The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-05
NATHAN CREE IS GONE.
a. Prominent Man in the Recent
Democratic Convention
LEAVES The PARTY FOR POPULISE


vention and member Of the committee
on resolutions He presented the fol-
lowing minority report" to the conven-
ton:
A. the undersigned member Of your
committee on resolutions, beg leave 70
dissent from 20 much Of the report q
said com mittee as condemns woman sui
fraue. and respectfully sub mit the fol-
lowing resolution as a minority report
upon that subject
ssResoIved. That the pending amend
ment to our state constitution comforting
the right TO vote upon women. presents q
question concerning a change IN our fun
damental law upon which the Demo-
Gratis of Kansas are divided IN opinion,
and we declare that neither the support
Of said amendment nor opposition there
70 is a tenet Of the Democratic party or
Kansas. and we further declare that the
members of that party are free 10 vote
upon said anne ndment according to their
Judgment touching its merits.
No vote was even taken on Mr. Creess
resolution and today he announces that
he has left the Democratic party to join
hands with the P0pulIsts. Alf- Cree told
JOURNAL reporter that he would vote
the Populist ticket
1T looks to me- he said. .as If the
convention was a sort of modern Aver
nus. Avernus you know, was the name
or a lake in ancient Italy, situated in tile
crater of an extinct Volcano 81 emitted
poisonous Odors so that birds shat tried
to fiv over ii were destroyed; IL was sur
rounded by dense forests in which were
erected affairs for sacrifices to Hecate,
the monster. Tradition says that at this
place Ulysses made his descent into the
internal regions.
~Our Democratic convention is like
the modern Avernus. through which Mr..
Overmyer, as the Ulysses Of our DEM
ocracy, makes descent into the Internal
regions Of Kansas politics in quest Of
votes.
my substitute simply declared that
woman suffrage be not made test Of
party fealty, and when the convention
asserted that il a test, any one who
wishes to support the amendment can
hardly be called . Democrat in good
standing. So Democrats of my belief are
released from all obligati--s. and are
simply thrust out of the party. That is
why | will support the Popullst ticket
"On financial issues the platform is
POpulistic-there seems to be little diff
ference on finance between the stalwart
Democrats and the Popullsts whom they
are always denounc1ng SO vigorously.
II do not believe that the Democratic
ticket we have nominated will get many
votes They only took up one issue with I
the Populists and that is suffrage. +
or course they announced themselves /
in favor OF resubmission, but no
one is interested IN it, whatever. and it is /
not now live issue. While they do not |
demand the repeal Of the municipal suf-
frage law In terms they do in fact con-
denim it when they condemn female
suffrage Ia toto.
THE outlook for the Democrats every
where seems to me to he very dark.
The fortunes of the Democratic party
were never at 80 low an ebb as they are /
now. The condition of the party gener-
ally over the country il simply one of I
spontaneous anarchy and dissolution. 1t /
has wholly failed to adopt any efficient /
measure OF tariff reform and is broken +
into fragments on the currency question /
and income tax. The administration Il
and anti administration wings of the 4
party have fought each other with more
feeling and passion than they have
fought the Republicans and the feeling Il
il almost universal that the party can not 4
formulate any coherent policy nd that \
1T is incapable Of governing the country
~Ihe next house of representatives will
be strongly Republican. The senate will K
he mere folly 20 expect the election Of
Democratic president in 1896. The party
must be reorganized everywhere
and just upon what lines no
one can now determine, but the Democ-
racy Of hensas thus far has not indicated
any thing on this point A great many
Of the Democrats in the state will con-
slider that a vote for the Democratic
state ticket is about the same BAing az a
vote for the Republican ticket, and I'M
less lney prefer the 1OpulSt party they
Will probably vote with the latter
Again Mr.. Cree reverted to female
suffrage, Of which he is a strong advo-
cate. II do not think the Democrats of
the state are so much opposed to sur
frage," he said. 'sas some of the leaders
appear to think, although probably a ma
j0rity OF the party are opposed to il. The
Democratic party il 2 conservative party.
and female suffrage il comparatively a
new idea Our enemies have always
said that the Democratic party i imper-
vious to new ideas. that we are mere OBJ
structionists, and under the domination Of
obdurate and ignoble prejudices. We
seem 70 be afflicted with some leadership
that is calculated to give foundation for
that same unfavorable idea of the party
There Is too much Of tendency to pan
der to sentiments that are not of
an elevated character to say the
least or them. and the action
of the convention on woman
suffrage was largely governed by the
idea that it would bring to the support
OF the party a certain foreign element
who have ideas res pectin0 women which
are below the prevailing American
standard. Some OF our foreign element
a. we all know regard woman as fit for
nothing but . sort of household drudge
or field hand and the sentiments or
those people have been pandered to and
in that view il is the most degrading
thing that has ever been done In Alneri-
can politics"
MIR. Cree has long been prominent in
Wyandotte county, having served one
term a. county attorney and three years
as county auditor.
SOL MILLER AND BILL HACKNEY.
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