Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-07-05
Fusion.

The way some of the fusion set in the
populist party are pouring forth male
dictions on we editor, when his back is
turned SO they can stab without being
seen, prompts us to say that men of
honorable motives don't have to sneak
around on the sly. A course that is
honorable does not have to be adVo-
Gated with bated and poisoned breath.
There Is an element in the populist
party, just like every other party, who
get so pulled up with self-conceit that
they think everything must bend to
their particular whim or break. No
member, no officer, no paper can stand
against the clique without being read
clear out in the cold. Independence Is
q crime against the party-that is, If
they are the party. But we think not.
The great. grand principle on which it
is founded; the principle of Equal
rights to all, and special privileges to
none, ''can not be cOrneFed by clique
ar ring. The party rises above any
thing of the kind. Just when any one
member, or small ring of members he
gin to think they are great big neces-
sity, the party's existence, just then
they are in shape to have the people
put their big foot on their cOnc6it and
Squelch it like puff ball. We COM
mend these thoughts to the careful
study of few who have been secretly
an ivrr IN of
Gests we are in the way OF someone
who wants an Office bad, either now or
in the future; or that our opposition to
cliques and rings, is liable, sometime,
10 put us in their way. Let us say we
are populists to the core, no democrat,
republican, or fuslonist. Whenever
we are convinced that the life of the
populist party depends upon that party
fusing with Its national enemy,
the democratic party, instead of
its principles, whenever we are
convinced thai depends upon a
few demonstrated ringsters instead
of the people; whenever we are con-
vinced that the principles 1t advocates
aSe too weak to gain converts without
the Vaccinations and support of few
favor!tes, we are ready to declare that
it has ceased to be party of the people.
Take from us every leader of to-day,
every officer we have elected, and we
believe the party would march grandly
on. Leaders called into existence by
the necessities of the hour, and there
are thousands in the ranks who have
never stepped forward that are just as
capable Of good leadership.
This talk of fusion is anXiously urg-
ed only by set of populiSts whom we
have every reason to believe look more
to emoluments than principle. We the
more firmly believe this because the
true western democrats, the Jefferson
ian democrats, the democrats who fav-
or enlarged circulation and an income
tax. these do not expect or desire it..
They realize that the eastern gold-bug,
creditor element dominates the demo-
crat party to-day, and they are only
holding ON in hopes of break In this
domination. They really want us to
stay right where are-in the middle of
the road; and there you may be sure
we are going 10 stay. They are not
charging us with being unfair. They
realize that we have given them the
position of greatest honor, the sena-
torship; and through that the offices of
greatest profit the federal patronage.
1t is to the best interests of the west.
10 the best interests of the people, to
the tests interests of the western dem
.ocrats who want shelter after the
.goId-bugs have turned them out in the
cold, TO the best interests of the party
and its principles that we keep in the
middle Of the road with our banner
waving. 1t is not with unkind feeling
coward our democratic friends OF any
one else that we adopt this course; we
believe the sober Judgment Of all VIII
endorse Il In The near future.