Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-05-20

SINCE the election in November there
has been established in Kansas about
twenty democratic newspapers. This
number more than compensates for the
suspensions which took place after the
convention of July as the direct result Of
fusion, so there are to-day more demo-
! cratic journals than there were before
the party fell.
After the democratic convention had
nominated the ticket of the peoples par
ty there was nothing left for many OF
the old partisans to do but to quit bust
ness. Some of the editors embraced
fusion, others rode astraddle during the
campaign, but there were some who re-
volted openly and went out of business.
Some of these have resumed the publ
cation of their papers, for they believe
that the distreSsful times demand that
plain talking be done concerning the
second proposal to trade away the party
faith, while in some places entirely new
plants have been established.
The growth of the number of demo-
cratic newspapers fOreshadows a very
sweaty time for John Martin and other
advocates of a second fusion. The fact
itself would show this without any ut
terances of illustration; but they are
not wanting remarks from editors which
indicate that in the next state conven-
ton of the democracy there will be in
teresting features, and the stalwarts will
not be overriden as they were last year.
Let a few specimen sentiments be
given:
The Independence Star and Kansan
says: eve have yet to meet a democrat
who is so anxious to see the republicans
defeated in our county this fall, or in the
state next fall, that in order to secure
that blessing he is willing to grease him
self, pin back his ears, and invite the
populists to swallow him. 1t may be set
down as certain that fusion, of the sort
we had last fall, will find no more favor
in the democratic ranks. Democratic
votes will only 60 where there are dem
ocratic candidates"
B. J. Sheridan, of the Paola Spirit,
feels this way: whatever else may
come, the democratic editors of Kansas
need not fear distress from any more
boycotts of their newspapers inaugural
ed by peoples party men. Their efforts
in 1891 in this line were like the last
kicks of knownothingism."
J. J. Rambo, of the Chetopa Democrat,
looks upon the corpse, and says that
democracy is eternal.
"Fusion and surrender is dead duck.
Democracy is eternal"
To the foregoing illustration of feeling
on the democratic side of the coalition,
an opinion on this line from populist ed
itors may be added Cyrus Corning,
one of the founders of the people, party,
says in the Topeka People:
Governor Lewelling thinks the peo-
pies party is growing in the state. May
be. In fact, we believe it is growing
rapidly less. The sentiment demanding
reform is certainly stronger. The gov
ernor's appointments have all been in
keeping with the fusion idea, and have
brought an unmerited and inferior ele-
ment to the front. These appointments,
almost all of them of a marked inferior
order, have done much to weaken the
peoples organization.
Governor Lewelling and the new
fusion state house ring have stood pretty
close to the side of Satan from the very
first"
Says the editor of the Topeka PobXlist :.
SIT will be simply suicide for us to go
into the next campaign loaded down
with the blackened record of the officers
we have elected"
Quotations of the kind given could be
made almost without number, but these
will show what kind of harmony there
is in the house of fusion.-Kaasas City
Journal