The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-09-15


but this is the last sample of
what l could find of the wreck.
He sold the Jacket mine here for
100000 cold, to the present
company. Says his other claims
are just as good, so his Boise
friends need not fear any i'm
mediate danger of his being on
the county.
POLITICALLY not goldbug in
the Jacket, all for Bryan and
Sewall.
Three saloons, two stores
and two restaurants. Mail three
times a week. No Cinnamon al
lowed in the camp"
The three B's-Bryan, Bread
and Bimetallism.
Jack Hill formerly of this
place but now located in Custer
county, was at Pine Grove last
week in the capacity of a deputy
sheriff, where he captured two
men who had robbed a safe of
several hundred dollars, in Gus
ter county.-Elmore Bulletin.
NoTICE.-Bids will be receiv-
ed on or before Sept. 29th by the
Board of School Trustees of Dist.
No. 1, Challis, Idaho, for 10 cords
of wood. Wood must be dry fir
and Aft. in length and sound.
By Order of the Board. M. M.
SWEET, Clerk.
We have been told that the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine at
Wardner, Idaho, which is con
trolled by the Standard Oil Com
pany, is endeavoring to force its
employees to vote for Mckinley.
Attempts by corporations, firms,
or individuals to influence the
votes of men in their employ are
almost invariably resented. No
matter how cautious the pro-
ceeding may be, or how much
care may be taken to avoid any
appearance of dictation or un-
warranted interference in a per-
sonal and private affair, the av-
erage wage-worker dislikes any
attempt on his employers part
to show him how he ought to
discharge his political duty. He
holds that, as voters, all citizens
who have the right of suffrage
stand on an equal plane. He
knows that his ballot will count
for just as much as that of the
man for whom he works. He
feels natural and just pride in
the fact that his his vote will go
Ijust as far as that of the million
aire in deciding who shall or who
shall not be elected to this. that
or the other Office, or what polio.
les shall or shall not be indorsed.
He understands that the wages
which he receives give his en-
ployer the right to his work in
factory, mine, mill, or whatever
occupation he follows; that it is
his duty to do his work we'll.
But his obligation ends there.
He will brook no meddling with
his vote by the man or men by
whom he is hired, for the reason
that he regards such interference
as equivalent to asserting a claim
on his vote as hired man. We
say that no man who has a spark
of manhood or patriotism will be
forced to vote as his employer
dictates. This is true, and the
thousands of votes of Republican
workingmen which have been
lost to Mckinley was the result
of the tactics adopted by Marx
Hanna at the outset of the cam
paign. Hanna it was who sent
out letters to all the big corpora
tions in the country urging them
to bring all the pressure they
could command to bear on then
employers and orgrnize them in
to Mckinley clubs. Acting on
the suggestion of Hanna, who is
an arch corporationist himself,
and regards the men employed
by corporations as nothing mor'
than so many dumb animals to
be driven and bullied, quite {
number of railroad manager.
proceeded to coerce their EN-
ployes by thinly yelled threats
that unless they voted for Nc
Kinley they would be discharg
ed The attempt to thus MAKE
slaves of American workmen ha.
, been resented by the labor or
, CARNATIONS with disastrous effec
on the Republican campaign. L
will result the same way at War
dner regardless the efforts o
Hepburn and others. 1t is quite
safe to say, in view of the fac
that the Australian law is il
, force today in nearly all of th'
ctataS of tho ITniop that thouS