The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-06-30
REPUBLICAN INCONSISTENCY.

The courageous expression of his
own convictions has lead number
of republicans in this territory to
accuse the Hon. John NJ. Burke Of
disloyalty to the democratic party.
Unwilling to concede that anything
good is democratic or that anything
bad is republican, they refer with
apparent pride to similar princi-
Piles avowed in their own national
platform and seem to- consider
them, therefore, Indigenous to re-
publican soil. What Mr.. Burke
has proposed is purely democratic
in principle and it does not follow
that any attempt of the republican
party to corral the Pacific states
by such declarations can destroy
the right or power of the democrats
to adopt them for their real signifi-
canoe to the country's welfare. The
democrats of this territory, for in
stance, are solid upon Mr.. Burke's
proposition regarding the federal
offices, and we find a similar plank
in the republican platform which
reads, "all officers should be Sc
lected from the bona fde residents
and citizens of the territory wherein
they are to serve" Like Gov. Bill
Bum, for example, and the ''co-
logne-scented Schuyler Crosby" in
Montana, and an army Of other re-
publican appointees to high office
in the territories.
Mr.. Burke will also endeavor to
introduce planks in our democratic
platform against the reduction of
tariff on lead and against the de-
monetizing Of silver. The natio1fa4
republican platform ostensibly COW
ers this ground, but it is utterly
inconsistent with the record Of Ben.
Harrison, on these issues, and with
the party's past silver policy. Silver
was demonetized by republican
congress, to be repressed by every
republican administration since.
There are some other planks, OF
equal consistency, in the republi-
can platform which the people of
the great west will read with a
smile. The New York Sun quotes
and comments as follows:
"We declare our hostility to the intro
duction into this country Of foreign con
tract labor and of Chinese labor, alien to
our civilization and our Constitution"
Hostile just before an election, when the
electoral votes of the Pacific States are
wanted. When the Chinese Restriction
bill was in the Forty seventh Con ress
more republicans in the House voted
against it than for it. Nearly two-thirds
of all the republican representatives either
voted against the bill or lodged. In the
Senate only one republican senator not
from the Pacific coast voted to restrict
Chinese immigration. Every vote against
the bill was republican vote. Fourteen
republican senators lodged. Fifteen vo
ted No hostility to the introduction Of
Chinese labor" and among these fifteen
were Allison, Harrison, Hawley, ingalls,
and John Sherman.
we piedSe the republican party &c
stamp out the wickedness of polygamy'
in Utah. So did the republican platform
OF 1S76-twelye years ago. The poIyga.
nous Mormon 10 q safe target to shy
stuffed bricks at.
But the grand bounce, 50 to speak, O
the republican platform Of 1883 Is con
tanned in the traditional paragraph con
corning a free ballot and an honest count
The party which in 1875 deprived TIN
white voters Of Louisiana and Florida o
their right Of suffrage, and which in 1877
counted in and seated the unelected can
didates, ''reafBrms the answering devo
ton to the supreme and sovereign rgh
of every lawful citizen, white or black. t
cast one free ballot in public election
and to have that ballot duly counted'
The same old face grins bchinds tb
eane old mask.