The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-09-01

with high and heroic courage.
1t was this which endeared for
so long the Republican party to
our people; and when you sue
ceed in committing it to the doc
trine that we have passed to that
point where we must take our
wrongs to another tribunal than
where resides the intelligence
and judgment of our citizenship
to have them righted, you have
not only ignored the traditions
of the past, but you have term
mated the career of the greatest
party in the annals of party
history"
News was received here that
Mrs. Robt. Dearden died at
Blackfoot last Thursday, Aug.
81. Mrs. Dearden was one of
the early settlers in Challis, and
was highly respected by all who
knew her. She was well advan-
ced in years and had been feeble
for some time.
A. J. Pierce arrived in Challis
last Saturday from Pocatello.
Leroy Hillman, foreman of the
Skylark mine, was in Challis last
Saturday.
AT a meeting of the Populist
central committee for Custer
county, held at Challis last Sat
urday afternoon, and in which
all the county precincts were
represented except two or three,
it was decided to hold the county
convention to nominate county
officers, at Custer on Sept 80.
A man with a push-cart was
selling silver literature in front
of the War Department, Wash
ington, when an officer of a
prominent bank appeared and
entered into a discussion with the
vendor on the merits of the sill
yer question 1t was surmised
by the on-lookers that the vendor
got the better of the argument,
as the bank man turned on his
heel and said: You have no
right to peddle such trash. /
shall go and get an officer who
will arrest and imprison you"
The man protested that he had
not occupied the sidewalk or the
street longer than the law allow
ed. The aggressive banker was
not satisfied, but secured the
services of an oficious policeman
who arrested the peddler and
locked him up, although he had
enough money to bail himself
out. The case is to be heard in
the police court The members
of the Bimetallic League in the
city are indignant and propose to
push the matter. A. J. Lips
comb, Democratic elector of Vir-
ginia and a prominent attorney
of Washington, has been retain
ed, and ex-Congressman Bland
will be invited to act as an
assistant counsel
Tell US not in mournful numb
ers, life is but an idle dream; for
we see that wealth controls US
and we are not what we seem
Rights, that once our statutes
gave US. now no longer can we
claim; for the Shylock buys con-
ventions and the candidates doth
name. What are we that we
should grumble, DER the, plat
form that he writes; y the task
of common people, to believe
what he indites. Cringe, We
slaves, for Wall street Shylocks
have the g. o. p. in hand; you
must vote for Bill Mckinley and
for gold, alone, must stand. All,
but listen to the murmur, of the
thunder DER the plains; as the
people rise in anger, to protest
against such claims. Down
with tyrant gold, they re SnFut-
ing, tout upon those blatant
knaves; we are freemen and, by
thunder, none can sell US out as
slaves. We're for silver and
for freedom and our clans are
brave and true; we can beat that
Bill Mckinley and his Wall street
masters. too" Silver . Silver !,
shouts the chorus, from the hill
tops far away, while the millions
in the valleys, sing its praises
every day. Silver viii increase
our wages, it viii give us work
each day; for twill thwart the
mighty Sbylock and we will take
his power away. Rising prices
for our products, business for
idle men; all will come to bless
the nation, when silver's money
once again. Plenty will return
TO millions and prosperity will
reign, in the home of every work
man. when silyer'S coined free