The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-07-05
THE WEISER SIGNAL.
THURSDAY. JULY 5, 1894
THE DOLLAR AT DENVER.

THE DOLLAR AT DENVER.
The national republican convention
of league clubs recently met in Den
yer. We recognize that the silver
question is not governed by party
lines but has its earnest advocates
and bitter opponents everywhere out
side of politics; and sentiment and
reason, not parties, must eventually
solve the problem, and from the
number of silver republicans who
went as delegates with the asserted
determination to battle for n declara-
ton of silver at Is to l, we were
looking eagerly forward to the out
come of the Denver convention But
when we saw in the first dispatch
that silver resolution had been
adopted that was tantamount" to Il
declaration for free silver, our hopes
at once went down with a punk, as
we knew the same old oily makeshft
was coming. The next day the reso-
luton appeared. Here it is:
We believe in the use Of gold and silver
as money metals, maintained on a perfect
parity aud inlerconverliblity. We do
not believe that there will be perma-
nent return of prosperity to our country
until the full use aud highest position OF
silver shall be restored, and WE lavor such
legislation as will bring about this result.
The republican papers are rejoicing
over the resolution and declaring it to
be the essence of wisdom and is bold
er and better than any silver declara.
ton ever promulgated, only tie
'cabalistic' words l6 to have been
left out because they were y worn
ont hooaoo. We supposed they
wanted the people to know how they
stood and would have adopted some
thing the. people could understand.
The people cannot understand that
resolution and their votes are not to
be got any longer by something they
can not understand. The people can
understand that simple sentence "free
coinage at l6 to |, and we would
think the convention would have
adopted it whether it was "cabdllstlc'
or not. The fact is, the silver advo-
Gates of the western wing of the re-
publican party were completely
crushed by the swarm of eastern gold
bugs that were there. 1t is said that
the Colorado delegation was actually
roundly Kissed by the convection, and
from that on the silver delegates, even
to the great Judge Goodwin, were 50
scared out Of their boots that they
were afraid to open their mouths.
ave believe in the use Of gold and
silver as money metals maintained ON
perfect parity and interconverliuility
Cleveland, Harrison, John Sherman
and every Wall street money shark
believes in that The people Out
west don't. They believe in the
'scabalistic words" of "free aud un.
limited coinage of both gold ano
silver at a ratio of l6 to |. lii,
Boise Statesman says that the Denver
resolution is only another way o.
saying the same thing. But if til,
people understand one way of saying
it and don't understand the othel
way, why don't the league of clubs
talk so they can be understood
Sweet says, ''The fight for bimelal
lism is won (meaniug that his part,
has bound ITSELF, and we can taxi
care of the ratio later" For Go,
sake, il the silver men OF his part,
were not able to take care of tn,
ratio at Denver, how will they b,
able to take care of it in Washington
The bravest bimetallist shown up b.
the convention was a man of the east
who lives surrounded by swarm 0
gold bugs-Senator Cameron, o
Pennsylvania who wrote a letter t.
the convention and urged that a plat
form of two words, Gree Silver" b
adopted This is only dampene
for the moment, however, as tn
silver sentiment is widely spreading
and former gold bug papers in Gin
cinnati, New York, Washington an,
all over the east, are now open advO
ca ties of bimetallism.
When you talk about Office huntin,
the man, all we have to say is tina
when Frank Smith went into tn
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