The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-05-18
KING BOREAS SAYS HE AND JACK FROST
MADE VISIT TO HELP CHARLIE HUGHES
Hopes to Get Votes of Apple Men for Republicans.
BY J. ID. WHELAN--


10000 troops were sent south later on
&c was carefully explained that they
were there simply to maneuver and
that nothing was meant by it at all.
Anyhow nothing happened. The Re
publican dogs of war were not bark
ing furiously then as they are now,
for they had their own administration
in and could afford to be conservative. !
1t wasn't the other fellows OK which |
was gored. The howl about the dila
tory work of the national government |
is six years late as patriotic cry |
even if it were not always a mislead- |
ing cry, and is six weeks late from the |
standpoint of good politics.
But Jack and l want to do what
we can for Charlie and if we can
make times a little less prosperous in
the apple orchards it will help that
much. If Doc Sullivan and his as
sistants had not been kept here this
year we might have secured some sup
port among the hog raisers. The Dem
ocrats are always the goats on the
hard times issue Cleveland was elect
ed in 1884 in the midst of a panic
which begun under Arthur before
Grover was nominated and four years
later times were so prosperous and
there was so much money in the
treasury that the Republicans made
campaign issue of the fact that Cleve-
land did not spend it. But Republicans
have forgotten about that panic and
subsequent depression as they have
forgotten about the panic of 1873 and
the long years of subsequent misery.
My friend Ben Harrison, fine, cold
gentleman, went in in 1888 and in
1890 we had panic which resulted in
the biggest majority for the Democrats
in the lower house of congress that
was ever given to any party and
which brought about the organization
of the Populist party. This party car
ried four states and polled more than
1,0000 900 votes in 1892 on the hard
times issue, and Grover was returned
to power as a result of the financial
troubles of 1890, and the passage of
Republican legislation like the Nc
Kinley tariff bill and the Sherman
silver act. These Republican laws
were still on the statute books, in
fact, no effort had been made to re-
peal them when the great panic of
1898 broke out, and still we charged
all the bad times to the Democrats,
but denied that the Republicans were
responsible for the other panics and
QepreSSlOQS. WI Will forget ABOUT the
= trouble of 1907 which Senator Aldrich
2 said was the worst financial panic
1 that ever happened in America and
which threw 900 men out Of en-
e ployment in the railroad industry
= alone. We hope that others will for
/ get it too, it's embarrassing. We hope
S that they will also forget that the
S Democrats enacted financial legisla
e ton that the Republicans said the.
favored but would never pass, ant
e that this prevented the greatest pani
S in the history of the world from &C
: companying the breaking out of war
: Consarn em, if the Democrats hat
n just taken this part out in talking a
d we had done, we would have had tn
g panic, and Jack and l would not hav'
t needed to make this extra visit, ant
e your Rip Van Wrinkle contemporar.
d would not have needed to try to gal
d vanize the foreign issue too late TO
k publication.
It "But, l fear that we are up agains
+ it, anyhow, but there is nothing Xix
d trying. Whew, its cold, 1 must bea
n it south to get warmed up. Goodbye.