The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-08-23

river on horse back and delivered to
the stage on the Oregon side.
An immense waterspout burst
about mile below Mineral and did
considerable damage to the road down
the canyon.
Messrs. Hill and Vaught take their
departure this week for a protracted
hunt in the vicinity of Payette Lakes.
Mr. VIM. Gilbert was elected reg
isterer on the 18th inst. vice LOOMS
Neer, resigned. The gentleman goes
to Weiser today to be qualified ac-
cording to law
viii the SIGNAL quote the price of
silver, copper, lead, etc?
The webfoot president called a
meeting of the contrary club and
made his maiden speech, stating
'this shall be the last meeting of the
contrary club until the elections and
and dog days are all over, and fur
ther, have learned that member
Of this club aspires to one of the high
offices of this county, and the ques-
ton to be settled is this Is this club
going to allow itself or its members
to get mixed up in politics? From
my first connection with the club
always understood that we were to
keep out of politics and be free to
vote just rs we pleased When the
president sat down about half dozen
wanted to speak at once. A silver
lite in stentorian voice said, 81 will
fight for the floor
The president: 'Well, take the
floor and pack it off with you if you
want to, we prefer to talk this sub
ject from the ground up anyway"
This wrangle gave the sllverte the
floor, and he went on to state, "Mr.
President | do not like the idea of
mixing up in politics, and would say
no to our member going before the
convention were it not that he is n
populst out and out, and when we
consider that there is no less than
eighteen candidates seeking the nom
nation on the populist ticket for the
office of sheriff and that the popuists
are the only party that declare out
and out for the free coinage of silver
we ought, in justice to ourselves, to
help the populists in so far as putting
up representative man. OF the
asplrants that has been named over.
some are too old, some are too young
some do not know enough, some are
popuists only to get Office ana others
would not know what to do with the
ONCE II they got It, Now as far as
| and this club are concerned we
want this fight for nominations to
center down between competent rep
resentative men, then | would say,
let our member 90 into the fight and
fight for all he is worth, consider no
persons claims for any office that was
Il democrat or republican last year
and only turns populist to get office
and one other thing, | do not want to
see our populist candidates going
around setting up whisky and cigars
with the hope of catching votes.
The democrats always did that and
the republicans, not to be bested, did
it too.
We are reformers and we want re-
form all around.
Any populist candidate that asks
me to drink with him will loose my
vote right there, but | will drink with
the republicans and democrats just to
be sociable.
a puke claims the floor. The
president; "Has the gentleman a
lien on this floor.
The puke: No, but wish to claim
the attention of this house or club
1t seems to me that we are getting
into politics up to our eyes. Why,
sir, it seems like every one wants Of.
flee from the populists. Only the
other day | heard that our Mineral
correspondent wanted nomination
for some office, but my advice to the
party is take no newspaper cores
pondents, railroad men or deputy
marshals for office. would prefer
That Mineral put up no candidate
AT last election we were nearly solid
populist, and will be so this time.
. | would prefer we ask nothing.
Leave II to the generosity of the out
siders, and if we do not like what
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