The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-07-07
McKin1ey Ia Doomed.

Henry Lewis, the noted political
writer, telegraphs as follows
Two months ago [ wrote from
Washington that the west would
bolt Mckinley and gold at the
st. Louis convention. The west,
the silver west, has marched out.
The revolt is practically accom-
plished. The white savages OF
silver are leaving the reserva-
tion for the warpath. Their
great medicine man, Teller, has
set up the war pole and the
young bucks vie with one anoth-
er as to who shall be the first to
strike his war ak into it, as proof
of his enlistment. The mutiny
is on. Rebellion is afoot, and
the silver west, with it's own
candidate and it's own platform,
will wage war on gold and the
east.
This means defeat of Mckinley.
Possibly the death of Republi-
canism.
Not the least significant of the
signs of the hour is the steady
confidence with which the silver
forces march away. They leave
their fellows of gold as Dundee
left the Whigamore of Edinburg,
their feathers tossing, their ban
ners wide fluug and free. They
nail their gauntlet to the gates
of gold and the east stands defied
to uttermost of war. They have
remembered what the east for
got. They, too, have country
and a cause. There is a west as
well as an east. Silver has it's
clans, as we'll as gold its people.
The allied natives the east for
got; the west did not.
And so the silver fighters go
back to their tribes. Hannaism,
McKinleyism, an overreaching
east playing the hogs part in its
golden selfishness have split the
party. The last chance of sue
cess for the Republicans has dis
appeared.
There be hills beyond Pentlald,
And friths beyond Forth.
II there be lords in the Lowlands,
There be chiefs in the North.
The east can laugh at these
people. The east should laugh
at these people less and study
them more. This eastern policy
of the tip-tilted nose has already
cost it the south. That region
glowers at the east across its
borders, and the fires of it's bat
red never die. Today the west
arrays itself against the east, and
begins running out it's line Of bat
tie. The west has become ally
to the south, and the ally will be
found the harder, more indomit-
able enemy than the original foe.
1t is pleasant and easy for the
east to come from its baths and
its gardens, its games and its
houses of marble and gilt to idle
about the forum and malign the
west and call its people Goth and
Vandal. But it may hardly prove
profitable. The east might bet
ter recall what the Goths and
Vandals did to Rome.
These silver people are the
Swiss of America. They are
poor in all save courage. They
have heard their war horns
sounding and the battle is on.
They will fight with the cool
valor of buccaneers. When the
east goes against them. pride
blown, purblind in its conceit of
riches, yet really weak with the
possession of that which it relies
most upon-its money-it will be
the old story of Charles of Bur
gundy over again. The Swiss
will win, and whereas just terms
might have once been made with
them in their hour of might and
wisdom, the west will grant as
little as it got. What was done
to the west, the west in its turn
will do.
These silver men have already
made captive the senate of the
United States. There they ap-
pear the veriest Spartans of
legislation. They can hold the
senate passes against all or any
measure. They fought the Ding
ley bill to it's death. They boast
ed that you should never have
protection until they had free
silver. They made good their
boast in the session of congress
just ended, and the Dingley bill
left unburied on the field testifes
not only to their plans, but to
their to carry them out. What
they did to the Dingley bill they
will return in December to do
again to any legislation that may
levy silver war against.
Mckinley is beaten, and now