The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-13
KEFUU111OXN LI]E377l1EQVTEII.
The q. Q. P. Campaign Documen,
Shown Up.

"A 0MOW0 UQs
|, A Batch Of Base Ialsehoods lton b
i ginning 70 Ind.
The following statement from
!, II. e. Taubeneck, chairman Of til,
Peoples party national committee
!, discloses new perfidy on the par,
of the Republican party in thi,
state, and viii be of interest to th.
voters of Idaho:
| A copy of the Republican campaign
document circulated in your state called
"Populist; Who He Is, What He Il and
Where He Came From" reached bead
: quarters yesterday. l doubt if another
pamphlet Of the same size has ever been
published containing 80 many falsehoodi
and garbled statements as this one.
On the first page l find the following
1.-THE Populist party is q tropical sprout
i, having received its seeding and culture in
the sunny south. It was conceived in the
brain of the rebel General Pope, who was
: one of the officers in charge of the Libby
prison, and its spirit, the ruling genius Of
the organization, is that of the southern
confederacy."
/ This language is as false as anything
ever conceived.
First-The south was not represented
at the conference where the Peoples
party was first organized-only one or
two delegates from Texas, and l think
one or two from Tennessee and Kentucky.
/ Second-There has never been a man
by the name of General Pope in the Peo-
pies party that know of. President L..
L. Polk of the farmers Alliance joined
the Populist party about one year after it
was organized, but he did not help to or
ganize it. He wrote letter which was
read at the conference in Cincinnati,
where it was first organized, opposing the
Peoples party.
On pages four and five this pamphlet
makes vicious attack on the Peoples
party as not being in favor of the free
coinage Of silver at the ratio of is to /.
To refute this charge it is only necessary
to refer to the Populist record in congress,
where the Peoples party has always cast
100 per cent. of its strength for free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to /
without waiting for the consent of Eng
land or any other nation. In fact, if it
were not for the Peoples party to day
the Democrats of the south would never
raise their voice in favor of silver at any
ratio. The same is true of the Republi-
can party of the northwest. The fear of
being defeated by the Peoples party is
what causes them to keep up the fight for
silver in these two sections.
Let Idaho and other silver producing
states turn down the Peoples party in
the west, and there will not be vestige
of silver agitation in the south.
On page the following appears:
''But in addition to the above and foreqo-
ing the following by K. E. Carl, the general
secretary of the Peoples party, makes as
surance doubly sure as to the real position
of the Peoples party on the silver ques-
ton"
1t is only necessary to call attention to |
this paragraph by saying that X. E. Carl
is not, and has never been secretary of
the Peoples party. He is unknown to
me and PopuIists here IN this city; who
he is, and where he comes from, can not
say.
j. II. Turner of Georgia is the general
secretary OF the national COMMITTEES of the
Peoples party, and previous to the Oma-
ha convention Mr.. Robert Shilling of
Milwaukee, Wis.,, held that position. 1t
Is not fair to quote some unknown person,
and then bolster him up to be secretary
OF the national COMMITTEE Whether Mr..
Carl or Miss Cozens used the language at.
trlbuted to them or not, or if they hold
any official position In the Peoples party,
or whether they have expressed their pri-
vate views, can not say.
On pages 8 and Z we also read:
by these fruits we shall know them :"
OF course referring to the Peoples party.
/ am perfectly willing for the Peoples party
to be judged by this quotation from the
scripture but will not consent to have
some unknown person brought to the front.
and have the party held responsible for
what be may say. Let the record of our
senator's and representatives in congress.
as well as the leading papers and writer's in
the party be accepted as the aspirations of
our party. But suppose we turn this
scripture quotation on the Republicans and
Democrats. by their fruits ye shall know
them?"
In 1873 the Republicans demonetized
silver; in 1898, they, according to Sena-
tor Jones, furnish a majority of those
Who favored unconditional repeal, both
in numerical strength and intellectual
force. It the Republican party rs we'll
- the Democratic party, should be
Judged by their fruits they would have
been condemned long ago. Think of the
trusts. monopolies and combines which
have been fostered by the Republican
and Democratic administrations.
This quotation is sad , if not the saddest
one In the scripture for Republicans to
refer to. Whoever wrote this paragraph
did not think of the decentralization of
silver.
On page 10 We find 4 vicious attack
made on the Populist bills, whether in
PRODUCED ~ request or not, distortino
hem, and making it appear that if they
should become law thet it would call for
~ 7oprfatiJn of thirty five billion
dollars. In answer to this attack, en-
close you copy of the National Watch
man Of September 2eth, containing an ar
!icle BY secretary Turner in reply to
Wheeler and Pigott's speeches, also a
:opy Of three bills introduced BY Repub-
icans and Democrats calling for an ap-
Of more than <lO0, 000, OO0,-
700.
The pamphlet also makes an attack on
,ur people for voting for the Wilson bill.
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