The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-09-30
WHAT WILL DEMOCRATS cor
There is no Sense In Attempting to Rule


There is no Sense In Attempting to Rule
Democrat Out of the Party Because He
Refuses to support n Mongrei Ticket Not
Named By Democratic Convention.
Kansas democrats are decided
ly puzzled over the situation Some
of their leaders, those who hoped to
reap personal benefit, are advising
fusion, or rather the support of the peo-
pies party ticket. Others insist that
the good name of the state should be
preserved The following from that
bourbon sheet, the Kansas City Times,
may be taken as a sample of the feeling
manifested by democrats who have not
exchanged kisses with the populists,
and who do not relish the class which
is ready TO defame its own state:
"On the merits of Judge J. 5. Emery's
utterances in 1890 and recently there
may be a difference of opinion but that
the democratic committee of his county
has any authority to declare him out
side of the party in view of his activ-
ity in opposing the fusion ticket is
proposition which cannot be main
tanned.
'In opposing individual candidates or
entire tickets which may be fairly sup
posed to be under the influence of the
harmful doctrines of imported socialism
an American democrat, to put the case
very moderately, does not run counter
to single principle or obligation of
party action.
"a candidate who does not publicly
inGorse the principles of democracy and
promise to apply them while he may
hold office imposes no burden of party
duty upon a democrat. lie is simply a
man. 4 democrat who has no clndi-
date before him bound by those princi-
pies and promises may give his support
or not as he pleases without breaking
the continuity of his party fealty.
I'm Kansas this question will repeat
eddy arise during the campaign and the
instance afforded by the formal con-
demnation of Judge Emery ought to be
discussed exhaustively.
"A party is an instrument for the,as-
sertion of principles and by no means a
society whose dictum is obligatory be-
yond that limit. Many minor points
will arise in straight party politics
which some voters will find objection
able but if there is danger OF weaken
ing the power of the party for the high
er good, such small objections will not
be insisted upon, since in all union
there must be some subordiuatiOn of
personal choice.
There are Kansas democrats who
believe that any encouragement of the
! incompetent leaders and of the inflam-
matOry platforms of the peoples party
is hostile to the commercial welfare of
the state The boycotts against mer-
chants and newspapers, Inaugural led
solely for political reasons, have alarmed
conservative democrats who hold that a
fanaticism which breaks out after such
fashion cannot safely be permitted to
possess the power of passing and exc
cutting laws.
ITO make support of Jerry Simpson
or John Davis a test of democratic 10y
atty IS not within the jurisdiction of
any body of men whatsoever. To help
in the election of q legislature which
viii drive capital from Kansas as a leg
islature drove it from Texas is not
democratic duty and nobody can impose
duty of that description.
''In indorsing n state ticket previous
" nominated by the peoples party, the
democratic convention simply made a
Recommendation. The candidates have
not accepted the nomination and have
not Subscribed to Il democratic plat
form. To vote for them or not is
matter for the free choice of every dem
ocratic voter"