The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-30

times, There is a veritable land
slide ont Of the old parties. New
life has come
What Lincoln loved and named
1.-THE plain people," are profoundly
! dissatisfied. Nothing but politi-
cal and social reorganization will
meet their demand,
Life, the mysterious all-pervading
principle, builds organizations, veg
table, animal, or political, and in
turn deserts them and they die ;
while she serenely goes on her way
necessarily building anew.
Political parties, like all other
organizations, have their laws of
growth and decay. In politics the
average man attempts to stay for
ever under given political form or
party, and in time finds himself at
tached to a corpse labeled with a
name. His blindness to the law of
change in nature has betrayed him.
He is obliged to shake himself to-
gether and start anew.
That we are at such q period in
American politics all the signs 60
to prove. We are to have new
deal. Abraham Lincoln's "plain
people" have indicted the republi-
can and democratic parties.
The old parties are now to show
cause why the people shall not dig
their grave and bury them together,
for their sins and shortcomings.
When the people turned to the
parties that should be their guardi-
ans and mouthpieces what did they
find? Subserviency to the insen-
safe money power? Yes, but some
thing worse than that /: blindness to
the actual peril of the country!
Witness the utterances of their
party platforms and notice what
they don't say! Study the boast
of the republican leaders at Mime
apolis that their party had nothing
to apologize for, and nothing to
regret! Follow President Harri-
sons accomplished and amiable
speeches wherever he goes, and see
how complacently he assumes that
all is very we'll. Take notice of
Cleveland's blindness to anything
but the tariff question.
Where the sap runs is just under
the bark at the circumference of the
tree. The past growths in the heart
of the tree give strength to the
stem, but the new part at the sur
face is where The growth is.
In the life of nation its safety
lies in following the newest thought
and instinct of it's people. IT'S
there the sap runs and the growth
takes place. What are the facts of
new social and political thought
among us to-day? Do either of the
old political parties represent the
highest thought of the American
people to-day? Do they reflect any
high thought or new thought at all
In short, are they any longer organs
of the people?
Turn to the party press and see
if any insight into the situation
can be found there
Here are the plain American peo-
pie, with their deathless inherited
instinct of freedom, aspiring as
never before to a closer human
brotherhood of mankind, and in
stead are threatened by this class
legislation with losing what broth
erhood they themselves have had,
and they are told that the republi-
cans have nothing to apologize for,
and the democrats know nothing
but the tariff.
In all seriousness, fellow Ameri-
cans, such blindness brings the
and cure. It is arousing
US to action, and movement is life.
We are to go forward to better things
than the past has ever shown. Moth
ing less than the adjustment of
unjust poverty and robber wealth
lies at the other end of the present
discomfort. Instead of being the
land of unjust wealth, plutocracy
is to receive its death blow here for
all mankind. A new and ulster
order is to be founded and we
have the privilege of being in the
skirmish line of the battle, whose
motto is; mo one is accomplished
so long as any are incomplete; the
of one cannot consist
with the misery of any other"
jerry Simpson, third party mem
Der of congress from Kansas, has
been recently interviewed on the !
prospects of the peoples party in
the present campaign. Among other
things, he is quoted as saying:
The politician who says that
General Weaver is not a strong
candidate does not know what he
IS talking about. He is the best |
we could have named. |
lie is closer to the hearts of the
bird party people than any man
n the country. Two-thirds of the
convention wanted him. He is
popular in the North, and the fact
hat the Southern delegates almost
% a man, supported him, furnishes
convincing proof Of his popularity