The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-07-11
THOSE qnMORTALs."

The friends of Senator Teller. unlike
the friends Of silver generally, are adVo-
eating him for the standard bearer Of
the silver forces as though there were
no other available silver man in the
country. Their anxious solicitude for
this one mans nomination leads to
the suspicion that they have some per-
sonal ambition to advance rather than
the interests Of silver.
Wherein is Teller better or strong
er man to unite the silver forcesP Is
it in the fact that he engineered the
Republican gold plank in 1892, obscur-
ing its meaning so that it could be
used to trick western silver mem into
supporting the gold partyP He was
plainly told at that convention, and he
did know, that free coinage plank
could not be adopted for the best rea-
son in the wOrid-simpiy because free
coinage was not, never had been and
never would be a principle Of the Re-
publican party. The St. Louis plank
has made that reason unquestionabe.
Why did not Henry NJ. Teller and the
other "immortals" bolt that convention
then Instead Of putting their heads to-
gether with the goldbugs to knowingly
deceive silver men and to aid the gold
monopoly
There is little silver strength to be
drawn from the Republican party.
The rank and file Of the alleged silver
men that have remainded in the party
since 1892 could never de depended
upon. They were decoys used by the
leaders to keep the Republican silver
men in line with the party. But the
plain declaration for gold and McKin-
ley at st. Louis has knocked any fur
Their decoy business sky-high, but the
decoys hung to their job until the last
moment-until they were virtually
kicked out and told to go by their
party associates.
Are these "immortals" now going to
step in as the self.appOinted and conf
dOnce.Inspiring leaders of the silver
foFcesP We don't much imagine any
such thing. In the first place, like the
Salt Lake tribune, they haven't fully
left their party. Their heads are still
full of Republican fooleries and vagar-
iss, They haven't Abandoned the "pro-
lection anb bimet allism" deception:
they have as little use for Populists
and Democrats as POpullsts and Dem
OcTats have or will ever have for them
They seem to feel that they are several
grades better than the Pope. They
want to pose as the aristocratic silver
leakers to whom every silver man must
bow the head in silent veneration and
worship.
They went to st. Louis to make q
great play for the galleries, and now
they arc carrying out the cut and dried
programme by endeavOring to stamp
EIDE the Pops and Democrats into their
camp. But they will get left. The
Pops and Democrats have got plenty
of better silver men than the "immor-
tails" and they are not going to the de-
coys out Of job to look up president
ial timber.
By their exhibition of egotism, pres
umption and gall, the "immortals" are
making a holy show of themselves.
They had better organize a little choice
and select party of their own at once,
or else sit down in the body of the free
image crowd and W ait until they are
called to the front. At present they
are In delicate and interesting posit-
ion, and they should now and then
show trace of mOdesty,
II they continue as they have begun,
they will soon meet the man that
struck Billy Patterson-Wood River
Ne1CS Miner.