Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-04-20
Fusion.

The Wichita Beacon, the leading
democratic organ in Kansas, published
the following double loaded editorial
last Thursday. We commend it to the
careful consideration Of every man who
wishes to see the state pass out of the
grasp OF the corrupt party now in pow
er.~ Ii the opponents of extravaganza
ana corruption can not get together on
such vital matters, there will be mighty
little political sagacity manifested by
the leaders
The political atmosphere of Kansas
Is overcharged at the present time with
talk about a fusion Of the democrats
and the peoples party on state and
county tickets, as well as COMPRESSION
al tickets, by which the democrats are
10 secure congressman in the First and
Second districts and the congressman
at large, in consideration of the demo-
Gratis endorsing the five alliance con-
gressmen now in congress. And there
Is good deal of lodging the issue on
the part OF the party leaders, which DO
litlcal cowardice is as unbecoming as it
is unnecessary.
There will be fusion or there will
not be fusion, and the question must
be met and answered in the affirmative
or III the negative. There can be no
halfway business about 1t.
1t IS evident to every man, woman
and child outside of an insane ASYLUM.
that fusion of the democrats and the
peoples party followers and division
OF the offices among the two parties
means the complete overthrow of the
republican party in the state of Kan
sas and in every county thereof. 1t IS
as certain as death and the col |
lection OF taxes, that the running ="
three tickets and the complete II
'ion Vi Che democrats and eepara-
party followers mean me peoples
republican part - the victory of the
9resslona' y in the state, the con-
Jour' districts and naorIv o.,or,,
~ In the state of Kansas.
Now, what will the peoples party and
the democrats do?
The leaders of the peoples party have
been INDUCING in good deal of gen.
eralization, not to say political rot, by
announcing that their party would
nominate a state and county ticket
whose candidates would be acceptable
TO the democrats, and, as a result. the
democrats would support the peoples
party tickets.
The Beacon, which has been most lib
eral in its treatment of the peoples par
ty movement, and which assisted ma
terially in eIecting Jerry Simpson to
congress two years ago, and was the
only daily paper in the big seventh dis
trict to render the fusion candidate any
service, has no hesitation in saying that
such an arrangement on the part of the
peoples party will not be considered
FOR one moment by the democratic party.
II the peoples party desire to keep in
the middle of the road, they will be per-
mitted to enjoy the midway plaisance
as they did last fall, and that is all they
VIII cbJOy dII0T Inc election.
II the peoples party desire to fuse
and to divide the offices, which is the
only way union can be made. the tu-
sion must be made above board and
without any hemming or having about
the word or the practical result.
Inc peoples party can not name a
democratic ticket or the democrats to
De placed on the fusion ticket, and the
members might as we'll understand this
fact now as well as later.
Ii there is to be a fusion. the only
way to accomplish it is for the conven-
lions, state or county, to be neld on the
same day, and each convention appoint
committee OF conference. This Joint
committee can arrange what offices
shall go to the democrats and what of.
fees to the peoples party; and thus
each party can nominate its own candi-
dates for the Offices agreed upon. and
indorse the nominations of the other
party for the offices to which it is enti-
tied. In case the two conventions can
not be held on the same day. there
should be conference committee on
the part of the convention first in ses-
sion to confer with the state central
committee of the other party, and this
joint committee can arrange the diyi-
sion of offices, and the convention in
session can select the offices to which
it is entitled and leave the other offices
blank, to be filed by the other party
convention and to be placed on the in
complete ticket by the state central
committee.
In short, some such open and above
board arrangement will have to be
made in the state conventions and in
the Sedgwlck county conventions, or
there will be no fusion. That is all
there is to it. For if the rank and file
of the two parties are not in favor of a
fusion, the fusion ticket can not be
elected, and if the rank and file are in
favor of fusion and division of the
offices, they Will want to know all about