Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-07-21
STATE AFFAIRS
And Capital City News of State
Interest.
Before the Convention:

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last one was held there in 1884. Since
then the democrats have met either in
Leavenworth or Wichita. For once
those two eminent democratic chieftams
Ex-Governor George W. Click and
Judge John Martin of TOpeka-are
pulling together. Both openly advo=
cate the nomination of the peoples par
ty ticket, and many others are working
with Martin and Click.
The men who are opposing the fusion
ticket and who declare that the demo-
Gratis Of Kansas will accept nothing but
straight democracy are IN dead earnest.
Among them are Colonel A. A Harris of
Fort Scott, David OvermeYer, ". c.
Perry of Fort Scott and @. K. Holiday
of Topeka, DR.. n. d. Tobey and Joseph
G. Lowe, late democratic candidates for
congress in the Fifth district. Barney
Sheridan of the Paola Spirit, Judge
James Humphrey aid Colonel ]: r: Nc;
Clure of Junction City, Joe Dillon OF
Kearney county, late democratic caudi-
date for state auditor; J. Z. Watrous OF
the Burlington Independent, j. B.
Crouch, editor of the Hutchinson Times;
Colonel W, @. Jones, chairman, and w.
II. l.. PePperill, secretary Of the state
central committee.
James w. Orr, the well known Atchi-
son democrat, said: 1--WE want to take
Kansas out of the republican column;
of course a democratic electoral ticket
cannot be elected, and if we give our
votes to the peoples party electoral
ticket it is almost certain that the repub
lican electoral ticket will be defeated.
Kansas, and possibly half dozen other
western states, will be lost to the repub
licans, and should Cleveland fail to re-
ceive a majority of the electoral votes,
it viii go into the house and of course
democrat would be elected. I don't
know of democrat in Kansas who OBJ
jects to voting the peoples party cleo
toral ticket. By doing SO it probably
takes Kansas out of the republican col
umn, and it might be the means of say
ing the presidency to the democrats"
1t is noticeable fact that the dele
gates from nearly all the large cities are
in favor of a fusion ticket. Wichita is
solid, Topeka is almost solid; Leaven-
worth, Atchison and Kansas City are al
most unit in favor of the endorsement
of the entire peoples party ticket.
The Fifth district has fifty delegates
solid against fusion:
Nearly all the candidates on the ped
pies party ticket were here trying to
swing the democrats into line for fusion,
Stephen H Allen, the nominee for su-
preme court Judge, and John Il. Little
OF johnson county, the nominee for at
| torney general, spent the day with Gov
ernor Click, Governor Robinson, DR..
Nelly and other democrats. Judge Al
len is well known among the democrats
and is regarded as a tolerably fair sort
of a democaat. The fusionists say that
he is about as good a democrat as there
is in Kansas: There is slight opposition
to Mr.. Little for attorney general on
the ground that he is a prohibitionist,
but Mr.. Little is taking the trouble to
assure the democrats that he is not a
| prohibitionist, and that for many years
past he has worked with the democrats
in johnson county, although he has not
been a member of the democratic party
since the organization Of the greenback
party.
Colonel w. A Harris of Leavenworth,
the peoples party nominee for congress
man-at-large, hopes to secure the demo-
cratic Endorsement. He has Just re-
turned from Europe, the peoples party
having nominated him while he was alb
sent. He said, that he had no political
ambition, but in view of the fact that it
seems to be the desire of the party that
he should make the race he had decided
to accept. The fact that lie served on
the other side during the rebellion, will
not, in his judgment, hurt him in this
race. The war was settled in 1865 and
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that issue reopened
The Kansas Democratic Editorial as
sociation held meeting and discussed
the fusion question. Twenty editors
were present and fifteen voted against
fusion. The following resolutions were
adopted:
WHEREAS, It is proposed by certain
delegates to this convention to indOrsC
the whole peoples party ticket homi
mated at Wichita and thereby abandon
the organization of the democratic par
ty; be it
Resolved, That we, Representatives
and editors of democratic newspapers o
Kansas do hereby appeal to all truc
democrats to pause long and conside
well before they take the fatal Step
step toward the destruction OF from one
third to one-half of the democrats
weekly newspapers of this state.
Resolved, That while willing to sup
port the peoples party electors we ear
nestly declare to the delegates of tn
democratic state convention that tn
only way to insure this desirable result
is to nominate a full state ticket O
straight democrats to the end that tn
full democratic vote may be polled.
Resolved, That We solemnly protes
against this convention taking a cours
J that will and must ALLEVIATE from Grove
Cleveland at least 10000 Democrat
votes in Kansas in the coming election
= that will break down the democratic OF
ganization in nineteen twentieths of tn
counties of Kansas; that will rob demo
ocratic newspapers and Democrat
speakers of every democratic issue en-
bodied in the national platform; tina
indirectly indorses the peoples part
platform, state and national, with GOV
eminent loan Offices, government owner
ship of railroads, and woman suffragl
Little 9-year-old Winnie Peffe
granddaughter of Senator PETER, wa
injured in the eye by a frecracker o
the Fourth, at her home, SIS Fillmo1
street. For a time it was feared 81
might lose the sight of her eve, bu
later it was found that the injury wa
not serious.
At the entrance to the Santa Fe ger
2 eral Office building there is an indexe
book containing the name, room en-
T ployed in and residence OF every en-