The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-06-09

Iepulim al 1f1nstallinn
Ep1roR Kersron..: A fan syenr
ings ago / hid the pleasure nf liste1-
ing to 40 able address d HALEY ~
the Hon. ]. w. Huston, at the.
supreme bench, on the subject Of
bimstallism and the National BIZ
metallic League. / Was almost
moved to tears for tho "nonparti-
san".sspublioans and democrats Of
this state and nation Who belong
TO tho said league and whose ballots
continue, contrary to the alleged
purpose Of the league, to perpetu-
ate tho existence Of political parties
which are diametrically opposed 70
the very principles it Is founded
upon; whose ballots two years ago
betrayed the very principles for
which many of NJ then tried the
experiment Of joining it, and whose
ballots, We have every reason from
past experience to believe, will con-
tinue to endorse that very corrup-
ton, that very misrule, that very in
human political conduct and abuse
of power which has characterized
the two old parties for the past
thirty years, and which the Judge,
from q ''nonpartisan" standpoint
denounced with populistic ferocity.
He recounted all the pernicioue
financial legislation which the said
parties have accomplished since
the civil war and bequeathed to the
American people; he referred to
such eminent and honorable"
American statesmen az John Sher-
man and Grover Cleveland, and
other republican and democrat
leaders and financiers in anything
but complimentary terms; he re-
buked men for their timorousness
and lack of faith in Americas abil-
ity to run American finances he
dumped the tariff overheard, struck
a blow at trusts and monopolies
that have sprung up under old party
regime, and gave: the railroads q
parting prod. In short he con-
demned the general financial and
industrial policy of the two old
parties and enjoined the people to
assert themselves against the aristo-
cratic tendencies of the republic
and to exercise their prerogatives
of self-government and self-pro-
lection before it is eternally too
late, and if he had wound up by en-
joining them to join the peoples
party in its crusade against the
manifold political evils to which
the nation has fallen heir, he would
have been entirely consistent. But
no. This was not on the bills, ana
the Hon. Judge also dumped the
peoples party into the bottomless
pit to which be had consigned Sher-
man, and Cleveland and the parties
which have followed them into
eternal submission to the golden
scepter of fraud, avarice and op-
preston.
The National Bimetallic League
was instituted two years ago upon
principles which seemed to the great
majority of genuine bimetallists
most worthy of support and con-
sideration. In Alturas county it's
purpose was hailed with almost
unanimous appreciation and its roll
contained tho signatures of nearly
every citizen, regardless of party af-
filiations. We all know what con-
stituted the pledges we took at that
time and are glad to come before
the world to-day for review 40 to
our subsequent political conduct.
We are glad to say that Alturas
county was consistent; that it kept
it's faith and supported for public
Office only that party which was
and is plainly and unequivocally a
free coinage party at the present
legal ratio. It is not the fault of
those who we're consistent that 9TH
ers were inconsistent. And the
people of Alturas county manifest.
ed at the meeting in HALEY last
Saturday night that they have, as a
whole, no desire or inclination to
60 hobnobbing with men who were
once false to their declarations.
1t is asserted by its promoters in
this state that the National Bime-
tallic League is absolutely nonpart-
isan; that it recognizes the issue
of free coinage (mark that it does
not mention the ratio) as the para
mount issue, and lays all other is
sues aside. In the face of the fact
that America has given birth to .
bounding political organization
founded upon the very principles
which, from the Judges own adj
mission, have been degraded and