Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-12-01
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Idaho silver Republicans are not
ashamed to admit that as the conditions
which caused them TO break away from
their allegiance to the Republican party
and seek a remedy for depression no
longer exist, the time has come for them
to support tho organization under
whose management all things are well
with the nation, rather than for con-
trariness to go finally into the camp of
the Democracy, for whom they have
been quasi allies for several years. M.
Patrie, secretary of state for Idaho, one
Of the Republicans who seeded because
of dissatisfaction with the st. Louis
platform and voted for Colonel Bryan,
a that the time has arrived to return
to the party to which he belonged prior
to the silver break.
G. NJ. Parsons, ex-attorney general Of
Idaho, who also went astray as a fol-
lower of the silver champion. acknowl-
edges hat there is NO reason for disaf-
lection now. The conditions which
caused us to leave the Republican, par
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ity is strongly in evidence now through
out the nation. The cry of free silver
has lost it's force and power to rally
men under strange political banners
These men were counted as heroes by
the Democratic party for adhering to
the course dictated by their Judgment
in 1896. If they We're entitled to credit
for sincerity then in believing the coun-
try needed legislation in favor Of silver,
they are entitled to just as much credit
when they conclude that such measures
are NOT now needed. They live in the
silver country, where local benefits were
to be expected from the advancement Of
silver interests, and would be inclined
to still demand legislation did they con-
slider that their section would be ruined
by not securing such action from the
government. The Salt Lake Tribune,
the ablest free silver paper in the west,
and published in the great silver dis
trict of Utah and the center of the sill
Yer country, has announced that the
best thing the free silver Republicans
can do is to return to the old party, as
fusion has in every instance been a fail
ure and disastrous to public interests In
states and cities.
Senator Teller, of Colorado, still holds
out that he was right in leaving the
party, but in the late Colorado election
the Republicans elected more officers in
the various counties than did the Dem
ocrats, and the silver Republicans
scarcely secured a standing by results,
although for several years past the Re-
publicans had in most cases no party
organization o candidates, so COM
plete was the decentralization of the
forces while free silver coinage was
thought to be necessary for the pros
perity of Colorado.
In New Mexico, although the people
have no vote in, the election Of a ma
tional executive, yet the lines were
pretty sharply drawn at one time, and
the sentiment of the people was UNI
doubtedly in favor of free silver because
Of local interests and because the same
idea as that in Colorado prevailed in the
territory, Grant county, the banner sill
Yer district, then gave an immense ma
jority for a Democratic delegate, but
when the last election occurred the peo-
pie of the territory had already become
convinced that the Republican party
was bringing prosperity to the whole
country, regardless of silver legislation,
and they gave a Republican majority as
great for a candidate nominated on a
gold standard as had previously been
given to the Democracy and a free sill
YER advocate. Even the silver strong
hold of the territory reduced its record