Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-09-13
CLAGETq ANO O'ROURKE.
SYNOPSIS OF THEIR SPEECHES At
LAST NIGHTS RALLY,
the Democratic Pariy-lt Is Only A
Brake Upon the Republican Band
Wag"n-Why the Democrats Voted
Tor Free Coinage OF Silypr-A Few
Words to kickrrS. If ANY There H..

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last evening. ON the occasion of the
rally to hear Pnilip O'Rourke and
Hon. WIN. H Clage,t, of >hoshone
county, speak on the political issues
OF the day. Judge Lemmon, Chair
ma" of the Republican County Cen.
trail Committee, presided, and |. N.
Sullivan, candidate for Justice of the
Supreme Court; Lyt,I~,on Price,
candidate for the Legislature; W. :.
Mack, member of the State Central
Committee for Alturas; and other
prominent citizens occupied the plat
form.
PHILIP o'RoURKE
was the first speaker. He said that,
in the first place, he was incapable of
making speech and would not at
tempt it; and that, in the second
place, he only needed a few minutes
to define his position as miner and
to say what position, in his opinion,
his fellow miners and the people i'm
general should occupy in the cam
paign.
After many years of waiting W.
have finally been give. the boon of
Statehood, and are still novces to the
dignities and responsibilities co',se>
qu-nt thereupon. 1t was therefore
necessary that we should think ser,
ously and carefully as to our politics,
what party we should indorse.
The Republican party stood for
prot elton to home industry. That
was sufficient reason why the work
ingmen aud the people in general
should uphold it Two years ago the
Democratic party, by its authorized
declarations, as ascrrtained by It's
platform, stood for Free Trade. What
it stands for now the speaker did not
know. Perhaps his Democratic friends
did. Laughter. fie had not heard
their representatives on the stump this
campaign, and could not, therefore,
tell. Renewed laughter and APP
plause. He wished to stat-, right
here, that his remarks did not apply
to the Democratic party of Idaho, but
to the National Democratic party.
He knew a great many Idaho Demo
Gratis. Their intesests were identical
with ours. They ned protection for
lead, and the RECOMMENDATION of silver.
All the Idaho Democrats whom he
knew were gentlemen. Laughter
And all he had against them was that
they did not belong to better party.
[Applause.
He desire to warn the peop'e OF
the fact that the National Den. ocratic
party, after opposing our admission,
fg hing the tariff on lead, and fooling
with the silver question, was secretly
and corrupty trying to steal the State.
There are thee representatives Of the
National Democratic party in Idaho
to day, scattering money collected in
the East for the purpose of carry ing
the State against the best interests OF
its people.
Reverting to the State Democracy,
he said that they were doubtless SIM
oere, yet their platform, adopted at
Boise, was positively contradictory.
The first plank Endorsed the Mills
Free Trade bill, and another plank
declared for protection! Now this
could not be carried out. A party
cannot be tor and against any propo-
sition. 1t is impossible. lie was
tn. refore compelled to believe and
saw tina, the aforesaid platform was
only a device of the enemy to gull
people. And he thought he could
show that it looked as if it was the
intention. Only three or four days
after the Idaho Democracy adopted
that platform an identical one vas
adopted by the Indiana Democracy
1t looks as if they had factory at
HEADQUARTERS 10 manufacture Demo-