The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-25
wEAyER'S GEORGIA TROUBLE

The Weaver difficulty in Georgia had
quite an effect on the politicians of Sedg
wick county yesterday. 1t made some ot
| them hot. while il Disguised others II
made all the Peoples partyitss blue for il
| illustrated 10 their Democratic allies one
| fact. and that is, that the Peoples party,
while kissing the Democrats in Kansas.
are fighting them like wild fire in the
south. They have been told this hereto
| fore, but until now they thought, or pre-
/ tended to think, it was Republican talk.
| and that's all IL was ali the talk at the
| fusion headquarters and there was really
| only one opinion expressed as TO its result
| aud that is that it will have a damaging
effect on the Kansas Alliance campaign.
The sentiment here among the People S
party men is that Weaver made "A fool of
himself in cancelling his enga gements.
One local Populist said in conversation
with reporter for the EAGLE that Weav-
er's foolishness, as he called it. caused a
loss of Ii, 900 votes to the Peoples party in
Kansas from the Democratic element
alone. A we'll known Democrat said: 1T
will not have any noticeable effect on the
electoral ticket, for we are not voting for
Weaver anyway; we are voting against
Harrison. Do you think for moment
that ii we thought there was possible
chance of Viewers election that We would
vote for him, not much Mary Ann. /
for one would ten times prefer voting for
Harrison, for we realize that there Is no
party in the country competent to run the
government but the two Old parties |
think, however, that Weaver has done more
nr ha n Is
than any other existing agency. We ali see
now that the Alliance is more OF an enemy
to our party than the Republican party is,
and we propose 10 head 'em off, and dom {
you forget it,"
How?
BY striking at the state, congressional
and county tickets. We will show these
people a trick or two before the final set
thing up. Weaver has no possible chance
OF getting there anyway, SO to fight him
would be waste of ammunition. This
gentleman, Of course, did not mean that
the party would fight the state ticket
openly. for il that was done they are afraid
that the Republican element in the ALI
ance would see the scheme underlying the
whole fusion business and rush back TO
the standard of Harrison.
Another and z more prominent Demo
crat took a different view of the situation
and thought thousands of Democrats
would not vote for Weaver at all. III
tell you," said ne. II am beginning to see
the serious side of politics. l confess
have always thought that there was moth
ing IN politics anyway but the Offices, but
| am changing my mind on that subject.
! was in favor OF Viewers party be-
cause I thought they were honest IN
their pretensions OF closing up the
bloody chasm,' but here | see the
leader of the party going south and max
Ing the breach wider than ever. ] am dis
gusted with the whole business, and |
guess Pll go fishing on election day. If 1t
isn't too cold. There is whole lot of
hypocrisy in this fusion business, and i
have got to d point that don't believe in |
hypocrisy in politics any more than in the |
commercial world, in society or in the |
church. They call it Republican |
scheme; that is nonsense. II the ALI |
ance people are friendly 10 the Democrats |
as they claim, and the Republicans OF |
Georgia should attempt to IRE an egg at |
Weaver there would be a policeman on 1
the back OF each egg thrower. What is /
the case' 1t is simply this, that not /
man was arrested or touched"