The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-27
WHAT FUSION MEANS.

II the Democrats and Greenbackers
proposed by the respective leaders of
these organizations. it will be virtual
confession that neither of them possess
any principles which are worth striving
for, and that they are divided by no is
sue which may not be easily sacrificed
to considerations of expediency, and
the ignoble ends of selfaggrandiZement-
Differing, professedly, upon the great
questions which absorb the thought of
the eminent statesmen of the country,
and both arrogating TO themselves the
mission of reforming the alleged abuses
of the party in power, though by meth
DDS rs widely diverse as it is possible TO
conceive antipodal methods to be, they
nevertheless propose To yield what they
claim to he the principles" upon which
their organizations are founded, Ia the
interest of an alliance whose sole pur-
pose, manifestly, is To gain what neither
of them can ever reach by bold and
honest reliance upon the inherent worth
of their political lenets. Can any intelli-
gent. fair-minded man, who has watched
the rise, progress and decline
OF the Greenback party, doubt
that il is the creature
of those disgruntled and disap-
pointed politicians who have failed 10
satiate their lust for place in the regular
organizations from which they have Sc
coded? If any of our readers were ever
lead to believe, during the trying period
which followed in the wake of an in
flated currency, that the Greenback par
ty had any legitimate mission or was
called into life by any need of the times,
have not the benefcent results of re-
sumption and the general business pros
perity which has resulted from the exer
else of financial policy which was
contested inch by inch by that hybrid
combination of Republican and Demo
cratic soreheads, served to show them
the error of such beliefs The party
by the light of the most palpablc facts
can have no purpose in shaping the adj
ministration of public affairs, and by the
very willingness which it has everywhere
manifested to make any surrender which
will promote its. chances for attaining
power, stands confessed rs mere sub
terfuge for advancing the ends of the
INSCRIPTIONS political schemers who
have marshaled under its banner.
Not less open to the censure of hones
men in its chosen ally, the Democratic
party, which, while i; processes to de
spisc and proclaims itself ut variance
with the heresies of the infationists, is
nevertheless, willing to so far stultifJ
itself rs to throw over its boosted "Lra
ditions" and prostitute itself by a mer
cenary alliance with a mushroom organi
cation that has reviled it with every
foul epithct known to the vocabulary o
the Grecnback orator. The fusion pro
gram is sheer matter of bargain anC
sale, between two parties both of which
are too infirm To stand alone, ana whicl
hope, by pooling their issues, to gail
that support which they could never de
rive in a square, honest fight made upoi
the antagonistic theories TO which the.
profess to hold. There is no rea
sympathy between them, and if tn
proposed fusion is accomplished, tn
parties 10 the transaction will be simpl
held together by the cohesive power of
hope in their ability to share the public
spells. We opino that the honest voter
of Kansas will measure I'M all of il
length and breadth the weakness Of
cause which is reduced Ia the eXtremit
of sustaining existence by such despic;
bic means.