The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-26
THE ALLIANCE AGAINST FUSION

The man who looks for consistency
and other traditional virtues in political
fusion. is doomed to fruitless search.
The object of fusion in Kansas is to pool
the strength of the Democratic and AL
lance parties and to secure the offices
and spoils.
1t is occasionally good thing from a
mental and moral standpoint to shelve
our partisan blindness for moment and
look the issue square in the face. Fusion
is wrong. 1t is uniting two parties of
Numerically opposed tenets and sacri-
fcing sentiment for disgraceful scrim-
mage for spoils. If political parties are
to cease to appeal to the people on
national issues, for national salvation
and prosperity, and merely ask the
suffrage of the voters for the furtherance
of their own private ambitions for glory
and cash, the country is indeed in a
precarious condition.
There is still voice of principle in
this country.
The Democratic and Alliance parties
have no principle in common. The idea
of fusion is simply nefarious scheme
for crowd of Democrats who could
never get anything under Republican
rule to walk to victory over the AL
liance's disregard for principle.
The Alliance is party, separated from
the Republican party, which denounces
the practices and principles of both the
old parties and declares its absolute indie
pendence of either. This is that which
lends such a ludicrous cast to the recent
action of the Democrats of the Fourth
district who named a man for congress
and demanded the Alliance TO support
him.
Despite all that has been said deroga-
tory to the Alliance no one has accused
it of lacking principle or of being I'M
| faithful to its belief and accused it right
fully. 1t may be mistaken in those
principles, but it is true to them. For
this reason it begins to appear that the
Peoples party, made up of Republicans,
as it is, is too good and Of too fine a
texture to be party to the mercenary
coalitions of the Democrats. In short,
the Alliance is showing itself against
fusion. The result of a number of last
Saturdays conventions will show this to
be fact.
At the Peoples party convention at
! Stockton, Rocks county, on Saturday q
vote was taken on the question of fusion
and every delegate voted for the resolu-
ton which declared against fusion in
any form. At the convention every
delegate elected to the state and con
! greSsional conventions was compelled to
stand up and say that he would not
under any circumstances agree to any
| arrangement which meant a combina.
ton between the Democrats and People:
party on any terms. The resolutions
adopted by the convention declare thai
the Peoples party of Rocks county ara
against any kind of a partnership Will
the Democrats and that combination
of that kind would mean death TO the
Peoples party.
Al Norton the county convention oil
the Peoples part on the same day adopt.
ed resolutions which say. in the mos
emphatic language that no kind OF fu
sion with the Democrats will be endorsed
by the rank and file of the Peoples party
The delegates elected TO the state con
gresSional conventions are pledged to
vote against fusion of any kind and tc
nominate candidates who have left the
old parties for good and who are out
and-out Peoples party men. There were
not over five men in convention Of
nearly one hundred who favored fusion
and she sentiment of the convention
was Overwhelmingly against
combination with the Democrats
AT Paola the county convention OF III,
Peoples party declared by vote o.
nearly three 10 one against fusion viii
the Democrats. A number of the mer
who have been running the party for th,
last year OF two, tried 10 push through {
fusion scheme, but the Demo-Allianc,
manipulators were thrown oYerboaJC