Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-10-21
DEMOCRATS REJECTING FUSION.

DEMOCRAlS HEJ ECIlNG tUSlON.
Leading democrats throughout the
state, says the Grand Forks Herald,
have conceived intense disgust for the
fusion scheme, the bargain of candidates
and sale of principles effected by the
democratic state committee. The OPP
position to fusion, strong from the out
set, was ably represented on the floor of
the democratic convention, and although
there overborne by a preponderance OF
delegates, has steadily increased in bit
terness and will reach it's climax when
the votes are polled in November.
Democrats who are loyal to democratic
principles are disguised at the with
drawal of democratic candidates, and
are about as enthusiastic in support of
the calamity ticket as the democratic
party was in support of Horace Greeley
for the presidency in 1872. History re-
peats itself, and as the rank and file of
the national democracy in 1872 refused
to vote for Greeley, the fusion candidate
nominated by the so-called "liberal
republicans" so in 1892 democrats in
North Dakota will refuse to vote for the
calamity ticket. Of these, thousands
will absent themselves from the polls on
election day in preference to voting for
Weaver and candidates for state offices
who stand on the absurdities of the
Omaha platform, while others will re-
buKe the betrayal Of their party at the
hands of the state committee by voting
direct for republican candidates, state
and national. In evidence of the grow
ing %anti-fusion sentiment among demo-
Gratis, a significant letter written by that
"war horse Of democracy" Judge J. W.
Bennett, to the democratic state CON-
mittee, is here appended:
FARGO, N. d., Oct. 4.-Hon. d. w. Mar
rata, Chairman Democratic State Com
mittee: Dear Sir-In answer to your let
ter of the 18th ult:, providing for my 'going
on the stump during the campaign" |
have this to say: That after due consider
alton / have made up my mind to decline
it, having aScertained to my satisfaction
that the motives that animated the leaders
of the party, who moulded the actions of
the convention, he'd in the city of Fargo,
Sept. 8, 1892, are not such as commend
themselves to democrats, and especially to
those who believed that victory was within
our grasp by q continued adherence to the
time-honored principles of the party and
the incubation of democratic doctrines now
before the people for their approval.
The figures which l have taken pains to
publish, show a decrease in the republican
majority from 1862 In 1889, to 1928 in
1890, out of a total vote of 36,489; and the
opportunity thus offered of wiping out the
meagre majority Of two years ago, has
been frittered away by the actions Of sell
fish and designing men in that convention.
l cannot consistently see my way clear
to the presentation of the principles and
issues involved in this campaign, handi-
capped as l would be, by what 1 regard as
the Suicidal act of the convention, and
more recently by the act of the state COM
mittee; for which reason l must and do
most respectfully decline to stultify my
self, as 1 should do, if l were to "go on the
stump"
1 cannot be in line with the so-called
democrats of North Dakota, who manipu-
lated the late convention and in common
with hundreds OF others, repudiate their
acts and also those of the state committee.
Very truly yours,
JOHN W. BENNETT.
In the same line is the following Wig
orous utterance from the true blue
democratic organ, the Inkster Tribune:
It is honorable and right that there
should be two parties and it is a grand
sight to see them i'll battle array contend.
ing for what they believe to be for the best
as they drop into mere Office-seekers and
wire pullers. they become a disgrace. The
democrats of the state of North Dakota
have no isSueS-they are not cOntending
for anything in the interests of the people
even the tariff has dropped from their
view and the only thing now, is the repub-
lican scalp. The mere act of beating the
republicans is a small matter to society if
their places are not filled with better men,
with men who have the interests of the
people at heart. With all our advance
ments in education and science; in art
and discoveries: we are making mighty
slow progress towards purifying politics.
their cry about the "rOtten old party" it
did for a while look as though they in
tended to do some good and work reform,
but the very first break they made was to
circulate a falsehOod. a lie as black as the
old devil himself. "We are not a political
party" The writer heard this on every
hand. but it was a lie as they were the first
in the field for political honors. The in
FAINT was born with a lie in its mouth, and
SO far as North Dakota is concerned it is
growing in wickedness and bad tricks
every day. 1t would have been a grand
thing, if the new party had been started by
men who were not old ring politicians,
embodied in their make up to scorn at the
low devices of men who have no higher
aim than the mere overthrow of an OppOs-
ing party. You place the republicans,
democrats and populists all in q bag and