The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-10-08
WILL MAKE IT HOT FOR THEN

WILL MAKE IT HOT FOR THEN
Cenersasman Lists says Dsnasersas Win
Fight N Aggressive Campaign.
Other issues are being put forward
in the Democratic platforms, says =
Washington special TO the St. Louie
Republic, but the principal ones
which their orators will discuss dur
ing the campaign will be Algerian
and the Presidents army appoint
ments.
"We have the Republicans on the de-
fsnsive," said Representative Lentz o.
Ohio At Democratic congressional head
quarters to-day and We propose to kesF
them there until the polls close on th'
night of the election. We will give them
all the credit for their Republican war,
which some of their leaders insisted that
the war with Spain was to be. They can
have all the honor they can get ont o.
the appointments BY the President o
men utterly unable to take care Of them
selves to places In which they were
charged with the care of soldiers.
'In my speeches I will tell of appoint
ments like that of young man who
swore on the witness stand that he could
not earn $50 . month, and, therefore
could not he expected to provide for bis
two babies, who got into row in beel
garden in San Francisco, who was prac.
tically kicked out of club in Honolulu
because be had ipsulted Il gentleman'a
wife, and who was sent home from Manila
to be dismissed from the army. Yet such
a man as that was appointed to take care
Of other men,"
Mr.. Lentz referred to young Blaine.
1t was suggested to MIR. Lentz that moi
few of the incompetent staff officers in
the army were appointed on Democratic
recommendations and some of them were
sons of famous Democratic fathers.
"That makes no difference, he replied
I'VE pay our President $4,000 to have
backbone. We give him 100000 fol
four years. service In the White House, %
that he can be independent of everybody
and of every wrong influence and be
ought not to make such appointments
Mr.. Lentz had not read of the defea,
of the Bryan people in the Connecticut
Democratic convention yesterday, but
when told Of it he declared that it did
not amount to anything.
I'VE people west of the Allegheny
Mountains" said he. 'ars going to nom
mate the Democratic candidate for the
Presidency. We will nominate Mr.
Bryan ON the Chicago platform and We
will elect him by the votes west of the
Allegheny Mountains. The East will
not be consulted about it ut all. Then
after the election if the Eastern States
want to come into the union We will con
slider the question"
Mr. Lentz insists that free coinage and
the Chicago platform are to be the basis
of the Democratic fight in Ohio and the
Western States this fall, but it is very
clear that his present disposition is t.
make them subordinate in his own cam
paign and bring forward the war issue
Mr.. Lentz said that favoritism in
awarding the contracts for supplies viii
be charged. 1t will be declared that con-
tracts were awarded to persons who con
tributed large sums to the Mckinley
campaign fund.in 1895.
The Democratic campaign textbook
was issued by the Congressional Commit
tee to day. 1t contains no reference tf
the War Department scandals, but ii
largely taken up with discussion of thu
old issues, bimctallism, the income tai
and the tariff.
The Democratic party il placed or
record a. an advocate of liberal, but jus
pensions; the Republican record on the
Cuban question in the early stage is crit
icised; the decline of the merchan
marine 10 attributed to Republican legis
lation, and the war revenue law 10 char
acterized rs unnecessary and burden OF
the poor.
The book does not fill the bill for al
Democratic candidates for Congress, and
it is said the committee may issue sup
plement covering the Republican abuse
since the beginning of the war with Spain
The Populists Of Blaine county
met at HALEY Tuesday and nomi-