The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-06-26
Brabster Vests Letter.

On the evening of June IL the people
must have experienced feeling of re-
lief, like man awakening afler being
oppressed by nightmare, for that day
Fifty-fourth Congress adjourned.
There have been Congresses which COW
cred themselves with odium, but this
is the first which was so cowardly and
mediocre as to do nothing at all. True,
it passed filed cheese bill, but the
members only did it for self-protection,
for with but few exceptions they were
skimmed-milk lot of pseudo states
men.
The adjournment sine die of the
House of Representatives was funEier
than any farce ever staged. Many of
the members had already scurried off
to st. Louis, there to lend their voices to
the voiciferous demand of the national
banking and other unprincipled rob
bers for the nomination of Mckinley,
who dare not tell the truth concerning
his position upon the financial question
if elected President, and consequently
does his lying by his proxy, Mark
Hanna, the English-faced representa-
i've of the millionaire manufacturers and
the ally of Rothschilds.
Speaker Reed, who is so rotund that
that when he dies his biography should
be entitled "a Tale of Tub" was i'll at |
ease, for that morning he had heard the
direful news that the wet-nurse of his
Presidential boom,J. H. Marley, had
placed Mckinley pillow over the in
fant's face and smothered it. His ex-
ASPIRATION was made manifest by the
unwonted shrillness of his voice, which
at the best is cross between croak
and squeak, resembling that of boy
in his teens whose voice has cracked.
Congress had agreed to adjourn at
o'clock, so half an hour earlier, Bailey,
of Texas shook the long hair out of his
eyes, took up several gathers in his
voice, and warned the Republican party
that their name would be "mud" if they
adopted at st. Louis, platform that
which straddled upon the money ques-
coming from man who proposes to
nominate an antrusworthy old Bour-
bon Democrat such as Bland or Boies
upon silver platform at Chicago.
However, the Populists will this year
relegate Bailey to his old job of call
ing the cattle home with his muff1ed
voice.
Four o'clock came. Reed arose in
his ponderous adiposity and squeaking-
ly thanked the House for the good
work it had done. What he meant no
one knew; even the members grinned
uncomfortably as the people in the gal
aries laughed derisively. Then he de-
clared the House adjourned sine die
and waddled away to catch train for
ST. Louis, with look of malevolence
in his piggish eye which BODIED no good
to his recreant lieutenant. The mem
bers faded away to st. Louis or their
homes after parting smiles and the first
session of the Fifty fourth Congress
had passed into comic history.
The political situation remains I'M
changed. Before this letter appears in
the columns of the NUGGET, Mckinley
will be the candidate for Repulicanism,
usury, protection and humbug 1t is I
currently reported here that a cam !
paign fund of s20,0O0000 has been
pledged by the London and New York !
gold conspiritors, the national bankers ;
and the millionaire manufacturers for ,
his election. Even the Washington :
Post, goldbug paper, has given Gre
dence to this report, and l am con
WINGED it is true. The voters may be .
sure that for every dollar expended by
the unholy combine, 500 will later be /
squeezed out of them.
The Democratic leaders seem to be-
ieve that they can take advantage of Y
the demand of the South and and West d
for free silver by adopting such plat =
form and nominating trimmer upon r
it. 1t will not go. If they 90 the Dem
ocratic party will be third in the race
this year. No man not acceptable
to the Populist and Silver parties will
receive their support. Only two will m
they consider, Sibley and Teller. Boies,
Of Iowa, the champion topper of the is
country, who is all things to all men, k
has written an open letter remonstrat- II
ing against the nomination of any man
save an old Democrat meaning Boies te
AS contrast, Sibley has written me, rs
saying $50 that harmony may prevail, o,
hat the friends of financial reform may r,
,of l,o oo,,o 80 ~. Al,