The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-05
KANSAS DEMOCRATS.

| TOPEKA, KAN. July 4,-The Democratic
state convention will meet in this city on
| Wednesday, The indications are that the
! fusion scheme will be carried out and that
the entire Peoples party ticket will be
! made the Democratic ticket There will
| be opposition 10 this scheme, especially
| from the Second and Fifth congressional
! districts The majority of the delegates
! from these districts will demand a straight
! Democratic ticket. but the Third, Fourth,
Sixth and Seventh districts will be practi-
! Cally solid for the fusion plan. The Peo
! pies party electoral ticket will he indorsed
| without opposition. The fight will be
against the Endorsement of the state ticket.
Judge John Martin, late Democratic can
| dldate for governor, Is openly in favor of
! iudorsing the whole ticket, aud Mt the
! Democratic convention Saturday made Il
| speech urging Shawnee Democrats TO send
| n delegation for fusion. David Overmeyer
| is against it. and SAYS so far as he
can see there WAS no more inducement
TO the Democrats TO indorSe the Peoples
| party ticket than to indorse the Republi
can ticket. Judge Martin is the head of
! the Shawnee delegation, aud Eugene
! HaCan. Rankin, Mason and other advo-
| Gates of fusion are on the delegation. At
least dozen counties. including pawnee,
| Dickinson and Sedgwick, have instructed
their delegates to favor the Endorsement OF
the Peoples party ticket. John T. Little,
the Peoples party nominee for attorney
general, will be obnoxious to a good many
Democrats. because he has been Prohi-
bltiOulst Leweliiug, Peoples party caud-
date Tor governor waS also an active Pro
| hibltiOnist IN Iowa, and also made several
Prohibition speeches, bur the probability is
that the Democrats will take him anyway
h stands well in the state, and with the
support of both parties he has "A good show
OF election. Colonel Thomas Z. Fenlon.
the leader of the Democrats OF the FIRST
congressional district, who has heretofore
opposed fusion, announced to-day that he
was in favor Of indorsiug the entire Peo-
pies party ticket. He says:
Considering the platform of the Re
publican party adopted at Topeka and the
character OF the candidates who were de
feated, for one, / am willing TO nominate
in the Democratic state Convention the
nominees of the Alliance party. Not that
! believe in or iudorSe all their views or
doctrines but 10 the eni that every honor
atIe effort should be made without sacri-
flee OF pr.nc,p pie 10 destroy party which
is now wilhoa- principle aud afraid even
TO express itself upon the greatest and
most vital question before the people OF
this state. that Is whether a cOuSt tutionai
convention should be called 10 amend the
organic law OF the state Faithful aud
/ honest officers We're defeated because they
ala tbelr uuff aCCOrUluS 20 law, ana every
issue WAS adopted upon the theoty that
the people We're fools. The ticket aud
platform should he defeated br the level
headed. common-seuse men OF tie
state. and. have SAID
before, although d. not a-ree
with the A iiluce in ull their views, I srn
willing To join VI b them 70 sCcsn pljsh
a common purpose. lost 10 pgIucJpie and
iorgetiul OF the men VINO made their party
the Republican party as al organ .zI5lon
III Kansas should perish. and - accom-
pl,su this purpose am willing 10 ION rlth
men with wnOm / 90 uot agree ia other
matters. The prime object ! TO detea,
the Republican party w.tn its scc.e>ia>ti-
clSm. IT. prohib .jiou. its woman suffrage
ana cowar'iIce upon the question oi cou-
sfltutluuai convention. auL am willing 20
take yLe Chances OF what shall follow their
defeat The Democrats Of kAusas are Tor
the national ticket nominated nt Chicago
and loyal TO Democratic principles diwavs
and an approval OF the Al!IAucs ticket "a
Kansas means only the destruction " the