The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-03-23

WANT TO SIDE-TRACK BRYAN
And Smother the Silver Cause. Our Regular
Political Letter.


Chicago, ILL.,, March 23, 1899
was handed letter written thi.
week by very prominent politician,
residing in New York City, whose
fight for bmetalism two years age
not only made him very prominent
hgure in state politics, but also re-
suited in his withdrawal from the So
ciety known as "Tammany." 1t was
written to local bimetaIist, whose
fame is national, but who requested
that no names be given in connection
with the letter Among other mat
tiers, the writer says:-"You bimet-
allists out in the great middle west
are doing great work Keep it up
and it will not be long before the
cheap politicians of Tammany Hall
will get in line or hunt for cover.
We can whip them to death if good
fight is put up down here, but it may
be best to let them make their own
path, and incidentally, dig their own
grave. God never tried to make q
more contemplate creature than a
loyal adherent to Croker, yet he did
make the pole cat, the hyena and G
Cleveland'to say nothing of Benedict
Arnold and others of his ilk. Do
not attempt to placate, temporize
with, or please them. Let this Tam
many Hall outfit understand right in
the beginning that they can't swing
Democracy over to the gold stand
ard and you may perhaps, in the end,
il you are firm, gain their respect and
also their support for the regular
nominee Of our party in 1900. Moth
ing is to be gained by recognizing
them as Democrats, when they show,
by their advocacy of the gold stand
ard, that they belong to the class thai
has been read out of the Democratic
party by every one of its prominent
leaders.
81 have now the complete story of
the Dewey boom for president.
Croker is behind it and is endeavor-
ing to pull Hearst in too. get this
from the inner circle of the inner
temple of the Tammany Society.
Notwithstanding Dewey has declined
the nomination, they are still at him,
for they want to kill off w. J. Bryan,
and the issue Of bimetallism. Look
out any day for a new boom for Dew
ey. In a word the opposition are
getting desperate +"
Knowing that w. H. Harvey, Gen
eral Manager OF the Ways and Means
Committee was in close touch with
the political pulse of the country
and, having positive convictions, that
his views of the move of Eastern
gold standardites to drift the party
from bimetallism, would be of inter
est l asked him yesterday what he
thought of it?
81 know there is combination at
work, " said Mr.. Harvey, managed
by New York gold democrats, to run
Admiral Dewey for president on the
Democratic ticket next year. This is
why we hear that the climate of the
orient does not agree with his health.
1t they can get him to come home
The scheme will be sprung and pushed
for all it is worth. They will rely on
his immense popularity to pull him
through and make him the democratic
nominee in 1900-and that same phe-
nominal prestige to secure his cleo
ton"
"What do you yourself think of
him as a candidate for the presi-
decny?" asked
ut would be very unwise," he re-
piled. ''He is military man and
our relief depends upon peaceful
methods that rely on craftsmanship
through economic laws. Militaryism
means cruelty and conquest; with
the minds of the people diverted
from those problems, without the So
luton of which, the Republic must
soon cease to exist, -tenantry, slave
" and European conditions, our fate.
Admiral Dewey has no connection
with civil questions and he could nat
lrally be expected, on economic
problems, to be the mouthpiece of
The capitalists of the East who will
bring him out as a candidate and put
up the money to run his campaign.
He would be used as spectacular
irama to obscure and sidetrack the
great questions now pressing for sol
ition which involve humanity. The
ssue is now between greed and hu-
nanity; and the military has ever
been used, consciously or uncon-
ciously, as the strong right arm of
freed. Dewey is hero of the Amer
can people; but as the presidential
andidate of the Capitalists of the
Cast, he is positive danger.
"What significance will the vote
or Carter H. Harrison and John p.
Altgeld, for mayor of the city of
lineage, have on the financial ques-
ionY' asked MIR. Harvey.
"None whatever" he Immediately
eplied. ''Both of these candidates
ave declared for bimetallism, 16 to l.,
nd independent action of the United
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