The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-08-06
Peoples Party Points.
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Peoples Party Points.
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J Aosro: With 6rmness toward NJ; witl
malice toward none.
i Good news come from all along
along the line.
! On = postal card received from
the editor of the Denver Road, b,
says "Gen. Weaver made thous
ands Of votes here y
It il 4 landslide; and the sooner
Senator Teller and the other silver
republicans realize it the better fol
them; or, like Senator Ingalls, two
| years ago, they will be suddenly
awakened this fall from theil
:'iridescent DREAM" and find them.
selves outside the political fence.
The peoples party press grows
phendmenally. Here is the latest
report
"The Greeley Tribune has de-
serted the republican party and run
up peoples party banner. Colo
RADIO is safe populist state. This
new recruit makes is old party pa.
pers Of Colorado which have joined
the new party within two months
Other states are also perfecting the
agencies of news gathering. Kansas
is now supporting 157 peoples par
ty papers, Nebraska 1O3, Texas 81,
South Dakota "a, Missouri 68, Iowa
80 and so on through an encourag-
ingly long list"
Here is some southern people g
party news. Under the heading,
"The Populist Boom is Distinctly
Heard at Washington" the New
Nation reports what one of the
editors of the Pittsburg Dispatch
heard at the national capital that
nearly took his republican breath
away:
ut is a remarkable fact" he
writes to his paper, that the peo-
pies party is attracting more inter
est than either of the old parties
from the experienced politicians.
During the last few days l have
talked with many members of the
peoples party. and other southern
and western citizens not afliliating
with it, and it is apparent from the
information gained, that the work
that is being done is something
never before attempted by an indie
pendent party in this country; and
that the movement is more formid-
able by far than would appear from
the reports in the press, which is
not in sympathy with it, and which
does what it can to suppress the
truth. For instance, R. NJ. Smith.
a former New York man, but now
prominent lawyer in Florida, tells
me that he has had professional
work to do throughout Florida and
Georgia in the last few weeks, and
has found the movement Of the
peoples party to be carrying every
thing before it. He tells me that
he has seen the most prominent
citizens from every part of the
South, and that i'll private and nom
partisan conversation they all agree
that the peoples party is likely
to carry North Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and
several other southern states, in re-
gard to which the information is not
at this time so we'll defined. With
out going into long and dry details
of the work of the peoples party
campaign, it will be seen that it is
earnest and formidable. While it
may not accomplish any victory
this year, when party lines are
drawn tightly on account of its be-
ing q year of the national elections,
even the most rigid adherents of
the old parties admit that at the
next congressional elections the
peoples party stands a good show
to elect sufficient number of MEM
bers to hold the balance of power
and block all legislation if their Pc
culiar principles are not subscribed
to and embodied in law"
What a prophecy Of the present
political situation is the following
passage from Prof. Bryce's great
work, "The American Common
wealth." published in 1888. It
plainly anticipates the coming, and
the necessity, of the third party
now taking the field to fill the void
made by the old parties abandon
ing political principles, and becom-
ing simply hungry NAV, crying
office, office" quote the passage
from Bryce:
In the presidential election of
1875 the war question and negro
question had become dead issues,
for it was plain that q large and
increasing number of voters were
no longer, despite the appeals Of
the republican leaders, seriously
concerned about them.
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