The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-08-27

Crook and Gum!
It is q Crook that will shepherd
the Idaho sheep, and . Gum that
will hit the congressional mark.
The state convention did its work
we'll, and put a ticket in the field
that is proof of the high character
of the new party in Idaho, as every.
where else.
Ketchum did nohly in the greet.
ing it gave the two principal can.
didates. The genuine enthusiasm
displayed, so characteristic of the
new party in all parts of the coun-
try, was heightened by the personal
and local interest everyone felt in
the visiting nominees. All were
proud that this portion of the state
had both honored and been hon
ored by the state convention in the
head of the ticket.
Now for organization! Enthusi-
asm is the steam; organization the
track to run upon to victory in
November Let the committeeman
Of each voting precinct in the state
proceed at once to start lists regis
tering every peoples party man,
including the names of all hitherto
undecided voters who may have
waited to see the ticket in black
and white. 1t took "six years of
intense work" to build up the re-
publican party to the point of ma
tional victory. If the present new
party goes into the White House in
four years there is much earnest
work to be done. If the republican
machine is placed hors de combat
this year, the democratic organiza-
ton will lie behind it waiting its
turn.
In the meantime equally with
he pressing necessity for organiza-
ion, will 60 the vital need of edu-
cation. The education of every
body, in the old parties and the
1ew, in the economic questions
lpon which the new era of Ameri-
IAN politics has started.
When we consider the crude state
he public mind is in, in regard to
some of the revolutionary econom-
cal propositions that are laid down
n the Omaha platform, all may
veil hope that even the peoples
,arty will not get into full power too
apidly for its own or the country's
,ood. Such new questions must
% through the probation of thor
,ugh discussion to prepare the pub
ic mind, and the conditions, to
make their adoption safe and not
harmful by too sudden application
o the old order of things. The |!
'spoils system" of civil service, for
Instance, will have to be revolution
zed into nQnpartisan system be-
ore it will be safe to nationalize
he railroads. telegraphs, etc.
We are undoubtedly to have great
nd comparatively rapid changes,
or this seems to be one of those
lowering periods in history which
ONE at intervals, after long sea-
ons of the silent qualification of
be seeds of ideas and principles
own by daring and hopeful spirits
ar in advance of their time.
Though no one can tell exactly,
r in all its details, just what is be-
ore us, as foreshadowed in the
resent unrest and upheaval of the
ca of humanity, it seems certain
hat we are preparing for some Sc
iOus innovations in the order of
uman society. No absolute revo-
ltion indeed, as that is contrary to
be step-by-step law of evolution,
r orderly Transformation, yet,
evertheless, a new order in many
hings. The great heart of human
", half-blindly, yet instinctively
nd irresistibly is bent upon achiev-
1g all the good that its noblest
have pointed the way to,
nd gave their lives as martyrs for.
he present movement means an
ther upheaval and onward step
oward the goal of a purer justice,
nd a truer brotherhood. "Love
'ould put new face on this weary
Id world in which we dwell as pa
ans and enemies too long," says
'alph Waldo Emerson, Americas
reatest understander and teacher.
md the present movement toward
etter government, and better poll
os, is America now taking Emer-
OH, her prophet, at his word. The
bove and the following, were spo-
en- by him just half a century ago,
nd are now to be made nearer true
han in his time:
The state must consider the poor man,
nd all voices must speak for him. Every
hid that is born must have . just chance
" his bread, Let the amelioratl0n in
ur laws of property proceed from the
opcession of the rich, and not from the
rasping of the poor. Let US understand
lat the equitable rule is, that no one
lopld take more than his share, be he
yer so rich. Let me feel that am to
e lover. am to see to it that the
orld is to be the better for me, and to
nd my reward in the act. 1t
'Ould warm the heart to see how fast |