Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-17

Silver Voters should Now Begin 10
Organize for Battle in 1900.
Following are the estimated plural
tiles of the Silver candidates elected
on the State ticket.
Edgar Wilson for Congress 5000
Frank Steunenberg, Governor. 1000
j. ID. Hutchinson, Lieut.. Gov. 5000
|. n. Sullivan, Supreme Judge. 3 800
Mart Patrie, for Scc'y State 1900
,. II. Hays, Attorney General 5000
b. Sinclair, for Auditor ....... 5000
l.. .. Rice, for Treasurer ..... Is 500
J. A. Czizek, for Mine Insrect'r i 800
Miss Permeal French, Schl Supt 5 600
Showing that the entire State fusion
ticket is elected by handsome major
tiles. The Populists went it alone
and lost about 5000 votes, while the
eoldbugs gained like proportion.
The Boise Champion aptly says
despite the boast of the goldbugs and
the prediction of Idaho's whilom sill.
yer champion, Senator Shoup, that
this State would swing back into the
gold column, the people OF Idaho have
demonstrated once more their fealtv
to the white metal. They have turned
from the republican party, the cham
pion of the single gold standard, of
trusts, combines and monopolies, in
scorn and buried the petrifS ing car
cass OF a once great party in Idaho
more than forty fathoms deep. The
union vote of the Democrats and Sill
yer Republicans on a square issue,
while it clearly demonstrates the eter-
nal hostility of our people to the single
gold standard heresy, Of which the re-
publican party is tho champion and
exponent, does not ex press the full
measure of popular antagonsm to the
monometalic idea. Every populist
vote recorded in Idaho is also a ring
ing challenge to the single gold stan
dard advocate and a trumpet tongued
evangal OF the gospel of bimetallism.
No sane man conversant with the sit
uation generally throughout the state
can come to any other conclusion than
that the people Of Idaho are loyal to
the cause Of SILVER and WILL at every
election record their votes against the
republican party.
In some counties local causes have
contributed to the success of repub
lican local candidates, but with the
silver forces properly arrayed and
managed the republicans could not
elect a county officer in Idaho. And
this is as 1t should be. Idaho is a state
of vast silver mines. Her people are
interested, therefore, in the fate of sill.
yer, permanently interested. With
free coinage at the ratio of l6 to l our
state would at one bound leap to
prominence among the states of the
union. In tins state whole commune
lies lie PROSTATE and ruined in the
cobra grasp Of the single gold stand
ard. With free coinage these districts
would be distinct with life. Our des-
eIJo Wouiu IeJoISS anu blopih as tilt
rose. Good home markets would
await the products of our farms. Pros
Gritty would abound in every city and
village.
The republican party represents in
this state the opposite OF all this. 1t
is the champion of dearth, of calam-
ity, of prostration the braying advo-
cate OF abandoned mines and deserted
villages. Is it to be wondered at that
the people of Idaho at every oppor-
tunity throttle this monster and crush
out its life? Unless the silver people
in their general state policy become
lunaties or asses, the republicans viii
never win a victory here. The sun Of
that party has sunk forever in Idaho.
Two years from now republican or
ators will haze st their gall, and
after rising to apologize for their ex-
istence will crave permission to crawl
off the earth.o Let the word go back
to the toiling men and women of the
eastern states that Idaho Is loyal to
silver.