The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-27

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Reader, it is one thing TO - d
With in ! manly way--ia - 1onos-
able and upright manner-snd It
10 another to - Missed With BY the
hating expedit6ts Of an unsound
principle-by tia juggling methods
Of deception. You know that.
You also know that the willful
omission Of single thread essen-
tial to tho texture, or single truth
essential to an understanding Of
the fact, is q deception.
Deception is falsehood.
A falsehood, in palmer language,
is a lie.
A man who lies is not q ct man
to entrust with power and respon-
sibility.
To tell half a story truthfully is
often to tell whole story falsely.
And for man to say, for exam.
pie, that he is q candidate for q
certain Office without telling you
where be lives and what are his
bolitics, is ptima facie evidence
| that you might not vote for him i
he did.
Unless the object is to deceive
you NO candidate will hesitate to
supply you with ell the informa
ton usually givenaby nominees TO-
office.
Let US illustrate the case b, re-
producing several samples RI WORK
in this line, such az are cifculailDe
around among the people OF Anu
ras county at this p<ftlcuiar 'l"e'
Fnr.fnstahce
"Paul P. Baxter, Ketchum, Idaho,
nominee Treasurer Alturas County,
Peoples Party Ticket"
The foregoing is an ample and an
honorable presentation Of the can
didate. He is neither afraid to d.
vulge his place of residence nor
ashamed of his politics.
Here is another style:
"Ervin w. Johnson, candidate
for Representative"
Simply this and nothing more.
It is the form generally adopted by
the demo-republican fusion party
of Alturas county. The candidate
may hail from Kalamazoo or the
South Sea islands. He may be a
potentate or Hottentot, a pluto
crat, or a democrat, or a mus-krat,
from all the information we are
enabled to CLEAN through the most
diligent and persistent research on
that card. We know that he is a
candidate, but nothing more. From
whence, for whom, by what author
ity remains obscured in the mists
of eternal oblivion. 1t is a pretty
safe presumption, however, that he
halls from HALEY. and it may be
regarded that, as all the candidates
but one nominated on that particu-
lar ticket hail from that particular
place, it is unnecessary to refer to
that fact in each individual case.
AS to the political complexion of
any candidate so announced there
must, Of necessity be considerable
speculation among the voters of
the outlying precincts until the
subject appears in person to impart
the desired information. And then,
if the inquirer is a democrat, for
instance, it can truthfully be said
that the candidate is on the demo-
cratic ticket. That ought to secure
his vote. If he be a Republican, it
can with equal veracity be stated
that he is on the republican ticket,
and there you are-two fish on one
hook No doubt that the man run.
ming for Office wishes that Farmer
Jones, who 10 the democrat, and
Farmer Brown, who is the republic
ian, lived at opposite extremes Of
he county, for If they should hap
pen to compare notes h-l would
pop.
We don't refer 10 our esteemed
riend Johnson in this matter With
my desire to be partial or personal,
'ut simply refer to Lis card az q
ample of the artifice employed by
he fusionists of Alturas county in
he present campaign.
Political jugglery of this sort is
to the spirit of American
Institutions, and We trust that the
'oters Of Alturas county will give
a fitting rebuko at the polls-for