Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08
FUSION DEAD.
The Official Organ Of the Fusion
Ticket Comes Out SquareIy For
Straightout Democracy.

HE Topeka democrat the official
organ Of the fusionists has come out
|squarely in opposition to fusion. It
has at last dawned upon the demo-
cratic mind that fusion not only
means the death of democracy, but
that it is only in the interests Of a
few Of the leaders and opposed to
the business and material interests
Of the state. 1t has been well
understood for some time that a
large majority of the democrats in
the state would not support the
fusion state ticket, and in fact
would have nothing to do with
fusion Of any kind, except on the
electoral ticket, but this announce
ment has created the most intense
CONSERVATION in the fusion camp.
It destroys the last vestige of hope.
Here is what the Democrat says:
'PaternaIism has no place in the
creed OF Democracy. Grover
Cleveland.
The above declaration ought to
find Judgment in the heart Of every
real democrat in Kansas.
1t is the brief and forceful state
ment of political doctrine that ami
mated and invigorated our earliest
impulses.
1t is doctrine that we have at
tempted in our brief editorial ex-
perience to defend, and it is the
doctrine by which we propose our
democracy shall hereafter be tried.
When the democratic convention
of Kansas, on the 9th of July last,
decided to 60 out of business, we
were not only amazed at its action,
but deeply grieved.
In our sad disappointment we
found it difficult, indeed. to unite
our feeble energies with those
whom We believed had no sympathy
with democratic doctrine. But in
the days of uncertainty Immediately
following that convention, we found
men older in the party than we, and
upon whom we had relied in former
days for counsel, bowling in sub
mission to the action Of that con-
vention.
Without the consent of our iudg-
ment, and animated only by a sense
of loyalty to party whose princi-
piles we had always accepted as a
statement Of our political faith, we.
too, yielded to what we believed to
be the exigencies Of the hour, and
undertook to travel that perilous
road of political inconsistency map
ped out by few ambitious politi-
clans.
But in this new field Of endeavor,
associated with and surrounded by
many new men, and coming in con-
tact with many new ideas and
notions incidental to the so-called
peoples movement, we are now con-
WINGED that the policy of the 9Th of |
July convention is not only un-
democratic in its character and
tendencies. but is one fraught with
positive danger to the existence of
our party, and antagonistic to the
peace and prosperity of our state.
We are further convinced, in view
of recent developments, that the !
very men whose advice guided and
controlled that convention were not
animated by spirit of unselish
devotion to the democratic party |
and the capitalization of demo-
cratic principles but were interested
solely in furthering the plans of
their own political ambitions.
1t is apparent to us now that it
was simply question of who should
be the United States senator from
Kansas, in the event of republican !
Gsfeat in the Legislature, and of who
should control the federal patronage
of Kansas in the event of democratic |
victory in the nation.
In view of these facts we believe
it to be our duty as citizens, and
that loyalty to democratic principles
demands, that we now renounce ALL
obligations to or affiliations with the
so-called combination between
democrats and peoples party men.
and unite our energies and fortunes
with those democrats who have