The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-08-25

Political Notes.

Political Notes.
We need m Andrew Jackson IN
tho white house just about now. In
his day, whom engaged in var with
banks and money sharks, he said
.By tho eternal, No will see which
Il TO rule, tho money power or the
people," IF Jackson lived to-day
Be- would Be . "crsnk" and an can
archist" in the eyes Of the pluto.
Gratis. Independent.
Il Cleveland crazy or what is the
matter With him7 Hero 10 Z sen.
tence from his letter to Professor
Wilson:
"You know how much I deprs-
cate the incorporation in the pro
posed bill Of the income tax feat
ure."
Here 10 Z sentence from his mes
sage to Congress, December 4, 1893
"The committee has wisely in
cluded in their plan > small tax
upon incomes derived from certain
| corporate investments. These new
assessments are absolutely just and
easily Observation-Disclosures Tsle-
gram.
Tom Wstson's paper Il authority
for the statement that twenty-five
members of tho Mississippi legisla-
ture, who were elected ~ democrats,
have Joined tho peoples party. Tom
thinks if the populist funeral con-
tinues 1t this rate the cemetery
will soon be too small to hold u
all.-Times. Democrat.
Next to Artemus Wards eager
ness to save the country even if
duty called for tho sacrifice Of every
one of his second cousins on the
field of battle, there has been no
more striking exhibition Of unset
fish generosity in the United States
than the spectacle of the Democrat
ic party heroically discharging it,
pecuniary obligations to the Sugar
Trust by levying tribute upon the
workingman's breakfast table. The
scene wildly illustrates the quaint
but handy old Democratic princi-
pie. When duty calls find q substi-
tute.-New York Tribune.
George Hinckley, Deputy Auditor
of Latah county who was arrested
while attending the Republican
State Convention, is . Republican.
The Statesman doesn't mention this
fact. That paper is 80 ready TO
hunt down Populists, and every
time it finds one against whom the
breath Of suspicion is breathed it is
used as text for long-drawn dis
sertation on the crookedness Of
Populism, and in nine cases out Of
ten the charges are baseless. But
when q Republican covers himself
all over with disgrace the Statesman
does not use the fact as . text for
the discussion of the rottenness of
Republicanism, and does not so
much as mention the fact that the
hayward indivual is Republican.
Wenever have. and do not now, con-
tend that party can be justly held
responsible for the acts of individ-
uals Of the party who may do wrong,
but do Say that If this rule is to be
applied to one party it ought to be
applied to the others as we'll. But
the Statesman doesn't do this. The
methods it employs to down the
Populist party are not the methods
of . fair, able and dignified journal.
A party is responsible for its acts
as = party-for tho legislation it
enacts or fails to enact, as we'll %
for the principles it advocates or
opposes. Hinckley was arrested on
a charge Of forgery to the amount
of $4,000. It is said he forged
$1,000 on individual paper and &c.
600 on the county by filing out
warrants for any sum that struck
his fancy. 1.-THE Statesman would
treat the Republican party exactly
IS it does tho Populist, it would
come out and say emphatically, and
in big head lines, that the Republic
can party is an organized band Of
thieves.-Idaho World.
The Democratic State Tishsk