The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-07-17

despair. The latter, who was nothing
before he became a cog in the Roths-
child Cleveland machine, is really dis
consulate. Poor fellow, who can blame
him He became rich by sticking to
Grover, and now he has been foolish
enough to sink his earnings from the
gold conspiracy in the Cleveland Whit
ney street railway pool, and he feels
bad Grover is at Buzzard's Bay, a
good place for such buzzard as he is,
upon his alter are in duce of fix.
Rumor says that Grover has so fixed
things that he will be reimbursed for
any loss which he personally may sus-
tain from the failure of the street rail
way scheme, but Carlisle, Smith, La
mont and Campbell are to be ''souped."
Whitney has gone to Chicago, and
David Bennett Hill went with him. Poor
Hill ! If he had stuck by his Elmira
speech, he would have been the logical
candidate of the free silver forces today.
He is at heart a silver man, but he
thinks of d. B. Hill first, and misjudg-
ing the political outlook-he thought
Wall street could control the country,
and SO he espoused the cause of the US
urers. 1t is a pity No one knows
that better than Hill. However, he is
dead, politically, in the reform ranks
he is rotten egg.
Before this letter reaches the major
ity of my readers, the Chicago conven-
ton will be over; therefore it is best for
me to leave politics alone in this letter. |
may say, however, that so far as the |
Populists in Washington are concerned |
the Peoples party will endorse no man
who is not acceptable TO them. 1t is
hard for a Washington correspondent |
to please all people. 1 judge that the
great producing people want the truth.
This is the truth: If the silver Demo
Gratis nominate such man as Teller or
Sibley, he can get the support of the
Populists and silver Republicans. If
not, then not.
That Is the consensus of opinion |
among the Populists and silverites in
Washington. They say: "The Demo
cratic party is dead if it tries to carry
the country upon the free silver cry.
The Democratic party must give some
proof of its honesty. It nominated
Grover Cleveland three times. A party
which will choose as its standard bear
er for twelve years such scoundrel as
Grover Cleveland, must be viewed with
suspicion"
If the silver Democrats are really pa
triots; if they rise above party and
nominate a man acceptable to the Pop
ulists and silver Republicans, he will
be elected; if not, then the true reform
ers should antagonize their tickets and
make such fight for liberty that a
Democrat may be as extinct bird four
years from now as a dodo.
That those who read my letters may
know how the producers of the country
are regarded by their servants, / will re-
produce a conversation which heard
last Sunday evening in Chamberlain's
The two who talked are members OF
the administration. will style them
G. and E. OF course this does not
mean Carlisle aud Eckels If [ said so
it would be libel This is how they
talked:
Mr. c.: 'Do you think, E., that you {
can switch enough delegates at Chi I
cago?"
Mr.. b.. Haven't been controlling
for years. I'll switch them; they don't
know anything about the financial
question anyway"
Mr. c.: you're mistaken. The vot- !
ers in Kentucky are just loaded to the
muzzle with arguments in favor of the
of silver, and they even
quote that old speech of mine"
Mr.. q "Pshaw, that's nothing! Wen E
confuse them on the bond question
They can't understand figures. One Of {
my clerks, whom I sent to Missouri to
counterfeit the work of Taubeneck, told r
me that he heard one farmer trying to
explain to another what the different
bond denominations meant The ex- r
planning farmer said that the 5-3Os, 7-l0s
and 10-50s meant that the working man
had to go to work at $50 a. m, and work
until TAO p. M, in order that the usurer q
might lie abed until 1850 the next =,
morning"
Mr.. G. laughed and said the farmer f;
lad the situation pretty well sized up.
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