The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-08-07
"Bolting" Republicans.

The pie-eaters in Idaho choose to call
all Republicans who stand by every re-
publican platform and every edict of
the party made prior to the ST. Louis
convention, 'bolters." Identically the
same condition exists in Utah, and
they have few republicans there who
would make very fair running mates
for Messrs. Shoup, Mcconnell & Co.
In that state they are trying to read
the silver republicans out of participa-
ton in the state and county conven-
tions, the same as the pie. eaters are at
tempting to do here.
Hon. Frank J. Cannon, who is the
acknowledged leader of the silver re-
publicans in Utah, has issued an ad
| dress to republicans of that state, which
should be read by every republican in
Idaho, before the county and state con-
ventions meet. The NUGGET regrets
that it can only give room to single
extract from this admirable address
"There is no necessity for RepubH-
cans to enter into the Democratic party
or to vote its ticket in order to work
effectively for bimetallism. On the con-
trary, three Republican electors from
Utah and other Republican electors
from surrounding states, by casting
their vote in the electoral college for
William J. Bryan, as a bimetallist, will
do more for bimetallism than Demo-
cratic electors from the same States,
and performing the same act would do;
for this reaSon-that elevated to the
Presidency by the vote of men who
themselves have arisen superior to par
tisanship, William J. Bryan would feel
that his fellow citizens of all classes
and all parties, had realized with him
the sanctity of this mighty cause, and
had found in him its trusted defender.
The people of Utah, OF all parties, could
do no more gracious or helpful act than
to invest this resp possibility and author
ity in Republican hands under solemn
covenant to thus cast the electoral vote
of the State, since many Republicans
here expect to and are willing to trust
a still greater authority to William ].
Bryan a Democratic bimetallist
"If the assumption is unjust that po
htical authority within the Republican
party is to be used to exclude the mass
of the party from participation in con-
ventions and to abrogate Republican
doctrines, then no harm will have been |
done to any man by this letter But if
your implication in this mornings edi- |
torial is correct, it is none too soon to
sound warning note. | respectfully |
invoke the activity and the courage of
the Republican men and women of
Utah, who know that human justice is
the first consideration, that party is |
not so dear as truth, that Offices are
not so important as principles, and, |
who, out of their knowledge and their
bravery in this trying time can send |
word Of comfort from ocean to ocean,
lifting up the respondent and assuring
the less hopeful and less comfortable of |
the land that within these mountain
businesses is no room for threat or fear.
I respectfully suggest to the believers
in bimetalism. within the Republican
party chat they have the right to stand
on the party platforms of this State.
The last official declaration of the par
ty here, declared bimetallism to be the
issue of the times. There
has been no official acceptance of the
81. Louis financial plank by the Repub-
licAns of Utah. No executive commit
tee, no central committee, no newspa-
per, no authority is sufficient to limit
our right to work from the primaries to
the State convention to control it in
the interest of justice and party su-
premacy."