The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-07-31
Boise silver Republicans.

Notwithstanding the fact that the
Statesman persists in reading all those
Republicans out of the party who are
honest enough tc prefer good demo-
crat on silver platform to a tool of
the money -grabbers on a republican
gold platform and Notwithstanding the
fact that Mcconnell Shoup & Co.
are sendiug out circulars to the same
effect, declaring with owl-like gravity
that all those republicans who will not
bow down and worship the golden calf
and acknowledge Mcconnell as their
prophet and high priest, are not en-
titled to seats in the republican state
convention nor allowed a voice in the
deliberations of that body; notwith-
standing all this there are large num-
Der of republicans in Boise, the home
of the self-constituted boss of republi-
canism in Idaho, who are independent
enough to do their own thinking and
brave enough to "speak right sout in
meeting" A meeting of this class of
republicans was held at the Columbia
theater, last Monday night and we
copy the following extracts from the
Statesman's report of the proceedings: !:
Mr.. Borah said the republicans Of
Idaho should makea straight fight for
silver if in so doing it was necessary
to support "that brilliant leader, Will
liam J. Bryan" (Cheers.) He favored
reading the McKinleyites out of the re-
publican party, and said that the state
ment that man who supported Bryan
was not good republican was an insult
to the grand leaders of the party in the
past
Attorney General Parsons said it was
proposed to organize club that would
advocate bimetalism and protection.
None of the present. state officers could
have been elected had it been known
they would betray the cause of silver.
Shoup would never have warmed a seat
in the United States senate and Nc
Connel would never have warmed the
gubernational chair. He said Mr.. Hey
burn was q bundle of inconsistencies,
and that Governor Mcconnell had
proved false to the cause of silver and
was travelling over the state telling the
people if free coinage won there would
not be enough gold in the country to
open jack pot. This reference to a
well known feature of a we'll known
game, for which the governor is said to
have decided penchant, was greeted
with loud outlaws all over the house.
Judge Huston said when any one
said he was not good republican he
could conscientiousiy say, "You are a
liar!" 1t was nothing new for him to
be called traitor In 1861 the demo-
cratic party went wrong and he be-
came traitor to it. The conditions
were much the same now. "If it we're
necessary in order to maintain my prin-
ciples," he said, 81 would change my
party as often as 1 change my linen.
Pointing dramatically to the picture
of Lincoln, he said, ''He was that kind
of republican; he was the first presi-
dent l ever voted for; he was the last
president the people ever had and they
won't have another until William j.
Bryan is elected next November. loud
cheers). The speaker said the gold
sharks of Wall street and Lombard
street and the serville and subsidized
press had failed in their efforts to keep
the people from a knowledge of the
condition OF affairs; and the people
would now rule.
The Judge closed with brief history
of his record as silver man, saying
that alone was accountable for the
large vote he received two years ago,
and with bundle of ridicule of the in
ternational agreement idea. "Does not
the face of every American tingle with
shame" he said, "as he witnesses Am
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bowing down to its British rider"