The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-23
The Denver ssNews'' Party.

The Denver ssNews'' Party.
There are thousands Of Republicans ii
Colorado who will not vote for Harrison
and thousands of Democrats who will no
vote for Cleveland. Yet, driven from thei
own parties By the nominees wearing til,
yoke Of Wall street. they will be disin
clined to vote for the nominee of thu
Omaha convention, who, though sound OF
silver, will represent 50 many Issues tina
their judgment cannot assent to them
Let the Democrats in State Convention. !,
the action It Chicago shall force it. nom
mate electors pledged to vote sRains,
Cleveland and for such free coinage Dem
ocrata ~ Senator Morgan Of Alabama and
Congressman Bland Of Missouri. Az the
State convention is held after the Natioua
Convention, it is in the power Of the for
mer conventions to chose only those cleo
tors who will vote for = silver man, not.
withdrawing who may lie nominated by
the National Convention
This dernier resort for the free coinaQ,
men il worthy calm and earnest consider.
alton. That this suggestion will be passed
over lightly, the gravity of the silver sit.
uation forbids. That the tens Of thous.
ands who signed the pledge Of the silver
league for some such practical plan, by
which they may constitutionallY and con.
sistentiy exercise that suffrage effectively
IN cause 80 important, is demonstrated
by their acts. The movement, if under
taken, will demonstrate that Democrats
and Republicans are no longer hewers OF
wood and drawers of water for Wall street
plutocrats, who now almost entirely dom
mate one political party and have para
iyzed the free coinage majority in the
Rocky Mountain Nesos.
There are good suggestions in the
above. Nothing is more needed in
sensible politics than a new align
ment of parties. In the republican
party there are very many men who
have correct understanding of the
silver coinage proposition, who are,
like all other intelligent men, in
favor of reconciliation, while in
the democratic party are very many
who are opposed because Of their
dense ignorance on the subject.
These men vote, like the republican
silver men, throwing their votes
away on a party that has no SYM
pathy with their rights or necessi-
ties, nor respect for their judgment.
On the other hand the democratic
ignoramuses nullify by
their stupidity and bullheadedness
the free silver votes Of tl1eig pasti-
sans vho, understanding tie ques-
lion, you'd gladly adopt free cola
age. it ls tlerefosa evidaEs that
these silver adYcralea SIRE ont es
place III the old 10 ties and ara used
BY tie gold bugs as cat 's-paws 10 |
rake their chesgaats out af the FIRE
and that q nev party based ap0n
Tree coinage, ee'.sd rsgi4ss aud psi2ls
iagea 8efose the law Tor all classes,
.nd equal justice to all should at
ract to itself the patriotic and en-
ightened elements from all parties
md become the ruling power in the
country. But we are not sure the
plan outlined by the News is the
'est one that could be proposed.
70 win we must have the strength
# the labor element.of the country,
" which we mean the Alliance and
abor or third party organizations,
nd their platform, with the sub
reasury scheme eliminated, would
e really democratic and American
would seem the part Of wisdom
len to call general convention of
liver men, Alliance men and labor
len of all shades of differences of
pinion, with the pre-announced
understanding that all who partici-
ated in the convention would be
'pected to support its conclusions ,
Id platform, and that all would be
,pected to concede something to
e majority for the sake of success.
ne unreasonableness of denounc-
6 all who oppose our views as ]
'practicals, Missionaries, soreheads !
I'd malcontents does not belong to
e politics of this age. knowledge
spreading. Even the humblest
iler at the forge, in the oil, or at
Q coal mines, has ideas, which
e frequently sounder in point Of
atesmanship than the ideas of the
called cultured. These ideas he
able to back up with reasons and
guments, and they must be re-
ected if we are to have political
ganization held together by any
her than the adhesive power of
ibes. We must organize the indus
: and intelligence of the country
ainst the Shylocks and bribes-
'ers and their foreign allies. In
pport Of such an. organization /
aho's vote can be counted on with
and we think many other
ates as we'll, and they would pre-
even the sub-treasury folly to
ld-standard swindle.
The following pledge, taken by
9 Bradford Silver Club, is the