The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-10
Peoples Party Points.


BY A MEMBER Or I'm UErcHun sILsEx cIUs
| Morros With 6rmnsss toward al; with
malice toward none.
/ Ten days to the county conven'
ton, sixty days to Nov. 9Th. Will
the primary, the peoples party fes'
tival, and the organizing of poo
Piles party club, the campaign, local
state and national, is set and Ketch
um is fairly in the political swim
The auspices are happy. Most
hopeful and cheering news comes
from all sides. The old party mar
at HALEY who, as late as a day Of
two ago, colnforted his democratic
republican friends with the assur
ance that the p. p. would not carry
a county in the United States, must
have been whistling to keep hii
courage up. It now looks very
much as if there are whole states
and large sections of other states
in which the old parties will not
carry a single county.
Even the New York Sun begins
to weaken in it's confidence of 9
solid south, and fears Cleveland
will not carry q southern state
against the populists, except, per
haps, Maryland and Kentucky. c
what coming down and growing
beautifully less is there, my coun
trymen!
November 9th will be an interest.
ing night for populists and an anx.
ious one for plutocrats, and the
bread and butter brigade to sit up
for election returns.
The writer of this department Of
the KEYSTONE set up and received
election returns in a memorable
election in Ohio in 1863, when his
township gave over 600 votes for
one candidate and but IS for his
opponent, and the rest of the state
went proportionally. The defeated
man was Valandigham!
Jay Gould & Co. may not get
quite such waterloo this year,
but the Valandigham handwriting
is on the wall for them nevertheless.
The people believe they are being
robbed and have decided to excom-
,nnnicafn the robbers
Lincoln foresaw and foretold the
robbery. And as Washington is
said to have sworn once. SO Lincoln
came near doing so. Here is the
account Of it:
Tie bill empowering the Secretary of
the Treasury to sell the surplus gold had
recently passed, and Mr. Chase was then
in New York giving his attention per-
sonally to the experiment. Governor
Curtin referred to this saying:
81 see by the quotation that Chase's
movement has already knocked gold
down several per cent"
This gave OCCASION for the strongest
expression ever heard fall from the lips
of Mr.. Lincoln. Knotting his face III the
intensity of his feeling, he said:
"Curtin, VIII, do you think of those
fellows in Wall street who are gambling
in gold at such time as thisl'
''They are a set of sharks," retu.ped
Curtin.
"For my part" continued the Presi-
dent, bringing his clenched hand down
on the table, Il wish every one of them
had his devilish head shot off.-Cdrpen-
ter's Sir Months IN the White House Nth
Mr.. Lincoln, page "a.
There is such thing as righteous
indignation, (that might be excused
for swearing upon rare occasions
and the people are waking up to the
Wall street sharks, and will use the
ballot box to shoot their heads off. |
What a confirmation that the
people are right in this fight, to find
that Lincoln was with them in an
ticipation! Lincoln the simple and |
great, the object-lesson and proof
Of the validity Of democracy.
Man cannot be said to have be-
come man-that is human, until he !
has irnbibed the spirit of true de-
mocracy, i. e., taken on the genuine
feeling of equality and brotherhood.
The citadel and feeder of selfish
ness is separation from ones kind.
Out of this grows all wars, hates
and misunderstanding. The spirit
If democracy, toward which the
human race is toiling, is "coming
a putting away Of indi-
,idual and class separation, which
Keeps up misunderstanding and
hatred. Emerson expressed the
secret of democracy, with its spirit
If brotherhood of the whole human
,amily, when he said: Let the two
greatest enemies get near enough
,ogether to know each other and
hey would fall into each others
arms.
So we must sweep away this mis-
,rable plutocracy of unjust wealth
md artificial lines of separation
hat curses both rich and poor, and
give the natural sympathies and
ikings chance to play and work
,ut the glorious harmony that hu-
nan nature is capable Of
Jay Gould is all right to go fish
ng with on Silver creek. If We did
lot know his name we would find