The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-08-12
The Country Press.

Congressman Lafe Pense, of Colorado,
while at the Chicago Bime:allic Con-
vention, in an interview published in
Coin, paid the following tribute to the
country press:
''The metropolitan daily press has
generally been against US, but the coun-
try press, that power which, being close
to the people, speaks for the people and
to the people who make Congressman,
Senators and Presidents, is almost unan-
nous for the free coinage OF silver as
we'll as gold. The country editor is con-
troled by no banks or bankers, no board
of directors whose members own their
newspaper stock in order to build up
their other interests. He bas to do
with the toilers of the shops and fields,
whose lsbors make the wealth of the
land and whose votes must be had by
the man or the party who wants to win.
One year ago-yes six months ago
the big daily papers had the discussion
of this question all to themselves and
they were generally gold standard or
gans belonging to heavy 6nanciers. Not
so now. Look over your country ex-
changes. That is what the Congress-
men and Senators from the wheat, corn
and cotton sections are doing, and they
find that the country editor is as we'll
informed as the city editor upon this
question, and in his columns is discuss
ing it more boldly and more honestly /;
and from all this he reaches some con-
clusions and amongst them are these /:
That the folks at home would rather
that ne would be right on this import
ant question and do justice to the masses
by standing up like man as thsir rep
resentative in Congress than to secure a
few petty offices for some of their num-
Der by crawling on his belly before the
Temporary rulers at Washington.
That the folks at home are informed,
are reading and discussing as they have
not done before in years.
That they know the difference be-
tween a buy-metallist and bimetallist
and will stand no foolishness. That a
Member can't vote for the gold standard
and come home next year and expect
to deceive the people as to the meaning
of that vote. That great campaign of
education is going on amongst the
masses who have toiled long and in
vain.
That the member of the Fifty-third
Congress from wheat, cotton or corn
state who votes for the gold standard
will not warm a seat in the Fifty-fourth
Congress-
That the folks know that all partiesin
all campaigns have declared in favor Of
the double standard. That no party has
ever declared in favor of the single gold
standard, and that these same folks are
in earnest in the resolve that this ques-
tion shall be settled, and settled right,
before the discussion is closed. The
country editors and those whom Mr..
George Wilson, OF Missouri, designates
AS the fellows no follow mule through
the corn rows in the hot August sun,'
are watching the votes aud acts of the
Members al Washington. The Members
k now it, and therefore | answer again;
no sir, do not think that the Sherman
law will be unconditionally repealed.
On the contrary, delieve that now that
this is the burning question on whose
correct answer depends the prosperity
and peace, the happiness and homes OF
the wealth producers of this splendid
country. 1t win not be permitted to
rest until that solution which every hon.
est man in time must approve, has been
secured, and the mints of the country
again open to silver as well as gold"