The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-16
Vote eolidly for Silver.

Vote eolidly for Silver. A
The silver Club at Ketchum il
now fully organized and includes
in ito list Of membership nearly the
entire voting population Of the pre-
cinct. It's purpose is to instruct its
members in the reasons why party
affiliations should be abandoned
until the free and unlimited coinage
of silver has been attained, and to
endeavor to secure for the presiden-
tial candidate, who shall be pledged
to silver as nearly a. possible,
the solid vote of this section. This
is necessary, and it is also necessary
that the friends of silver every
where act together to procure q
similar action in each voting pre-
cinct in the country, if we would
have free coinage. The action of
the present Congress makes it plain
that without thorough and COM
pact organization and non-partisan
action at the polls all hopes Of free
coinage are chimerical. During the
last two years % state democratic
conventions declared emphatically
for the free coinage of silver, show
ing that a majority of the party is
favorable to the measure. Never
theless q democratic Congress, ig-
noring these positive instructions
from their constituents, led by Tom
Reed, and influenced by Wall
Streets gold, have brazenly refused
to pass bill introduced by one of
the strongest friends of silver, the
pr DIVISIONS of which were in entire
accord with the sentiments of every
intelligent silver advocate in the
country. A similar act on the part
of the 51st Congress, coupled with
their positive declarations and num-
berless sneers, demonstrate the fact
that both the republican and dem
ocratic parties are our enemies. It
also demonstrates the fact that so
long as we continue to vote for them
or either of them, we shall vote
against our own interests, against
our rights and against justice.
Of course the state platforms of
both of these parties in this state
will declare emphatically for the
free coinage of silver; but these
declarations will find no response
in the national platforms, and it
will be one of the duties Of silver
clubs to impress upon their MEM
bers the fraudulent nature of the
pretenses of those state platforms,
and to show to them that presiden-
tial and congressional action is
governed by the declarations of the
national and not of state platforms !;
and that although we may fail at
the November election, We shall not
have thrown our votes away" and
that if our organizations are main
tanned and our purpose firmly adj
hered to, we shall eventually sue
coed. For low prices, idle laborers,
unworked mines and smelters un-
used and fast falling into decay, will
still stand monumental reasons for
keeping up our organizations and
continuing our warfare, and will be,
besides, recruiting agencies for our
ranks Of ever increasing efficiency.
Our enemies are organized. They
have the wealth of the nation and
its government in their hands. To
beat them from their position, to
destroy their power and to wrest
the government from their grasp,
ia work that can only be accom-
plished by firmly organized effort,
and then only through the intelli-
gent use of the ballot. But it can
be done; for while we have the bal
lot We can do anything by voting
solidly against the party or parties
whose principles, or policy, or ras-
cality, or all combined, are destruc-
tive of our welfare. We know that
silver coinage can make US prosper
GUS as nothing else can; we have
the numbers to secure it by voting
together regardless of party. With
out silver coinage we know we can
not prosper-we know that labor
cannot prosper-we know that only
Insurers, spectators and peculators
can prosper-and that the system
was devised and established by and
for them, for their benefit and our
injury. By disdaining party fealty,
by scorning party bosses, and vot-
ing as one man, for the party which
stands squarely upon free coinage
national platform, We know that we
can carry our point, for. numbers
are everything at the ballot box.
Shall We use our intellects with our
ballots and establish justice in our
own behalf or continue TO vote
blindly for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of
our oppressors? Voters, answer at
the polls.
A 8ura Cure for Piles.