Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-10-02
CONVENTION NUMBER 2.
SILVER REPUBLICANS MET ONCE
MORE AT BOISE.
They Nominate u New State Ticket
and Give Some Places to the
Democrats.

Boise, Sept. 26.-The silver republican
convention reconvened here today. All
the populists, George Lewis, for secre-
tary of state. James Gum for congress
and George Moore for lieutenant COVER
nor were pulled down. The following
were nominated instead: Congress, W.
e. Borah, republican; secretary of state,
Charles Darrons of RoSeburg; lieutenant
governor, e. B. True of Warrens, both
democrats.
To Idaho's Voters.
Boise, Sept. 26-To the Voters OF
Idaho:
THAT the position of the silver repuD-
licans of Idaho may be understood, we
give to the public our reasons for re-
convening our state convention and with
drawing from our ticket the popullst
representatives who were placed there
on by the action of our convention held
August g.
I'VE have been compelled to take this
action because of the attitude of the
peoples party committee of the state,
Moved by an honest desire to consolidate
the silver forces of Idaho in support of
the principle which binds US together as
| a party, we proposed to their representa-
tives in their official capacity as execu-
| tive committee of the peoples party, that
| they give recognition to the democrats,
populists and silver republicans alike up
| on a common ticket, to be submitted to
| the voters of the state for their suf-
| frages.
This proposition was made at the sug-
gestion and earnest solicitation of the
peoples party national committee and
| the democratic national committee, who
urged their respective state committees
| 10 take this action, because of the evil
| effects a refusal to recognize the silver
| republicans of Idaho was having upon
| the voters in other states, thereby pref
udicing the interests of William J. Bry-
an in his candidacy for the. presidency.
THE national committee for the peo-
| pies party by letters and kilograms
urged this action upon the leading popu-
| lists of the state. Letters were address
| ed to them both personally and in their
official capacity as members of the pop
ulist organization of the state urging
| them for the good of the cause to give
| immediate recognition to the silver re-
publicans of the state. These letters
were absolutely suppressed, and their
contents withheld from the masses OF
the populist party of the state, who were
fully entitled to be taken into the con-
| fidence of their leaders, and at the same
| time fully informed as to the wishes OF
| their national party.
ITO the appeal of their national com
mittee, the populist committee of the state
| turned deaf ear. The possibility that
their action might result in injury &c
| MI. Bryan and the cause of free silver
| failed to move them.
| In strong contrast to their action was
| tie action of the democratic state com
| mittee. The latter committee by voice
and resolution urged upon the populist
committee the necessity of complying
| with the national committee, in order tC
| avoid complications in other states.
1.-The executive committee of the sill
yer republican party, moved by patriot.
| lc desire to subordinate everything to the
| success of Mr.. Bryan and the cause which
| he represents, offered to surrender all
claims to recognition upon the state tick.
ct if the election of United States sena-
tor was relegated to the people to be by
them decided without dictation or inter
| ference. This, the populist committed
| also refused, and in return demanded
| that the democratic party carry out its
| agreement to deliver to the populists @
| the state the political liberty of theil
democratic members, who might be elect
| ed to the legislature, to the end tina
a populist might be returned to the Unit
| ed States senate in place of the nationa
cha NIPPON of free silver. Hon. Fred Il
| Dubois
"All these actions of the populist party
| of the state, through it's authorized anC
accredited officials, have alienated al
| consideration for them as a party, ant
| forced the democratic national commit
| tee, through its authorized agent, to of
| ficially declare that the contract made b,
| the democrats in their convention will
| the peoples party was without bindins
force upon party or individual member,
| thereof.
Such utter disregard for the cause O.
| silver men who have always assumed
| to be its only true advocates
has compelled us to with
| draw their representatives from oul
| ticket. The responsibility for this actor
must rest, therefore, upon the ofticia
leaders of the populist party of the state
They have spurned and rejected ever,
proposition looking to a complete unior
upon any equitable basis. They have IN
structed and advised their leaders in ev
cry county in the state to refuse to IL
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