Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-09-13
TowNE, DUBOIS, ALLEN.

occurred Monday evening. I'll
! reputation Of Mr.. Towne as pt
!. litieal orator drew people to hea
him speak from Bruneau vale,
Cold Spring valley, Mayfield, Al
: lanta, Rocky Bar, Pine and othe
!, places, some of them fully so mile
away. The hall was most beaut
fully decorated with flags and bun,
ing, and before the hour named fo
the meeting every seat in the hal
and galleries of the opera house wa
occupied.
The reception committee met tn
distinguished visitors at the depo
and headed by Euterpe Corne
Band they were escorted to the hal
and followed by large number 0
enthusiastic Bryan and Stevenson
voters. Among them were Senate
Allen OF Nebraska, Hon. Chas. A
Towne, Hon. Fred T. Dubois, Hon
<. |. Perky, chairman Democrat,
State committee, Chairman Arney
OF the Silver Republican committee
Chairman Andrews Of the Populis
committee, Frank Martin, Demo
cratic candidate for attorney gen
eral, DR.. Plummer, Democratic
nominee for state treasurer, anc
others whose names we failed tt
secure.
| Chairman Perky introduced Hon
E. M. Wolfe as president of the
meeting, who after few well. timed
words introduced Hon. G. A. Towne
as speaker of the evening.
Mr.. Towne was greeted with great
applause, and held the close atten-
ton Of the audience tor nearly two
hours. The first part of his speech
was devoted to the silver question,
which was handled in a mastery
manner indeed. Then he spoke OF
two distinct ideas of government
force and consent-and showed
that a government without consent
OF the governed was based on the
old doctrine Of the divine right of
kings. He showed how the great
democratic party of Jefferson had
forgotten it's principles, and these
principles had been taken up by
Lincoln, but now the republican
party had forgotten the traditions
and principles which had called it
into bting, and the Democracy had
again taken them up-so to-day
it is the Democratic party that
stands for the Constitution and the
great Declaration of Independence
and the republican party does not.
He quoted Lincoln and the repub-
lican platform of 1856 to show that
Lincoln was Jeffersonian demo-
crat, hence Bryan, Lincoln and
Jefferson all represented the same
principles. He paid his respects
to those silver republicans who had
left the republican party when they
only suspected that party of treaoiil-
cry, and asked them why at this
hour when they knew it had played
them false, they should return to it.
For years the republican party
stood for bimetallism, but in '96,
when it betrayed the cause of silver
under the thin disguise OF an inter
national agreement, Senator Du-
bois and other true bimetalists
walked out of the st. Louis conven-
ton, and he desired them to remain
true to Mr.. Dubois and return him
to the United States Senate, where
he had fought SO nobly for silver.
He asked the goldbugs how pa
per dollar, made by bank, the
paper of which is worth nothing,
could be better even than 81 cent
dollar. Or why silver should not
be used, at least, instead of bank
made paper money. This would
10 say the least help the mining in
lustry of Idaho and do no one any
larm except bankers. The repub-
lean party processes to be in favor
If building up fine nations indus
.ries, why not take this method of
up the industries of Idaho.
Mr.. Towne then turned to imperial
sm-showing vast difference be-
ween Imperialism and expansion,
ind proving by McKinley's own
lcts that he is now an imperialist
hough occupying the seat of presi-
lent of this great republic. He
howed that that the Democratic
oarty was the party of expansion
hat excepting Alaska every foot
# territory added to the original
thirteen states was added under
democratic administration. But
he Democratic party does not
Imperialism. His ell
'quent apostrophe to the flag and
What it represented created great
and loud cheering, as
lid the name of our great leader,
Bryan, when mentioned. One of
dr. Towne's telling points of the
vening was when he fully demon
trated that Mckinley upheld and
ostered slavery in the Sulu archi-
'elago. He scored the Statesman