The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-13
Grandest Political Rally Ever Held
in Weiser.
AUDIENCE OF MORE I'll Than 1900
Fred T Dubois, Idaho's Next senator, Ac-
companied the Minnesotan.

Towne was here. His slogan is
still rolling through Washington
county and the echoes will not die
out until the ides of November.
The Weiser Bryan club had made
elaborate preparation and arranged
handsome stand on Perrauiit street.
From Cambridge, Payette, Ontario
and Huntington came fair repre-
sentaiion to hear the gospel of hope.
When The band had played its last
piece there were not less than 1900
people galhered--som estimate 1000.
Lot l. Feltham first introduced
Fred Y Dubois, who made brief
talk in which he declared that the
cry that the silver issue was dead
eminated from such papers as the
Salt Lake Tribune, and was the weak
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to the Establishments OF the gold slde
He then introduced-Mr. Towne.
No such oratory was ever before
heard in Weiser and it will be forever
remembered by those who heard. The
man gave the impression OF high
statesman who felt every utterance
and preached solely for honest love
of his country The Signal cannot
begin to give any idea Of his speech
in its grandeur and it would be use
less to attempt 1T.
He said Jefferson headed the re-
volt against Hamitonianism. He
represented the democratic ideas as
opposed to the semi-monarchia ideas
of Hamilton. His Fundamental prop
osition may be summed up in the
phrase, Equal rights to all, special
privileges to none. +" He founded
the democratic party on the ideas
contained in the Declaration of Inde-
pendence.
/ In time the democratic party be-
came corrupt. 1t drifted away from
| the teachings of the founders Of the
2 party. Lincoln and his followers
$ came out to bring the people back
/ again to Jetfersonan principles 1t
| was to restore the federal govern
S ment to the, principles of Washing
ton and Jefferson.
Jefferson and Lincoln belonged to
+ the same political party-that of the
n people.
J. In tue process of time the repub-
ican party, having done its work, it
d also tended TO become the instru-
IT ment and agent OF the trusts. The
n republican party is not what it was
)t in the days of Lincoln It has come
t. under the influence of bad and de-
ut signing men We are now calleo
2, upon to lay again the foundations Of
1t the republic and bring back the fed
IN eral government to the principles OF
the Declaration of Independence.
/, In every great contingency God ha
l. raised up men TO carry on his sublime
er purpose. This is one of them and Bryan
" is II great leader who wears the white ros'
Of of American chvalry and will lead th'
OF Democratic party TO victory.
e, 1t is a matter Of history that the irs
e. attempts of the few TO control the man.
s. and to get power into their o#n hand
X were 10 tinker with the money of th
I'd people 1t was so in Greece and Rome
al In fact in these countries a monetar'
system was devised that appreciated tn
dollar and deprecated all other values
III including labor and property.
is 1t might seem like bringing Goals t
no New Castle TO discuss the silver question
be in Idaho, but as some who went out o
the Republican party in 1896 had gon
back, he would do so.
INV At this point Mr.. Towne entered int
an elaborate and clear discussion OF tn