The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-11-12
WHERE ARE WE AT2


Z Now that election is over there is
one question which ought to be settled
IA soon as possible. What is TO be
the future alignment of the silver
forces? Will they continue in chaos,
or will they unite? If they unite,
how? In the present campaign the
silver army was divided into three
forces-the democrats, populists and
silver republicans. Because OF that
Bryan was defeated. X The vicious
mouthings of Tom Watson spewed
through the country tended, in states
like Oregon, to keep lukewarm dem
ocrats and silver republicans away
from Bryan and Watson electors
Ir other states it tended to keep
middle of the-road inclined populists
from voting Bryan and Sewall elect
ors.. But what we desire to pay
attention to more particularly is the
situation in this statee~To see the
silver factions of Idaho united on
some harmonious basis is our main
anxiety. First, what are the silver
republicans going to do? We have
heard rumors of move towards or
ganizing silver party in this state
using the silver republican party as
a nucleus We think it will not ma
terialize. What can be accomplished
by that? The silver republicans are
honest in their fight for silver They
have left the republican party for rs
long as it remains the party of the
money power, the trusts, the syndi
Gates and interest gatherers. They
have followed Bryan in this cam
paign--they expect to follow him
from now up to and during the cam
paign OF 1900 How best can they
follow and aid him? BY being a
dissenting wing Of the great silver
party Of the nation, or by becoming
members OF the identical party of
which Mr. Bryan is the leader? The
great body of the silver republicans
OF the state are democrats today, and
il they doubt it let them ask them
selves what part of the platform they
10 not endorse. They endorse silverH
they believe in the criticism of the
supreme court for its income tax de-
cision and they endorse reform in the
direction Of securing a legal right to
tax the great incomes Of the country
They are opposed to government by
injunction and believe in arbitration
OF labor troubles. They endorse the
present democratic plank OF an
equitable distribution of the tariff
among all products of the country,
whether raw or finished, and high
enough to meet all requirement for
government revenues. That is all
the democratic platform and they
endorse it all. We know this he
cause we have heard them all so
express themselves. Now If they are
not democrats and are silver republi-
caus, what is the ground they stand
on? There is no silver republican
platform known to us There Is
nothing they believe in that Is in
conflict with the democratic platform
1t is true some Of the leaders have
made aourishes of speech about being
u great deal different in most every
thing but silver, but we know posi-
lively that the rank and Gle believe
strictly in the present democratic
platform, are democrats at heart,
many proclaiming themselves so
openly, and we know that the leaders
can not swing them away again at
their will and pleasure. They main
tanned themselves during this cam
paign as silver republicans for rea-
Sons Of which we are fully aware, but
those reasons evaporate with the end
ing OF the campaign. They are fol-
hwers OF Bryan, and they can follow
him better aud aid him more in the