Show I AN EXCITED NEIGHBOR The Wchcr Ida Signal seems to be excited I takes offense that The Tribune ventured a little advice to the docent Democrats of Idaho We beg to assure the Signal that we never once I thought Including it I declares that I the statement Is false that the Democrats Demo-crats of Idaho have repudiated their administration Is it not true that they I turned a faithful and brave Governor down Further on It becomes personal and calls The Tribune Ia Journalistic Judas Why Because we have said that the silver question has ceased to be an Issue In the West this year Well I we have 0 good deal of company The Journal New York says It has censed to be an Issue and that were Mr Bryan Bry-an elected and with him a Democratic House and Senate he could not force a free silver pioposltlon Into law lie himself did not mention silver In his acceptance speech More were the Signal Sig-nal to publish one of Its editorials of four years ago and try l to give It a present application It would be laughed to scorn The Signal asks where The Tribune with the same men and the same principle as four years ago involved stands today The Signal should go n little slow The reasons why silver restoration was demanded de-manded four years ago have ceased to exist The depression has psed away the men who were Idle then are all at work prices have advanced as high as they should and the currency of the I country has Increased much moro in volume than It could have increased had all the mints of the country been set In motion coming silver dollars I four years ago and had run day and night constantly since But that Is not all Four years ago Mr Bryan wa advocating a great principle and his l fight was manly and high from the start What is h6 doing this year He Is trying to incite a fear of Imperialism Impe-rialism which he knows is but a campaign cam-paign fraud and bogle Ho Is recommending that the flag be dishonored in the Philippines He Is declaring that he would If elected pursue a course there which would be a disgrace to tho United States and which could It be carried out would turn the islands over to the mercy of the cutthroats who for a year and a half have been engaged In the pleasant pastime of killing American soldiers His candidacy on the combined platforms plat-forms of Sioux Falls and Kansas City Is an open menace to the Integrity sovereignty and prerogatives of our courts Again on the same platforms his candidacy Is 0 direct menace to the finances of the country as in both there Is covert promise that en9ugh Irredeemable Irre-deemable paper money shall be Issued to meet the obligations and her the current expenses of the Government The same planks make clearthatwlth Mr Bryan silver Is of but secondary Importance at best Then when we turn from the candidate candi-date and platform to their supporters whom do we find There Is the anarchist anar-chist and murderer pardoner Altgeld There Is Boss Croker of New York with all the scalping tribe of Tammany Tam-many There Is a solid South that Is shrieking about the tyranny of a Government Gov-ernment that has not thC consent of the governed while at the same time It is working the worlcllg disfranchisement of all the whites and blacks of the South who do not vole the Democratic ticket and who by their acts I tcJcet are making ma-king the vote of one Southern man count for as much ac the votes of four Northern men in electing Congressmen Congress-men and Presidential electors There too arc the omcers who stood coolly by and saw women dragged from wcmen draSsed streetcars street-cars In St Louie denuded and whipped Under the same banner too are the dynamiters of Idaho and the Welser Signal Why should any decent American I Ameri-can like that newspaper Join an aggregation |