The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-11-23

oeratie Party.
Senator William n. Stewart, Cd
itor Of tho Silver knight, ia ! lead
ing editorial Of recent issue Of
that paper says:
The gold combination put Cleve-
land forward for the purpose Of
destroying or converting the Dem
ocratic party to the English gold
standard. They have accomplished
the destruction of the party Of JET
ferson and Jackson. hut they have
failed to convert the rank and file
Of the South and West to the gold
standard contraction and hard
times. The late election has dem
onstrated beyond the possibility Of
q doubt that the Democratic party
with a platform and candidate ac-
ceptable to the Northeast will cut no
figure in the Presidential campaign
of 1896. The Democratic leaders Of
the South who insist upon union
with the gold forces of the North
and East have been told in language
too plain for controversy that
union with the gold combination
means death to Democracy. The
Democratic masses of the West and
South will refuse in 1896, as they
have in 1895, to cooperate with the
advocates of the English gold stand
ard in the East. But the fact that
the silver leaders of the Democracy
are laboring to patch up union
between 1.-THE free coinage forces Of
the South and West and the gold
standard forces of the North and
East compels all silver men who
prefer principle to party to treat
the Democratic organization in the
West and the South as a part and
parcel of Cleveland's Wall-Street
Democracy. The people see, if the
silver leaders in the Democratic
party do not, that there is no hope
for relief in the Democratic party
so long as the free coinage advo-
Gates of that party affiliate with the
Cleveland goldites of the North and
East. First, because such utilization
will cause the overthrow of the De-
mocracy in the West and South by
an indignant people, who will not
submit to the rule of gold monop-
oily, and, second, by the absorption
of the Cleveland Democracy in the
North by the triumphant forces Of
gold monopoly under command of
their veteran leader, the Senator
from Ohio. Cleveland has killed the
Democratic party so dead that such
aspirants for Democratic favors as
Brice, Hill and German a few days
ago, are marching in the funeral
train of the death not only of their
hopes but also of the Democratic
party. One man alone, of all the
Democratic forces, hopes for resur-
rection of the party christened by
Jefferson and slaughtered by Cleve-
land, and that man is Grover Cleye-
land, of Buffalo. He is firm
believer in miracles.
His discovery by the Democratic
party and rescue from the oblivion
of a police court attorney in Buffalo
looks like a miracle. His election
as President in 1884 and 1892 no
American regards as less than mi
raculous. The fact that an obscure
man who has never been known to
suggest a measure of any kind cal
culated to benefit the American
people, could be twice elected Pres
ident, is more difficult to compre-
bend and will be more difficult for
posterity to believe than the story
Of Jonah taken in literal sense.
Cleveland has the field to himself.
There is no rival candidate to-day
in the Democratic party for the
nomination in 1896. The free sill
yer Democrat who will tell his free
silver followers that the only way
to secure free coinage is to vote for
Cleveland again, or somebody de-
signated by Cleveland's convention,
has kind of courage which en-
anates from despair and degree of
assurance which would make a
rhinocerous blush. If the free sill
yer democrats would cease their
efforts to get votes for Wall Street
and be as decided for free silver as
Cleveland Democracy is for the gold
standard, victory would be III sight.
If the leaders of free silver De-
mocracy would put their ears a lit
tie nearer to the ground they would
hear the rumbling Of discomfort
which will eliminate in 1896 in
their overthrow if they do not cease
their attempts to make the people
vote against their own interest and
the most sacred rights Of freemen.
Whatever the Democratic leaders
may do, one thing is certain that
in the near future the liherty-loving
people of the South and West and
the blind worshipers OF the gold
standard in the East who toll to
rivet the chains of slavery upon
their own limbs, will ultimately
unite and make a new Declaration
of independence. That declaration
will again proclaim the right Of
American citizens to "life, liberty