The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-01-09

suspicious that should Reed, McKin-
ley, Allison, Harrison, Bradley or
any of the republican possibilities, all
gold men, too, get named as standard
bearers, they will get his ballot when
it comes to the scratch in November
next And hosts Of good men, re-
publicans, who protest that silver is
their only sun, impress one the same
way. We certainly fear it will come
to pass There are some democrats
of the same nature, but apparently
more democrats than republicans are
sincere in saying they will no longer
be dominated by the eastern wing of
their party. The SIGNAL publisher
has voted the democratic ticket here
tofore, but means it when he says no
gold man gets his vote again. He
don't know what in the wide world
he will do or where he is at, bnt no
gold man he is decided upon. Hope
Davis is ditto.
The trouble is, and our fatal weak
ness and hopelessness, the different
silver elements will not unite. The
popnlst says, "You know that YOU
can't get it in your party; there is
only one thing for you to do-come
to us. Make one step outside of my
party? No, sir. Our Omaha plat
form is perfect. Take the whole Of
it or you are no silver man" The
republican is for silver and will do
anything but drop other republican
teachings for the time being. He
won't do it even in the face of what
the republican congressman, Cannon,
said in the house on December 28 in
advocating the bond measure:
iou' on ine Olnpr SlNe ne SAID VIII
vote against this bill; those in favor of
silver Mt l6 to |. because You want to inn
pair the credit OF the country and force
MS to silver basis; those who support the
administration because it wants gold
bonds. We in our judgment and parri-
otism. stand ready to pass this bill IF it /
is rejected by the senate or the president.
we shall ut least have cast our mite toward
Of Ia y
hare Qiuen q prophecy OF rhnt lce shall
1897"
We all agree upon the main topic
but cannot grasp hands on account of
tumbling into other bitches. An at.
tempt to unite is met with this kind
of talk, taken from an Idaho ex-
change:
This might be a good thing to do in
some states, but what would il accomplish
in the state OF Idaho where every political
party and rybody favors the free coin
age OF silver? II seems to us that cam
paign conducted on this foundation would |
be lacking in interest and in sincerity. II !
would be an attempt TO raise nm issue in
Idaho that does not exist II the repub-
lican party IN Idaho had ever declared
against silver or il there were within its
ranks even pronounced sentiment in
opposition to silver. there might be some
excuse for movement
1t might be good thing to do
if. The good thing the above idea
does do for the eastern gang is to en-
able the eastern wing of the republi-
can party to just slightly overbalance
the western wing; the eastern wing
of the democratic party to Just over.
balance the western ring; and the all
crushing gold boulder rolls resistlessly
on The good that might be done is !
to leave the eastern republican crowd |
narrowed to itself, the eastern demo-
cratic crowd the same; the western |
and southern silver divisions of all |
compilations united and as big as |
either OF the others. The silver ee-
ment solidly welded, the gold crowd |
would be split between democracy !
and republicanism; we would have |
them where they now have us and we !
would have fighting show. But it
will not be done, and after reviewing !
the whole thing, one must write at
the bottom, "Hopeless Despair