The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-10-08
TY, IDAHO, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 5, 1892.

of the senate chamber with Dan
Voorhees, or Ingals the day after he
is sworn in as senator of the United
States. By the way, Dad, | believe
that one speech from Nc. on the
tariff question or on the recent diff
ficulty in Behring sea, will drive
old Edmonds to the bottle.
But to lay joking aside, what is
the trouble with Nc? / really be-
lieve that picture in the West Shore
has been the ruination Of him. 1t
has been taken for all the great men
from Bismarck to Bob Ingersoll.
Nc. is really good fellow, but he
has the Importance of an illustri-
Gus statesman, confused with the
Importance of an illustrated states
man. The former is important
to the people, the latter to the
publisher. The one is the work of
life, the other is the work of an
artist. Both come high, but states
man must be one or the other. /
have never blamed Nc. Why should
he not be illustrated? Does he want
to 90 to the senate and the senators
not know him when he enters the
capitol? God forbid. By his pic
ture shall they know him.
1t is impossible for me to be in
Moscow for a day or at all, before
the primaries. | am trying the
most important mining case on the
calendar. We commenced one week
ago Wednesday, but we will require
all of next week to finish the trial
OF the cause. You see it is utterly
impossible to leave. Anyway why
should 1 make speech? | do not
believe that it is necessary to run all
over the country making speeches
in reply to the rantings of every
demagogue, driven crazy by an am
bition which he has neither the
learning, character, nor dignity to
sustain; nor yet is any one com.
munity gullable enough to pay any
attention to the twaddle you wrote
me about the university and its
franchise.
No man ever accomplished any.
thing yet, that he did not have bark
ing at his heels, jealous, vicious
creatures, who without the foresight
to see an opportunity as it sails by
or the skill to land it if they do SEE
it, stand back and criticise what
others do and find fault with the
manner of doing it. You cannot
stop to make speeches in reply t.
such people. The world is too busy
and when you once drop from th'
column, it is hard to catch up. His
prattle amounts to nothing. The
world heeds neither the singer mol
the song.
Mr.. Mcconnell desires to go tc
the senate. He proposes to go there
by walking over the political bodies
of nearly all the prominent men o
the state. He not only proposes
to go there himself, but to say who
shall go with him. 1t is simply
absurd.
He is without an unselfsh frienc
in the state. Not soul gives breath
to his name politically, withou
hope of reward or plunder in some
form. No man loves him for wha
he is, because selfshness, egotisn
and vulgarity do not attract friend
ships, although the invitation tt
take drink may be accepted
with alacrity.,. There is no more
probability OF his being one Of tht
first senators from Idaho, than 0
his being the next president, ano
there is as much probability of TIT
ex-president of the Independen
Order Of Changers becoming pres
ident Of the United States as there
is Of his becoming a United States
senator on the strength of trash,
puffs scattered broadcast at 10 cents
a line, or inserting circus picture
of himself in the periodicals of th'
day.
The state smiles at his preten
sions, smiles at his colossal egotism
and laughs outright at his candj
dacy. lie does not possess ON
single attribute of the ideal senator
and never will be one.
AS to the university. it is in tn
hands of it's friends. It was LOCATED
ut Moscow without the assistance
of Mr.. Mcconnell, and~awill grow
into great and beneficial institu
ton, regardless Of his frowns or hi
favors. It's enormous grant will b.
utilized as by law directed. Every
branch of learning is connected
with it, and the plans of its advance
ment are we'll made, and reasonabl,
sure of execution. They will not
however, be made public either t
the end that they may be know
and assailed or traded off in vail
attempt to reach the senate.
/ regret the bitterness manifested
this early in the campaign. It wa
not Of my seeking. Mr.. McCon
nell, or I, or you-any of us amour
to but little as individuals-as mem
bers Of our great party organlza
ton, we can each be of some SCI
vice to our new state. My loyalt..
lis stronger than my personal like