The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-15
SOME DEMOCRATIC OPINIONS.

1t is probable that good many OF
our Democratic readers may be inter
ested in knowing what the newspa-
pers and the prominent men in their
party think of the harikari committed
at Topeka last week. We therefore
submit the following for their edifica-
ton:
Dduid OceTmyer: / will vote the
electoral ticket, but cannot support
the Peoples party State ticket, and /
am satisfied very large number of
the Democrats of Kansas will be
against it. Many will probably vote
no State ticket, and others will stay
away from the polls altogether, while
number will probably vote the Re-
publican State ticket.
Judge j. s. Emery: The action of
that convention means that 10000
Democrats will vote for Smith this fall
Political leaders and fiXers may bar
gain and sell voters as they would so
many bushels of wheat, but they can
not deliver the goods. The Democra-
tic leaders of Kansas have thrown
away principle, party and honor in
order to get spOilS and the voters will
not submit to such an outrage. The
convention might have endorsed the
electors of the Peoples party and
forced it down the voters but they
will not swallow the entire ticket.
Topeka Democrat: Without tick
ct, without a party, without a hope
for the future, the chilling days of
November will not yet have rolled
around, till half of the remaining
Spartan band will have been wiped
out of existence.
OIdthe Herald: If Grover Cleve-
land had been in that convention he
would not have asked his devoted
friends to make the sacrifice the con-
ventiOn demanded. He would not
have asked single Democrat to re-
linquish his political honor, his self
respect, and to grOvel i'm the dust.
The fight was on the Endorsement of
the State ticket, and was a bitter one.
1t was desperate struggle of devot-
ed band of Democrats for party princi-
pie and party organization against an
army of shrewd politicians who were
willing to exchange political honor
and the Democratic organization for
the sole purpose of defeating the Re-
publican party.
a motion to make the vote unani-
nous was drowned in roar of "Noesn
that shook the dome Off the capitol.
They resolved that the sale had been
made, but that the goods could not be
delivered-tha goods cannot be deliv-
cred. Twenty thousand people will
not vote the bastard ticket. The
knife has been plunged into the DEM
Ocratic party of Kansas, and the
wound is fatal. AS long as the Her
aid runs it will be a Democratic pa
per. The name of Grover Cleveland
will not be taken from its masthead.
How many Democrats in Johnson
county will stand by it?
w. u. 1omlinSon in Topeka Demo-
crdt: 1t is high time for self-respect-
ing Democrats to cease to be partisans,
and to seriously consider what is de-
by good citizenship and
proper regard for the material inter-
ests of the State. / seek position of
honorable, manly independence. |
will join in no bastard FUSION move /
ment that is utterly destitute of prin- I
ciple, and which is simply disgust /.
ing scramble for the "lOaves and fish
es"-a political prostitutes itch for
office. Decimated as the Democratic /
party is in Kansas, it yet contains
within its ranks enough self-respect-
ing and courageous voters, by honor
able independence of action, to pre-
vent open shame and dishOnor from |
being brought upon the State.