The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-07
CHAOTIC ELEMENTS.

bulent state, which seems most certain
to result in a speedy upheaval of po-
litical elements, out of which will
grow result which is yet but mat
ter of conjecture. Men are blindly
cropping about without party. They
have given up hope of the party, to
which they have adhered, acting ia
vorably on the one great question
which at last they realize is so vital
that it must be held higher than the
political loves which have warmed
their breasts for several decades. If
either of the two sturdy old factions
were to perform phenomenon within
the next few days or weeks and sud-
denly step out and reverse all their
policies so as to meet the ideas of the
advocates of broad finance, that party
would at once bring back to its heav-
ing bosom the whole wavering western
wing, with vast host from the OPP
posite side; but such an event has
been demonstrated to be beyond the
lines of possibility, and men are like
a weaving child; while they tearfully
fret with desire TO be nurtured by
their mother party as they have been
accustomed, yet they angrily spit out
the salt, pepper and soot-smeared
breast and refuse to apply their lips
to draw such i'll favored milk. Each
look at the heretofore fondled fount
at which they have nursed fills them
with repugnance, and though for a
time they will be peevish at the loss
of their habitual fare, they will soon
grow out of it. At the state silver
convention at Ketchum, one of the
most prominent politicians of the
state got right up in meeting and de-
clared that if his republican mother
put such another dose on her dugs
he would quit sucking. Others as
prominent, from both parties, did
likewise. AS these men without
party roam in the waste outside the
political pasture, the populists are
inclined to lay back exultingly and
take it for granted that this is an un-
conditional capitulation in their favor.
They seem to want to faunt the red
rag in the faces of these forlorn men
and at once expect them to come
rushing into our open arms, your
blooming renegades; did we not tell
you SOP what do you think of lis
now? had to acknowledge we were
right, didn't YEP 1t may be very
gratifying to the third party men to
see western democrats and republ
cans Inundated, and the inclination
to taunt them with their plumbers be
very strong; but politically it is not
wisdom. The populists claim that as
they are the true silver party, the ex-
odus of the old following means
swelling of their ranks. They do not
look upon the possibility of an adop-
ton of some of their principles with
out becoming allied with their organ
ization. They now have an opportu-
nifty to do a wise and great thing
that will prove that injustice has
been done their wisdom and intelli
gence as party in the obloquy that
has been heaped upon them from diff
ferent sources. They know, or ought
to know, that men like Gum, Badley,
Crook and Wright, joined because of
their open declaration in favor of sill
yer, and perhaps do not in their
hearts endorse all the planks of that
party. They know that the burden
some conditions which caused that
party to be born are the results of
and have grown out of the financial
legislation of the last twenty years
and that they are similar to the other
parties in this, that though all western
populists are solely silver men, the
more eastern wing of the party, with
Weaver and other leaders, are as
strongly a greenback party as eastern
democrats and republicans are gold |
parties; and that greenbackism is as
distasteful to silver democrats and
republicans rs a gold standard, and |
while they renounce the party of gold |
they cannot take up the party of |
greenbacks, Now could not the pop
ulists council together and say to
themselves that they must meet their
penitent opponents half way and give
up just as much, and say to them, you
have left your old parties and are
coming to us on this issue upon which
we are united in opinion but have