Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-09-08

"''Vss "VIC"Su's IduulV1 III AN"u's
he would no, vote ,h- Democratic
ticket.
Lyuleten Pric~
was the next speaker introduced. H.
said he did "t propose to make a
speech At all ut PRESENT. But t'~re
were some things which h- wished
10 saw as one citizen to another. DO
vnu know, he said. that there are
counties IL this State where there is
no church, no srhoolhouse that will
h"lt more chan 40 pupils, where the
>hriIl whistle. of the locomotive has
never been heard? DO y ou know WIN?
There is q r-ason for this. Why
Territory so won'ie,f,l in resources
has been retarded heyond anv other;
Why the tide of immigration which
has filled aud pr"sper+d the Psci6"
States his passed US by? It is because
it has been the p hey Of tn" Demo
cratic party to prevent the admission
OF any of the Territories as >t.trs.
The speaker was sorry I" say it. hui
il is true that there have also h"n
many Republicans who have been
afraid OF the West. But during the
past twelve wears a Western Repuh-
Iican party has grown up aud com.
pclied the Republican party Of the
nation to grant its demands. This
We.t~rn Republican party has con,
tended, and successfully, u OIL,
with the Dem. rrat'c party, but with
some of tie Republicans Of the East
We of the West know that unless ".
uphold lead the politicians OF the East
will remove the tariff tr' m it and thus
depreciate it. But, Thank God! the
men Of the East will n.ver have a
chance to repeal the law admitting
the State If .unn" They may have
II chance t" repeal tn. Silver bill aud
thu tariff on lead. But W. are State.
now, and We viii. elect men who will
uphold silver, thus increasing it's value,
and protect lead. Under the Repub,
Iican silver bill and the Republican
protective tariff the price Of all our
farm AID other products are advancing
hand in hand with silver. Since tn,
passage Of the silv,r bill the price of
what h..ur has advan ed four sh,lIinss
and six p,nce sack in Leeds, the
milling center .. England.
The Democratic party cannot be
expected to upheld SILVER or lead.
When su h IN as Geo'ge Hearst,
who was poor with h M ers. ate
with the miners, slept with the min
ers, and got rich with the miners,
pairs IF with n lepuhlican when Il
vote is to he taken to protect lead
what can he expe. ted Of his brother
Democrat>2 Can any Idaho Demo
crat do better with us, with lead, than
Mr.. Hearst did? His position is pre-
cisely ours. 1t is that of our homr
merchants, miners, teamsters. We
are all equally interested in this pr"p.
osltion. # The i|rmocratlc party I'll
the nation WAS in touch with the Lila
no Democrats on this question, il
would be we'll enough for Idaho d. IN
ocrat, to stand with them Bu as it
is not, why should there be single
Democrat in Idaho? Is there any
reason why We should cast our 10,
with men who are opposed to us OF
the lead question? If you speak To Il
democrat on this question he will re
tor, by asking you who demon-,'zeo
silver? But you cou d reply. # yot
wished to, who RE ,nonetiz,d silver?
Any Democrat in Idaho who say
that he stands by the National D. mo
cratic patty, .is,'".t. | di>t'u>
him because do not think he is hon
1 est. II lnt.iests are identical will
4 ours.
3 Do you believe that Mr.. Mayhev
/ aud two Democratic Senators will, i
! elected. stand by us on the !. ad qu-s
u ton? They cannot, will not. Tn
party lash is too srong. If G'"rR
h.. ars,, who is 30 heavily interested
i, il mines, cannot do it, others cann'
4 Friends and fellow citizens, "
f stand together upon every interes
n and every proposition. 30, let u
>, stand by men who will stand by ou
mt rests. Let US MT stand as Re