, 1890-09-04
FIT WITH PAP PRICE.
Zeke Coonskin on the CAM
paign in Idaho.
FROM INSPIRATION TO DESPAIR
An Idaho Democrat Who Is Al
most as Candid an the Span
gle Editor.

%h''''i ishitots Ut tlo DuSb
week my sole hes be rung with con-
flictin' emoshuns. Sometimes
hev been on the mountain top OF
glory whair the sunbeems play and
the winds breathe fragrance, and
anon was plunged In the deep gloom
of n valley filed with darkness and
dissatisfactshun. Was THAR not an
old poet who thought he had been
in hell? Well, Ieke goes tho old
chap one better; at times he hez bin
THAR. lack words to unfold the
horrors of my sltuashun. or course
speke meteforickally and polite
kally.
he'd the plezure Of attondin' our
dimocratic county convenshun. BY
dint of q liberal use of stimulants we
managed to Great no small amount
OF enthusiasm. In gentle way We
famed the flame of discord between
the republican fackshunes In Boise.
We hope they will keep q grlppin'
of each other by the jugglar vein so
as we kin elect the legislative ticket.
Fur we are bound to stamp that
Dubois into nothingness. He It
wuz who cum up from the cowboys
camp and the cattel trail to turn
back the dimocratic and Mormon
hosts I'm their victorious march and
lead the republican horde to
triumph! We mir forced to admit
that he hez brains and knows how
to Use 'em, rs witness the overthrow
of Zion and the success of the repub-
lickan party In Idaho. But he hez
no munney! He is poor In purse!
Here we have him on tho hip.
When Zion from her politikal exile
dumps her bar'l INTO the arena, then
good-by Dubois! II munney and
lynn will beat him, then he will be
defeated. IL isgood to lie I'm q nobel
cause! wuz much lifted up by the
eloquent speech of George Ainslie,
Esquire, at the ovenin' meetin'.
George Is u aimin' at the United
States senate. He Is both brite and
cute. Zion will stand by George,
fur George hez stood by Zion, lol
these menny years. He hez bin
sheet anlxor to tho good ship when
the tempests ragged and he Is her
sheet ankor still! Fur, though, In
his speech, he must needs slap her
in the face u trifle, still he used all
gentleness, and winked at the boys
while he wuz slappin'. Zion
ketchcs on she will be true!
Wun thing / admire in George.
He hez deep hatred of all union
soljers, Linkum hirelings, and his
richus sole Is stirred to indignashun
ut the large sums of munncy Uncle
Sam dishes out to 'em and their
widders in the form of penshuns.
Old Zeke fit with Pap Price, and
THAR air lots of us about here who
corjally sympathetic with George
i'm his sentiment. Besides this he
hates all black republican news
paper men and misses no occashun
TO lift his voice of thunder in favor
of kickin 'em out of dimocratic con-
venshunes and sich like. George IL
u jewel and will adorn the senate
If he gifts thair
What l set out to say wuz that,
taken all in all, the outlook from
the rosy summit of the county con.
venshun seemed so fair, 80 promisin',
that | was filed with hope once
more fur the triumph of dimocracy.
| was reddy to enter the fite and
help shout the battel on!
But there cum a frost, nippin'
frost, in the shape of the republic
kan state convenshun, and all my
fond hopes seemed to shrink and
wither and shrivel up and die!
My, Mistur Editur, 1t beat all to sec
the uncshun and fire and single
mindedness with which they set
about it to do up dimoeracy. They
were united; they were prudent;
they were judishus, almost diaboli-
cally so, in THAR use of menes to
berry dimocracy more than forty
fathomes deep. Fur months we
had bin bizzy tryln to stir up flte
between North and South Idaho,
knowin' the old sore between the
two secshuns, but 10! and behold!
the delegates frum the North and
the South fell into wun another's
arms and swore eternal fealty,
| while they pledged united Idaho
against dimocracy and Zion in
inenny bumpers OF rosy wine! 1t
was awful discouragin'.
And then the ticket! Who kin
say ennything agin itp Old Ieke Is
most fertile In invenshun, but he
hez sot in vain to find anything
plausible to say agin Shoup. or
course, we kin lie like the mischief,
but the trouble is no wun will be-
lieve us. He sets SO high on the
pedestal of popular favor that the
shafts of calummy can't reech him.
He is so tite enrobed in an armor OF
integrity and honor that the arrows
of malice won't peerce through.
feer we must give up the fife SO fur
as Shoup is concerned. But as to
tothers, we mir now takin COUNSEL
about them. Sum of them at leest
air open TO attack. We will hatch
up sumthing or die tryin'. Still,
Mistur Editur, Zeke is dishartened.
The outlook is not mere so roseate as
it wuz. / am In Doubtin' Castle
with the doors shut tite. The sum
shine Is gone fur tho present frum
the path of yours fur dimocracy
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