The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-09-26
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Have yon had enough of it? Grant
1t that for principles sake you deserted
the Republican party in its sorest need .
grant 1t that you were inspired nv q
holy zeal for what you deemed a inst
cause grant all You ever claimed: vet
have you not had enough of it2 You
expected, no doubt, the alleged friends
of silver among the Democrats and
Populists would greet you as brothers
iaboring in common cause. You had
a right to expect that for is not silver
the PARAMOUNT ISSUEP Yea
you had a right to expect more, for did
you not break off ties that had become
endeared with age and associations
which time had made almost as your
heart strings? How have your hopes
been realized? How has your fidelity
to the PARAMOUNT ISSUE heen
rewardedP Those who claimed to be
warriors with you, arrayed to battle for
the same vital principle, have not met
you heart .throb to heart throb, have
theyS Have they grasped you by the
hand and looking into your faces ex.
claimed, these are our brothers, what
soever we have, share for share, shall
be theirs? They haven't fallen on your
necks and wept loud for JOY, have they I?
Have they done any of the things that
men with common purpose and like
hopes and joys, do do? Then are you
not tired of it all? Alasl it was in an
Inflated moment you wandered away
from the household of your friends
and the true faith! You have brought
yourselves to a melancholy pass in
your generation. Note the down cast
eye and hear the dolorous sigh heaved
up from the heavy heart. Woe is thine,
erring children. The finger of scorn
has been pointed at you by Democrats
all over the state while you still pro-
fess unbounded loyalty to their chief
est captain. Even Popullsts have
spurned you as toads, aud when the
collision was completed between Dem
ocrats and Populists, and the new
thing was born, the POpocrats spewed
you out like filth. Haven't you had
enough yet? Do you pine for more,
patient soulsP Well, you got it didn't
your Even for the small boom of rec
Ognition upon the PopOcratic county
tickets over the state, you grOveled and
implored. Did you get any recognition
anywhere? Oh, you have had de-
lightsome time since you left your
fathers house, haven't you, innOcents ?
And how you have flourished of latel
Soon there will be none so poor to do
you reverence. And, yet, it was not
always thus. But few short weeks
ago, you went forth clad in mail with
joy lit eye, presaging conquest and vic
tory, your defiant shouts ripping the
air. 1t isn't that way now, is it? But
don't be wholly cast down. You took
a little excursion among the Philistines
and you got it in the neck, didn't you?
But in thy fathers house are many
mansions and perchance some doors
have been left aiar. You better get
back before you're wiped Off the face
of the earth. OF course you can not
lug Frederick iiiiiv back with you, but
maybe you don't need him as badly as
you used to. Get in out of the wet
children, the storm is still gathering
get in before it breaks in fury. Don't
wait to be called or sent for, because
you are becoming so few now that ev-
erybody may overlook you and you
will surely perish. You will find
friends at the old Observation-Disclosures
of them-ready to grasp your hands
and heal your bruises, #
In Charities Name,
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