Idaho semi-weekly world., 1892-08-19
OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN.


counter between adherents of the
three national parties. 1t was COM
bat in which argumentlve weapons
were used, highly embellished with
glittering generalihes and linguistic
infections made forcible with depth
of feeling and earnestness in which
the well-rounded sentences of each
had been thoroughly soaked before
being hurled into the teeth of the op-
position. The Peoples Party man
made the onslaught with an emphasis
of language and firmness of position
born of positlveness in the rightfuI-
ness of the issues advocated by the
Peoples Party, and of the ruinous
policies put forth by the other two.
With reckless gesticulation executed
at arms length he thus proclaimed:
'If Weaver is defeated, the coun-
try, sirs, will go straight to hell on
the keen jump, and down hill with
out brakes. That's as sure as God
made little apples and that Adam
and Eve ate 'em. tell you she is
going now, and any one who can't
see it is as blind as bat in both
eyes and deaf to the appeals of down
trodden humanity, crushed beneath
the iron heel of oppression and a fast
approaching monarchy. Do you hear
me, gentlemen? l repeat"-said he,
and he repeated, with more emphasis
than before The other two were
then getting pretty we'll warmed and
trying hard to wedge in word at
the punctuation points. When the
Peoples Party man had finished his
speech the Democrat arose on his
dignity and fred off his political con-
victions as if shot out from tongue
Of fire. He said, in a loud tone of
voice that was sufficient itself to car
ry conviction and turn the other two
for Cleveland and reform: 81 tell
you you're away off to a dead moral
certainty. You talk, but you know
not whereof you speak. Your party
is conglomeration of mistaken ideas
and wild and woolly hallucinations,
and theories impracticable in their
operations and laden with miasma of
the stagnant swamps, frog ponds and
miry quagmires of political delusions,
microbes of misery and paralysis of
the hind legs of the progress of on
wardly progressing progresslvness
in general and tariff reform in partic-
ular. Let me tell you that only one
worse calamity than the election of
Weaver could be possible-that is
the success of Harrisonism and Nc
Kinleyism, meaning the force bill
and the nigger vote counted, and the
American manufacture of tin plate
and the establishment of other crush
ing enterprises, shod with the iron
heel of oppression. I'm talking facts
| tell you if Cleveland is beaten re-
form will be cold, cold, stiff corpse
and the country will go to hell a
whoopin'." The Republican arose
and in an eloquent voice filled with q
conviction of vindication of the
right, said: "You're both side
tracked. Republlcanism follows the
main line of craftsmanship, goes
straight ahead and is never ditched
Get aboard and take the right course
The Democrat before me is right al
to Peoples Partyism, the Peoples
Party man is right as to Democracy
both only half right. l tell you
gentlemen, candidly, and for a fact
as sure as the sun rises and sets, i
either Weaver or Cleveland are elect
ed we'll have calamatous crumblins
of free institutions, and in their steat
will arise free trade and pauper labor
5 States rights, (Which means secession
disuson and the re-estab ablishment o
} slavery. Anarchy will stalk abroad
industrial enterprises will stop short
3 never to go again, and labor will fal
= fiat on its back and howl for grut
: Look at the picture and see what W
7 will come to. Reform, l implore yor
< before it's too alfred late!" Ali the
e began talking at once in an excite
e tone of voice and the eloquent sen
tences of each, laden with logic an
the essence of craftsmanship, fire
n simultaneously and all in heap, be
: came so mixed up in one commo
: mass as to be indistinguishable. Thi
J. was kept up until the combatants be
g came exhausted as a result of gres
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