The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-09-04
LOCAL NEWS.
sA u "

was Judge in this district, at
that time the Third Judicial dis
trict of Idaho.
1t seems to us that it is about
time THE SILVER MESSENGER,
of Challis, to "throw I'M that
motto Free and unlimited coin
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to
/" which has stood at the head
of its first page so long. 1t is
the general custom to bury the
corpse after a due period of
mourning.-Payette Independ-
ent.
If the Independent will permit
US, We'll not "throw in" that
motto just yet. when victory is
so near at hand; when Americas
great silver champion is so near
the White House door, besides
we do not have to get permission
from Hanna or Shoup as to what
we shall or shall not publish.
If we remember right, the Inde-
pendent two years ago and four
years ago advocated the cause of
silver, Idaho's greatest industry.
But now it has evidently been
Hannaized and Shoupized, there
by throwing in" its principle.
Even Mckinley and Hanna tell
US that silver is an issue in this
campaign, and is a pretty lively
corpse, regardless of what the
Independent may say. If silver
was right in 1896 and 1898 it is
also right in 1900. No question
is ever settled until it is settled
right. The MESSENGER has
stood for silver for over twenty
years without faltering-about
ten years before the Independent
was born-and not having any
party bosses to muzzle US, We'll
not "throw in" that silver motto
nor will we "throw in' in our
principles because Hanna's bar
rel is on tap.
The vertical hand writing is to
be abandoned in the public
schools of New York, and re-
turn made to the slanting Spen'
cerian system. The reason fo1
the is that the vertical system is
now regarded as a fad and that
the style is not liked by business
houses, so that scholars from the
public schools had the slanting
system to learn if they entered
commercial life. The vertical
| system was adopted in Idaho
: about two years ago by the Text
: Book Commission, and conse
quently had to be used in the
public school at this place. L
, is a poor system to learn, anC
2 should be thrown out.
The Buchanan Dramatic Co
are billed to show at Houston
: four nights, commencing Wed
nesday night, Sept. 5th. 1t is
good troupe and the Lost river
people will be treated to a goo'
: play each night.
The list of prominent men VIII
> supported Mckinley in 1896 AM
this year have declared fo
v Bryan, is getting too long TO
publication, even by the bii
8 dailies. They content themselv
y es now with simply the amour
4 cement ofsnew arrivals as the
! land in the Bryan camp of tru
u Americanism. The list was ru
> for time and added to as ne'
rivals were announced, but th
list has now grown too long
be given in full. Of course
must be admitted that democrat
and silver republicans have bee
:, going and are still going, over
u the Mckinley camp, and at fir'
it looked very much as if in til
G. moving process to the republica
" camp was the gamer, but now
k appears that about all who al
leaving their old camp grouno
are going over to take sides wit
IN the great young leader-the tr'
~ and patriotic American and inte
lg lectual giant of the closing ye;
+ of the nineteenth century
Idaho City World.
John Alger and Mr.. Ward
re worth arrived in Challis la
+. Thursday evening from Stanl'
tx Basin, where they have been
n "a prospecting trip. Mr.. Alg
ct has just returned from a visit
lg his old home in Ohio. In spea
e, ing of politics in that state,
.ic says that Republicans, Germa
r. Americans, in particular, a
IS. changing to Bryan by the thou
n ands on the question of imperii
er ism and militiarism, and he w
in not be surprised to find Ohio
}. the Democratic column this fal