The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-10-01
Peoples Party Points.
BY MEMBER orrHr xrrcHv. sllvrr CLUE.


MORO: With firmness toward all; with
malice toward none.
To fuse or not to fuse
TIC be subject to "the outrageous
filings of fortunes" for instance, the
gibes of the peoples party; the
aualms of ones own doubts; the
certain alienation of voters in ones
own party, "gave pause" to the
old-party county combine this week,
and decided the democratic tail of
it not. to be catspaw, in the desperate
and hopeless game of the republi-
can head of it, to rake their chest
nut out of the populist fire.
Let the populists take note of
it! When their time comes TO step
down and out, let them 60 down
with flags set. Do not fuse is the
lesson to all parties. IT'S bad pol
icy if nothing more, as in this sad
case! Parties are for a purpose !;
let them do their work, keep issues
distinct and stand by their colors
Let the peoples party not exult
should they 60 into power any
where, in county, state or nation.
In power they will have their troub-
les, make mistakes and undergo
Christening Otis to be hoped } hui
Mutations. Rome was not built in
a day, and the people party is
human.
Nevertheless it is marching on,
and in spite of the Salt Lake Trib-
bune's earnest hopes and fervent
prayers to the contrary, it is doubt
full if any serious reaction" has or
will set in against it anywhere, be-
tween now and election day.
But, on the contrary, it is only
inside the old party papers that
little news is seen of it, and even
there It's noticeable that, in reports
of republican rallies" somehow
the orators have to pay their re-
spects to the new party, which the
same paper, on its editorial page,
has decided to be not seriously wor-
thy of the time and space it some
how is constrained to give to it
nearly every day, Notwithstanding
it's editors daily resolution to do it
up, and "have done with it" in his
latest editorial once for all.
Not that the cool populist ex-
poets, more than the republican
editor, that the new party will elect
it's president this year; but he be-
lieves that the peoples party has
principle that will bring success
sion of its presidents to the White
House, in time.
This is his hope and belief backed
by the deepest force in human af-
fairs, viz: an inexpungable instinct
of justice. The populist sees, amid
all his crankisms, that man is start
ed for democracy. and that, spite
of the declaration of independence,
he has not got there yet; that he
must and will get there and that
it is is the peoples party whose
line of march is nearest in the
middle of the road"
Individuals of the old parties tell
US that they, too, are working for
the people, but is it undeniably
true that their parties, as organiza-
tions, are unequivocally on the side
of the people against class legisla-
ton. privilege and monopoly?
AS reply to this fair question it
is interesting and significant to be
told that the republican nominee
for the vice-presidency, and editor
of the New York Tribune, White
law Reid, is the author of the fol-
lowing words:
1t is astonishing, yea, startling, the ex-
tent to which faith prevails in money
circles in New York, that we ought to
have king.
IT'S plain that we would be on
the way to king, if we were not in
the middle of the road toward a de-
mocracy!
The New York money men want
a king! How natural. Unjust
wealth gravitates towards kings.
Hence we have Wall street kings !;
railroad kings; oil kings; land
kings; coal and iron barons, etc.,
ETC., and the American royal family
continues to grow.
In the meantime, while our roy
atty has been growing, 1.-The party
of Abraham Lincoln"-alas, that
his name is still to be invoked by
them has been in possession Of
the political government most of
the time. Can they justly evade
the chief responsibility for the ZEN
thronement of monopoly" feared
and predicted by Abraham Lincoln,
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