in utah and is now holding the attention of the people of the entire country parties are being divided and reconstructed on issue individuals freeing are eing called upon to declare themselves and yet our neighbor the Salt lake tribune man to politically straddle the question up to within a month it has attempted to republicans by giving them liberal doses of tariff and to appease milvor men by potions of silver while aalthe time maintaining maintain ine a discreet silence to the policy to be pursued during tho campaign no one can tell from what has appeared in its columns whether it will remain will tho party whether it will support a free silver democrat if noal atod on a silver platform whether it will advocate the division of the silver forcee by encouraging two silver candidates whether it will be independent or remain out of tho fight altogether from what we can learn there is every to believe the tribune manager would hare had bis paper aport mckinley if any kind of deceptive financial plank bad been obtained oba ined at st louis prior to the convention the paper was VAcH lating in its position that the closest could not tell whether it recoe aued silver or tariff to be paramount today it has not the backbone to declare the democratic situation if its editor is the silver man ho claims to e he would consider himself bound by in the open and and candidly declare bis goei alon if be did this there be less reacon for suspicion that he ie an abject tool directed by his beguiling master fashions the policy of the paper in best calculated to brine revenue it Is a fact that the manager lias been coquetting with mckinley for some time and has tried to impress hanna with the service abl enesa of the tribune in the present ight of course it is now out of the location for directly sup port a gold man on but were told that the tribune will afe doing bianna a great kindness il it can promote any split in the silver forces and that the reward will be quite as manifest as though it gave direct support to the gold ticket doubts and uncertainties as to the course of the tribune are not confined to a single person nor to a fringle paper but the comments on its cowardly policy are heard on every hand the public would be pleased to have it come down from the fence and either beell its editorial page to the gold ring or stand for the rights of abo people by being governed by the dictates of conscience which alone can guarantee it a consistent line of action speak out tribune what are your politics |