The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-07
THE WAY TO

republicans, to look over the field
with due care. With the repub.
lican party there is less immedi
ate concern for the reason thai
there is no change Of program,
Roosevelt is practically put in
nomination-no work in that field
for their party. The only labor,
on their part, is to submit to the
electors his administration and
the platform upon which they
shall be pleased to place him. Ii
is different with the democracy.
Apparently there is no leader
who, in a general way, commands
in front. 1t is true there are
many able, competent and true
men In their ranks, who have a
following for their services in
behalf of their party and country
on which they may we'll rest with
goodly satisfaction; but not such
d one as commands the whole
party. No one, since Bryan, has
gained that distinction, and
whether he could now do it or
not is not a problem to be solv-
ed. He has announced long since
that he was not a candidate, but
that his services were at the die
tation OF his friends. Politicians,
rather than slatesmen,a are coach
ing a favorite, here and there,
who have shown us little ability
for that prominent position as
we'll could be conceived. 1t is
not a great orator; nor d great
lawyer or a great %iurist nor q
great warrior that is sure to be a
superior executive officer. And
1t is evidently a man of good ex-
ecutive powers, only, who can
be successfully placed at the
head by the democracy in 1904
My hope is that the party will
be j%udicious, and that, in Nov
ember, we may be able to choose
for the presidency a man who
who will be true to the princi-
pies of the party as they were
laid down by Jefferson and Jack
son in their days with such adj
vance views as the times shall
have demanded for tho safety OF
the masses--first, with a careful
guardianship over the rights of
capital wherever used in its
field of honest and
fair increase-but with a strong.
steady and firm hand against the
use of it for t~rickery, oppression
and wrong. If we choose thus
wisely anu go into the campaign
unitedly and fervently our chan
ces are more than even.
But my attention has been di-
rected more to the matters in my
state. The past is laid SO
plainly before us that it would
seem that the least observing
could sec what has been the
cause OF our defeat. A few years
ago that branch of the democrat
party who believed in the sup
remacy Of capital over labor
ran a ticket labelled, by their
master. cleveland Democracy
The populists, who were mostly
democrats in all its theories. and
who believed in the right of lab
or to be fully guarded against
the oppression Of misused cap
ital, also "a a ticket. The pop
ulists also believed in a metallic
currency, which has ever been
the basis OF the democratic party
from its foundation, with no
paper money less than that bas-
cd uron The wealth of the nation.
OF curse there were few re-
publicans who were not bound to
party above principle, who did
valient work for them.
Please refresh your memory
now and give us an account of
the result-yes, / have it now
the republican party carried the
state. The populist party car
ried a grad vote and the Simon
pure party-the Cleveland, Carl
isle, Palmer and their kind are
necessarily filinU afidavi+S RI