The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1895-01-26
WAITE AT HOME


M. I.~etnr. rcur Abandoned for Lack
o. aasseaees .ns roui Weather
I Fr.aa tie Rocky Noua.sIa News
Ex-Governor Davis III. Waite IS
again In Denver His lecture tour.
which was orinsfrfaIIy intended 10 take
In the states and British possessions IN
North America, with possibly jump
over 10 Europe and a triumphal tour
around the world has been wholly and
heFelessIy abandoned II lasted Just
three. fare.faI nights. January II he
spoke 70 q scattering few IN chicago,
January Is, at Racine. still fewer ana
more scattering was the crowd Enlch
turned cat TO hear him. January ID,
at Joliet III. the audience was 50 fear
fully Iean and nleasly that the ex-soy-
ernor hurled his last shaft, packed his
grip and came home
''The meetings were a failure, said
/ Mfr. Waite last night, 'but l couldn
expect anything else"
The ex-eovern0r's tone was one OF
oyer-ripe melancholy. He had come
into his parior with the meek and low
Iy air Of Puritan There was no
spring IN his steps, and his handshake
was as nerveiess as that Of paralytfc-
His voice was attuned in a soft low
key that fairly oozed sadness and res
ignatiou- He threw himself In an arm
chair with the listIess grace OF a lazy
man from the hot room Of a Turkish
bath
40 20 into Chicago he exclaimed,
which is the gosdbuz headquarters,
was a great mistake Besides. the
weather was terrible There was
blizzard every night. / can't stand
such weather. / have not spent win
ter In the East since 1876, and had for
gotten what the weather was Ike l
know / couldn't stand 1t TO go on East
50 I quit Gave 1t up"
How many people did you have IN
Chicago, GOVERNOR
f-Oye- 400 reserved seats had been
spoken for, but the blizzard kept every
body indoors At Racine the weather
was the same At Joliet 1t was better
But Joliet IS not large place and the
crOwd-ve!l, IT was not large
Mr.. waite set his other boot TO os-
ciIIating- The papers" he went on,
treated me fairly. They did not show
the malignant spirit they did year
ago at the silver convention, when
Bryan Pence and others caught It as
hard as myself The papers still OBJ
pose Us, but more sguarely and fairly
/ thought there was no profit In the
IectUrfng business however, and that
could do as well here as there
Another thing The recent election
has put q qGietus On the political eS-
citement- The people are waiting 10
See what congress VIII do i see no
hope for silver in this congress Or the
next / don't believe that Pence and
Bryan and others can even get a bin
reported believe it's dead / don't
know why people shouldn't think so
I They say Colorado has gone back On
silver, which Is true. There Ii not
much said Of silver. In Chicago there
Z ls no silver sentiment at all. They
Z look On silver there simply as wildcat
banking"
The ex-governor says he regards IL
as impossible for the present condition
Of national affairs To continue more
than ten or fifteen years longer with
I cut destroying the gDTernnent or turn
/ Ing IL into an oligarcnY or aristoeracy.
1T IL that nav, In fact" he saId Iast
night IN the same half-bearted way.
! Therefore the time IL coming" re
went On, brizhtening, when the PoptI-
Z lists must take charge Of the govern
Lnent don't look for II Ia 1896. The
I Republicans will no doubt elect the
next president, not by popular vote,
bat through the house Of representa-
I tives- n that - done the Populists Will
necessarily hold the balance Of power
and II they are In earnest and mean
! business they can compel the adoption
I of some Of the measures advocated ia
! the Omaha platform. This may stave
/ Of the threatened calamity until the
/ Popgllsts can take control"
Nr. Waite says he has some business
I 70 attend 10 and will remain In Denver
for the winter.