The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1902-11-22
WILL THEY DO Irs

After devoting a column of space
to abusing Chairman Donnelly and
charging him with doing all in his
power to keep Frank Martin and
the Steunenberg men out of the
campaign, the Montpelier Exam
liner closes its harpings with the
following impolitic attempt to read
former silver republicans out of the
democratic party:
LAS a result two things will
henceforth be apparent: One is
the passing of Fred Dubois as a
leader in democratic councils and
another is the impoSsibility in the
future of former silver republicans
monopolizing all the nominations
for state officers. In other words
the old-time democrats will take
charge of the democratic party and
conduct its affairs in the future.
The lesson has been painful one,
but it has been we'll learned"
1t is false statement that Dom
nelly did not invite both Frank
Steunenberg and Martin to assist
in the campaign. They both agreed
to assist and Martin at least was
given appointments which he did
not fill, making groundless ex-
cuses for his failure. And so far
as the silver republicans are con-
cerned, without their support the
democratic party would poll several
thousand less votes in Idaho thar
it did at the late election. Why
this continual harping at former
silver republicans? They entered
the democratic party as democrats,
and as such are entitled to partici
patton in the party councils. Be
cause some of them got on the
ticket few of the lifelong demo.
Gratis, who are such because theil
dad and granddad were, are etern-
ally kicking and bowling like
wild hyenaS for no other reason
than the fact that the silver repub-
licans and populists have dared &c
come into their party and Parti'
cipate in its deliberations. Let
these mossback kickers, or holier.
than-thou democrats, keep up their
howl for another two years and
there will not be enough voters
left to in their party to put up a
ticket. We entered the ranks OF
democracy in good faith because
we believed in the principles of the
party; but we are getting mighty
tired of this eternal hammering
from that element in the party who
can see no good democrats but
those born as such and sucked ''on
a democratic bosom. Their minds
are not broad enough to take new
blood and new life into their party
and that is one of the chief reasons
why the party is not more success
full. If the party is to succeed in
this state these harpies must shut
up, and every man in the demo-
cratic ranks, no matter what his
former politics may have been,
must be treated as a democrat and
made part of the great organiza-
ton, working tremendously and
unitedly for success. There must
be no factional fights, no silver re-
publicans, no populistJ, no Steun-
enberg factions, no Hunt factions,
if the party is to regain control OF
the state. So far as we have been
able to learn there are no silver re-
publicans. They lost their identity
as such two years ago, when they
disbanded the party and joined the
democrats. We now demand fair
treatment as democrats and insist
that this internecine war cease be-
fore the party is buried so deep that
it will never be resurrected. These
dyed-in-thewool born democrats, OF
the Examiner breed, have it in
their power to assist in harmonic
ing Ithe party if they only have
sense enough to grasp the situation.
Will thew do it2