Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-08-03
ABOUT FUSION AGAIN.

Mr.. B. Hinsdell writes another
letter to the Logan Freeman in which
it is made plain that he has weaken
ed in the position he formerly took
against fusion with the democrats.
He now seems to wish to pave the
way for a fusion of Union LabOrites
with the democrats by asking, how
much worse would that be than a
cOllition of Democrats and Repub-
icans. He says:
They further cay that fusion OF laboring men
with the democrats Is a FidculOus-yes, an un-
how much more uHhOly fusion WOuld be be-
tween the Democrats and Republicans. Such
unhOly alliances have been made and almost
innumera6ie number OF cases the republicans
have fused with the old greenback and anti-mo-
nOpOiy parties and have we ever heard the above
editor say word about fusion in these casesg
No nor do We expect to.
Well now we will disappOint Mr..
Hinsdell by saying something about
fusion. We do object to fusion with
anybody if by so doing we have to
surrender our honest convictions of
right and have to support principles
and policies we think are wrong. We
believe that many Of the doctrines
held by the Union Labor Party are
sound and good, but under existing
circumstances there is no hope that
that party can secure Congress and
the President which are necessary
to do, to inaugurate the reforms
needed. The Democrats now have
the Administration, the House of
Representatives and only lack one of
having the Senate. That party al
ways was and is now hostile to every
doctrine advocated by the Union La
Dor Party. For generations instead
of being a friend of the laboring
man, It enslaved, him bought and
sold him as it did horse, and aided
! In the attempt to destroy the best
government on earth, because the Re
publican party wanted to bring into
practice the theory that all men were
created free and equal. The Repub-
lican party, while not without its
faults, has stood for more great equit-
| able principles than the Democrat
party, and has twenty men and TWEEN
ty newspapers to-day battling for hu-
man rights to one Democratic orator
or newspaper doing the same thing.
The Democratic party is the tool of
wall street, the pet of the saloon, the
opologist for the late Rebellion, the
defender of the frauds on the ballot
box in the south, and it don't propose
a single act to carry out the reforms
demanded by the Iaboring interests
of the country. On the other hand,
there is a dozen Republicans in Con
gress who have introduced bills to
cure every i'll that Mr.. Hinsdell com
plains of, and there are hundreds OF
Republican papers whose columns
are OVERLOOKING with arguments why
the Republicans should inaugurate
the reforms needed. Under all these
circumstances we make bold to repeat
that a fusion Of Union LabOrites with
such q party is an unholy alliance
and It's motive must be an unworthy
one, for the two parties hold nothing
In common, while the Republicans
have in the past and do now believe
many fundamental principles endOrs
ed and believed IN by the rank ant
file Of the Union Labor organization
1t is therefore. plain TO be seen that i
the LabOrites vote with the Republi
cans It will be from principle, and Z
, similarity Of fundamental doctrines
, IL they fuse with the democrats i
viii be, not for principle, but fo
{ Office.