The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-11-30

in this city last Thursday night.
1t was the event of the season.
It is estimated that over one
hundred enjoyed the terpsichore
art.
VIM. Bradshaw, of Dickey,
spent Thanksgiving in Challis.
Mrs. F. j. Clyde and Mrs. R.
J. Alcorn of Clayton spent a few
days in Challis last week.
Mr.. Anderson, of the stage
line, arrived in Challis last night
from Dillon, Montana.
Grover Cleveland makes a
speech to bis son 1t would be
a great scoop to overhear and
publish some of the speeches
which Grover Cleveland is MAX
ing to his new baby nowadays.
He is probably speaking some
thing after this style my
son, should you grow up to bea
great a man as your father, you
will find to your sorrow, that
that there is nothing which the
world so much enyies as real
greatness. l do not mean the
spurious kind like Bayard's and
Carlisle's but like mine and Dan
Lamont's. You will find that if
you cousent-for $50, 900 per an
mum, free rent. railroad passes
and free fishing-to serve this
country for eight years, and
preach reform to the people on
every convenient occasion, there
will still be men who will not ac-
cept your counsels, and who will
dominate some of your most
studied sentences as mere stilted
demagogy. You may even lead
a portion of your old party slav-
es off into new party of your
own, only to lind the whole bust
ness repudiated. | don't mind
admitting to you that just now
my advice to the American people
seems TO be derided, and that my
Immediate party following seems
to be in the middle of about the
tightest political place that ever
men were caughtin. Fortunate
ly for me, / have reached a point
where | can hide behind my own
dignity, and refrain from express
sing my real feeling. But I am
of a most sensitive makeup and
I confess to you that l suffer.
The only way of comfort that
steals into my colonial front
window is in the defeat of that
reptile German. True, he did
me a great turn when once he
kicked the stufing out of Billie
Wilson bill, for had that car
ried, as l see it now, l would
have been forced to recognize
belligerent rights to those in
fernal rights in Cuba, and to get
up war with Spain to have di-
verted the attention of the people
from their own sufferings. |
pity you, my son in advance,
when I think of you trying tc
serve q people like this; who are
destitute alike of either apprec-
iation or common gratitude
Why, my son, when the treasury
was fat broke, l negotiated {
loan through my friend Morgan
of New York. He worked very
hard and only drew down S13,
100000 in commissions, an6
there were men so morrow thai
they even growled at that.
really founded a reform party
and set it booming. 1t ought Il
have linked my name with tina
of G. Washington, but this yeal
} the people have showed it unde
too deep for any spring thaw t.
} loosen it up. If you take afte
me. my son, you will have to g
into politics to make a living
but you must prepare yoursel
for manifold disappointments
What, you want the bottle
My, my. but the laws of heredit,
! are inviolable. Well all right
Here's to you.-Salt Lake Trit
une.
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5 met with kind returns from il
patrons; and has been very fol-
tunate in not having had to cal
+. upon them in its columns for aid
! and, indeed, does not do so now
I but time has run so long and s.
many have never looked owe
1 that we will say to one and a
that if it is possible we wis
! every one to settle with US i
full up to January 1st, 1898. W
will take grain, beef, pork, bu
ter, poultry in marketable cond
o ton; Wood-in short, almost any