Show ELIJAH WHERE ART THOU I While goldbug contemporaries are rejoicing re-joicing over the Tribunes abandonment F abandon-ment of the silver fight as announced I i in a recent editorial the Boise CapItal r mourns with us its going It refers i to the fact that the editor of the Salt Lake Tribune has received recogmtion by many as the Elijah of the bimetallic dispensation For years he has been a voice crying in the wilderness to prepare i pre-pare the way for toe better era Like his prototype he has broken down the t altars of the gold Idol worshipers torn lowii their images put their cringing t prophets to the sword and drawn the plowshare over their entombed and deserted de-serted fanes It calls attention to the place of prominence given our neighbor because of its never again editorials three l short years ago and adds But alas Elijah is now under the juniper tree sniveling his discouraging L plaints and ready to surrender the heroic he-roic legions who in IfcSG carried the 1 silver banner so near to victory and I t who are now sounding the bugle for another charge upon the quaking and t n terrified plutocrats He runs up the 1 white flag He cries It is enough He wails like a sick girl He whines J with chattering teeth and knees knocking knock-ing together Our judgment Is that it is useless to make another stand for silver in this country until conditions change We are in doubt which to apply the pitying glance the encouraging encour-aging word or the scourge His cowardly cow-ardly words in the hour of preparation for battle has had the effect of splitting the cars of the gold standard groundlings I ground-lings but the judicious are grieved They have been rolled as dainty mortis mor-tis under the tongues of the enemies of bimetallism and quoted encouragingly encourag-ingly by gold standard sheets They 4 have wounded loyal hearts and brought shame and confusion of face to true frlnds of reform They are as a smoke t in the nostrils of brave men eager to measure arms again with the Republican fr Repub-lican Goliath who maA with spoils and J drunk with dreams of imperial glory and conquest struts before high heaven and defies the armies of Israel I All of which is true There isnt a goldbug sheet in the country but Is = copying the Tribunes editorial and > asking the followers of Hannato takeS take-S courage from this indication of disintegration disin-tegration on the part of the silver forces They do not seem to realize that the silver forces are stronger today to-day than they ever were For the mall mal-l contents and traitors and Insincere sup portsrs of the cause are being weeded ouLThe The Capital caSs attention to the decrepitude de-crepitude of the excuses our neighbor It gives for its desertion and says C Most inopportune comes this wall of woe from the erstwhile champion i of silver prostrate and disconsolate under the juniper tree The Pemocrat r ic party has been diligently purging io from its ranks the gold standard traitors 2 trait-ors the cowardly wretches who put up Palmer in 1836sto aid in the election of McEvinley Bryan Daniels Jones and other true Democrats have 7 scourged the last one from the band aud1 150 ° they WIN be found openly i h I SuWi supporting the republican ticket which they supported Secretly in 183t The masses of the Democratic pedple are true to silver and the Chicago platform plat-form They have been betrayed by gold standard leaders at times but they have taken them by the throat and choked them into comparative silence si-lence if not into submission That Democracy in 1896 had the courage to shake herself free from her plutocratic leaders and again declare for the people peo-ple is one of the miracles of history Every indication now points to a repetition repe-tition of that miracle in HOP No man acquainted with the trend of events in this nation dpubts for a moment that the Democratic party will declare for silver in 1900 and renominate Bryan But I will not be done without a struggle strug-gle The plutocrats and moneychangers moneychang-ers in the Democratic party are doing all they can to prevent it and silver papers especially in the west should hold up the hands of Bryan and encourage en-courage the masses in this fight against the bosses If silver papers in silver states play the coward and cry out in despair that It is useless longer to continue con-tinue the fight for silver what effect must such traitorous conduct have on the rank and file of the south and middle mid-dle west that are nqw preparing the preliminaries for another battle for the white metal They need the united voice of the people of the west bidding them hope and pledging them deathless death-less loyalty to the cause of man They should hear no wail of despair but ringing clear and true across our snow i peaks where sleep illimitable treasures of gold and silver from every city and hamlet of the west the struggling heroes there should catch the weird strains of the pibroch and the silver notes of the inspiring Marseillaise No juniper tree business at this stage of the fight i you please But there our neighbor sits and sings even as Trilby sang Ben Bolt while the political Svengali waves his fine Italian hand I |