New-York tribune., 1892-10-20
TVOTr(, ETS EOR pOPTLISTS."

Such Republicans a. are still giving aid to
the Democracy by supporting fusion or People $
tickets at the West, are bound, as honest men,
to look Squarcly at certain facts which recent
events make pialn.
I. Southern Democrats who pretended to 90
into the Peoples party have generally aban-
doncd if. Throughout the East and South
Democratic paDcIs are stating, with the abSo-
lutc costainty which comes only of power t.
copfroI elections by fraud, that every southern
State will vote for Mr.. Cleveland. They may
possibly be mistaken, but experience IN Ala-
bama and Georgia this year. and in the south
ern States generally for fifteen years past, IN
dicates that votes in that section are likely to
be counted before they are east.
=. The Peoples party at the West is not, as
many hoped it would be, a party OF the people
Engineered and directed by the most notorious
nolitical hacks and chronic Olicc-ScckcrS, IN
most of tho Western States, it continues t.
exist solely for the purpose OF detachng enough
Republican votes 10 make Democratic success
possible There is no more chance OF getting
ANYBODY but Mr.. Cleveland elected President, II
the election should once 60 10 the House, than
there is of clccting Weaver by the popular
vote of Ncw-York Men who want to help the
Democratic party had better do 50 openly and
like men. answering for il to tho world and
their c1nSccncCS.
3 The Republican party Is not dead nor
diving. a. some fanatics imagined. Stronger
than ever at the Last, because of Democratic
fusion in Western states with men whose OBJ
icctS the Eastern Democrats profess II dotcst ;
stronger than ever in all manufacturing states
bccau>c of the wonderful growth Of manu-
facturc> since the new tariff WAS adopted :;
stronger wherever patriotic feeling is found be
cause of the splendid conduct Of the Admin
stration in foreign affairs. itS defence oi
American honor. lis Reciprocity treaties, ana
il, success, in opening foreign markets TO Ameri-
can meat products. the grand old party l.
making such a fight TINT itN advcTsarlcs begin
to despair. This AZ least recent events make
certain. that the Republican party cannot be
put on the shelf, br will live to triumph when
over the people comprehend that nothing else
can save ihc country from Free Trade, wildcat
money and the domination of a South made solid
by fraud.
!. The so-cacd Peoples party was born
of bad crops and ignorance. Many who read
only one Sido came to believe that the Repub-
lican party had created all monopocs, plum
dcrod and impoverished the people, and re-
duccd the land T. starvation. Tho crops of
1891 paid of mortgages by the thousand, and
every man cmancpatcd from debt began to
look facts in the face and SAW what lies had
been told him. Calamity walters have not
been gaining votes since the bad harvest OF
1890. and IT is uphill work for them this
wear. with the evidence, of Unprecedented pros
pcrity rolling in every day from official and
other sources.
Ii is a good time for those who have been
used by the Democratic party aS its tools to
ask themselves seriously if they have not been
so used long enough. TO be cheated once is
about enough for most AmcricanS The rrac-
tical hard handed and hard-headcd men OF the
West must speak for themselves, and say
whether they care to be used as catSpaws in
another election.