Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-09-23
Jaagc Willis Bweet aad PhiIlip
OsRourke


last Saturday evening, and 70 say that
they captured the large audience
would be but ! statement Of facts.
We know there are many Dsmocrats1
who prefer the election Of Willis
Sweet 10 that Of their own candidate,
and At ths same time they would
like TO vote their ticket, this being /
the FIRST State election. They know
that Sweet IS just the right man, and
the principles he advocates are best
for Idaho. Mr.. Kingsley first intro
duced Phillip O'Rourke, ! galena
miner Of Shoshone county. Hell
stated that his county produces more
lead than all other sections of Idaho
combined, that the lodges are very |
large, but the ore low grade Many
Of the mines produce 200 tons Of ore
each per day, and that with the Re-
publican tariff on lead the mines are
worked At . profit, but with lead adj
mitted free Of duty, or with the Dem
ocratic tariff, the mines cannot he
made TO pay. This question is one
that affects The mine owner. the day
laborer in the mines, and, in fact, all
Idaho, as o.her. industries are sus-a
tanned 10 great extent by the mines.
He stated that the tariff on lead
makes $500 per day difference in the
value Of the daily production Of each
of number of mines in Shoshons
county. He touched upon the tariff,
taking broad view, and going bur
little into detail. He cited the fact
that lumber from British Columbia,
coming in colnpstition with the lum-
Der of the State of Washington, Was
not raw material, on which Demo-
Gratis have SO much to say, but was
| the product of labor of ten different
kinds, and then he defined raw ma
terial as 9 the bone aud sinew of la
bor." He said that America need
not be dependent on any other coun-
| try for what Democrats term raw ma
teriaI nor for manufactured articles;
that if 1t was possible to take lever
and turn every country across the
ocean upside down aud destroy all
their inhabitants, America would go
ahead and prosper just as she has
| done; She can live within herself.
Under a Democratic tariff, he said,
| the goods in American stores of al
most every description had on them
a foreign stamp but now we find the
| American brand. Mr.. O'Rourke is
for the interests of Idaho, and for
| america, 4 and in his every sentiment
is thorough American. He may
have been horn in foreign land
! but his sentiments are all American
Il Judge Sweet was next introduced
and the audience soon realized tina
he is well named the ssllyer-tonguee
orator" He did not dig up the past
except in cases where the past actio'
of parties on living issues were re
ferred to. The actions of Congress
on silver bills, the lead tariff, gener
al tariff bills, ON Statehood, etc
were elaborately shown, as well a
the attitude of Cleveland's admins
tration. He showed that the attitud
of the Democrats IN the last Congress
on the free coinage silver bill wa
only for effect, they knowing tha
the bill could rot become law, an
that under Cleveland's administratio
they did not come out on this ques
ton. He referred to the empty plan
in the Democratic State platform IL
a protective tariff on lead, and ths
on the day that this plank was put
their platform, the Democrats
Congress were voting the other wa
unanimously. He showed their il
consistency in favoring protsetiv
tariff for what ldahe produces, and
IS low tariff Tor the productions of otht
t. States. In Congress they would g
e with their party, no matter what the
v private views might be They ha'
$. done it in the past. The Republics
l. party can be trusted to keep up Il
n tariff ON lead. Protection is pril
rs ciple of the Republican party, al
that party has kept its pledges al
n can be trusted. To the Republic;
of party solely are the miners of Idal
r. indebted for the present. high pri
IL of silver. The speaker believed tn
under our present law, passed
Republicans and opposed by Dem
Gratis, silver would reach, or We
| nearly reach, its coin value, 81;
n and 29-10o, and the law would tn
in be equivalent to free coinage la