The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-13

withdrawn and the enforced payment
OF maturing obligations followed. Not
all the drOuthS or vIsltationS of grass
hoppers, or other disasters that are Incl
dent to the pioneer development of
new state begin TO equal the injury
which these men did to the credit and to
the name of the stale; and, in spite of
ali, no state in tie Union ever began to
show the recuperative power that Kan
sas has shown in the last two years
The Republican party. stunned al
most by the sudden and rapid growth of
this frenzy, at first battered with and
half approved it. with a view of win
ming back the Republicans who had
been beguiled into it. Later on they
gained courage and learned that the
way 20 meet and defeat this movement
was TO denounce its fallacies. American
| fair play, free discussion and respect
| full hearing of both sides of this question
have been restored in Kansas, and as a
/ result am assured that a large number
of Republicans who have been drawn
into this party have come out from it,
and have renewed their old affiliations.
Every principle which this party
holds Is alien to the immemorial doc
trines Of the Democratic party. The
Republican and Democratic parties rep
| resent the political affiliations Of the
great mass of American citizenship. If
| these parties are radically corrupt. if
the purposes of these parties be TN
! patriotic and oppressive, then is
the whole fragmen. of our national
polity a sham and failure. The
fountain can rise no higher than IFS
source. To suggest such thought,
howevege. it seems to me is little short
of reasonable. And yet, instead of en-
ulating the Republicans in persuading
out of the folds of this local faction the
honest Democrats who have been be-
guilcd into it, the majority in the con-
vention of July 6, in effect asserted that
such Democrats had acted rightly and
commercially in going into this talrd
party movement and enJolned them to
stay there; and more, by the shameless
surrender of the party organization tLey
opened the door of this charnel house
and sought to thrust within the whole
body of the honest and patriotic Democ-
racy of the state of Kansas,
There never was in the history of
parties what in the higherst sense might
be called an honorable fusion. a fusion
always involves of necessity a laying
aside of principle for mere Fictitious
success, but that which was done
upon the 9Th of July was not a fusion.
a fusion means that two parties shall
get together; shall abate for the time
being the grounds Of difference and sur
render for the time being the vindica-
ton of retrospective principles of either,
and agree to hold by party discipline
both elements of the fusion in one Or
ganization, and to fairly apportiou the
resulting spoils. This was attempted 10
be done by the appointed or self-const-
tuted leaders who maneuvered the con-
vention of July 6, but the Populists
would have none of it. The offer TO
divide the offices and to fuse was con-
temptuously rejected, and the humili-
ating spectacle was witnessed of Demo
Gratis offering themselves as candidates
at Jerry Simpsons Wichita convention
and being scornfully and derlsively
spurned from the door. And yet, after
all this, the majority of the convention |
of July 6 disbanded their Democrptic Or
ganization in a presidential year, and /
to the Democracy of Kan
sas that they should assist in the success |
of a party the triumph of which
in November will Go more harm to the |
credit and good name OF the state than
ten prosperous years of good crops and !
successful tillage can restore. 1t was !
not fusion--lt was not even an honor /
able retreat. 1t was cowardly throw
ing down of arms without the firing of |
a shot-running into the camp of the |
enemy and humbly asking to be taken
prisoners.
at is an i'll bird which fouls its own
nest. Nothing is more commendable
than the pride of a citizen in his state,
nor more detestable than the absence of !
it. The Kentuckian grows an inch tall
er when the name OF Kentucky is men
toned. So does the Nirginian, the New
Yorker, the Ilinoisan, and the Hoosier
from the borders of Michigan to the
hoop-pole district of Posey county, be-
trays at all times pride in the greatness
Of his state and the glorious fame of her
leading and representative citizens
Only TO Kansas is it to be given
to be maiigned and abused by
her chosen representatives. And yet
every one here knows, who is able
10 institute comparison between
Kansas and other portions of our COM
mon country, that the east 200 square
miles of this state is the richest, the most
productive and the best country that the
sun of heaven ever shone upon.
against this effort by party domino
lion to ally honest men ana Democrats
against the best interests of the safe in
which they live, and IN favor Of the
worst enemies the state has ever had,
.he movement was instituted which
in today's conference. We
nave declared in this conference that no
party convention had a right to bind US
10 the support of another party, whose
principles were not only inimical to our
own, but were snbversive to seif-govern-
nent everyw here, and INJURIOUS TO the
pest interests of the state. We have as
serted that the Democracy of Kansas is
sbsolved by the action the convention of
July 6, and that every Democrat is free
% vote as he pleases. or not to vote at
Ill; and that particularly he is not
obliged to and should not promote the
success of the so-called Peoples party"
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
Clayton is taking the necessary steps