The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-10-13
POPULlST MEETING.
Crowded House and an Excellent Entertain.
mont Eioquencs Unparalleled.

A Crowded House and an Excellent Entertain
mont Eioquencs Unparalleled.
The Populist meeting Wednesday
night was a great success. A large
number of Lower Boise people hap
pened to be in town negotiating fail
deal with grasping corporation, and
! good turnout from the city made one
| Of the largest audiences yet seen at a
political meeting in Cald wellHMr. Will
liam Dorman-a local light-was the
irst speaker, who was called upon to
ill in while the real orators took nour-
shment after hard ride from Silver
City. Mr.. Dorman told about the great
TALL in prices since the sixties and how
Dan Campbell was good enough to pay
ST ton for nay when nobody else
would do half as well, but how 20 years
ago the same hay would fetch $40. He
said that farmers were getting tired of
sucking the hind teat and were about
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Mr.. Ballantine, nominee for governor,
followed. He is sturdy farmer, on
the good, old English plan, with NUT
ton chop whiskers and comfortable
commissary. MIR. Ballantine is not up
in national politics and unaccustomed
to oratorical display. He appears to be
real nice, old gentleman, but off his
beat. He doesn't know much about
state matters either. y He undertook to
tell the people that the state boiler in
spector was burden on the taxpayers.
Being legislator himself, he ought
not to make a crack like that. The
state boiler inspectors office was cre-
ated at the urgent solicitation of men
who have to work around steam en-
gines. 1t is his business to see that no
boiler is used which is unsafe and dan
gerous to the life and limbs of those
who work around steam power plants
or locomotives. The owners of steam
boilers have to pay the inspector all he
gets out of the office. 1t doesn't cost
the taxpayers anything, and is pro-
lection to workmen which they are en-
titled to.
Mr.. Ballantine's explanation of the
action of POpulist legislators on the
bill to reduce the state tax levy was
very poor. He got tangled up and failed
to make any connection between the
bill to reduce taxes and the bill to bond
the state. His figures showing how
much had been saved by killing the
bonding bill were no good, because he
based them on the idea that the $780,
600 was to lie dead in the state treas
ury, when, as matter of fact,
the proposed law to bond at per
cent. was for the purpose of taking
up 10 per cent. outstanding warrants
and making public improvements,
which another law provided to be made.
MIR. Ballantine has got his facts all
mixed up. He ought to get untangled.
J. Ed. Smith followed and spoke in a
humorous style for an hour or more.
Smith is an entertaining talker, but
the most reckless manipulation of words
you ever listened to. He devoted him.
self almost entirely to making fun for
the boys, and they enjoyed it frstrate.
Mr.. Smith is quite as successful as
Populist as he was two years ago as a
Prohibitionist or four years ago as a
Democrat. He is just lawyer enough
to take three sided case and do each
equal justice. From Populist stand-
point the meeting was all that could be
desired. The audience was large; the
speakers were ample and onto their job.
The Republicans were skinned pretty
effectively, the Jews got it in the neck
and the National banks were hammered
1t was good meeting.