The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1894-09-13
Gorman's Plans in Montana
and Nebraska.
DEMOCRATS TO WORK THEPOPULISTS
Grover Cleveland and Few "FOxy''
Politicians Propose to Wreck the
Dead Letter in 18OO-Em1s-
saries Working Montana.


Nonconformist, one of the best reform
papers in America, is published at the
request Of Granite county populist who
has the welfare of that party at heart
and who does not want to see it con-
verted to the base purposes which the
democrats Of the state are striving:
Senator Gorman, who is a far-seeing
politician, was the first one to recognize
the great danger to plutocracy that lay
in the growth Of the People party, and
he resolved to rum it before it became an
element Of dagger, much after the same
manner that the old Greenback party
was put in it's grave. It was first to be
used to help the Democratic party to
power and then it was to be utterly
crushed. He began work more than two
years ago. His object was to get Dem
ocratic majority in the Senate, and thus
give his party full control of the whole
government. He succeeded in getting q
majority Of two. 1t was done by fusion.
In that way he got a Democratic Senator
from two former Republican States,
Kansas and California. If the plan had
fully succeeded. he would have had four,
one each from Washington and Wyoming,
but there confronted him few mon in
those Legislatures who could be neither
bulldozed nor bribed
German had largely succeeded in the
work when new difficulty faced him.
The Democrats lost New Jersey and
are certain to lose New York. To cover
these losses, German set himself to work
again. One of his chief ASSISTANTS was
Hoke Smith, Secretary OF the Interior.
They looked over the field and concluded
that Nebraska and Montana promised
most for success, and SO they set the
wheels in motion to secure a fusion in
those two States that would result in
sending two Democrats to the Senate
They did not care what kind OF Demo-
Gratis they were, just 30 they were Dem
ocrats. Free Silver men would serve
their purpose just as we'll as goldbugs
For the last fvo months this scheme to
effect fusion in Nebraska and Montana
has had the aid of the Oldest and foxlest
politicians in the United States. Every
sort of inducement has been offered.
These men had in their gift cabinet
Offices, positions in the diplomatic SER
vice, in the judiciary, and in every de-
partment Of the government. The supre-
macy of the Democratic party and it's
three hundred thousand appointments
were at stake.
In an unguarde,l moment Hoke Smith
confed in newspaper man who is work
ing on a goldbug paper, and clue was
found, which, being followed up, led to
the discovery of the whole plot. Cor
mans idea was to first maintain the
democratic ascendancy in the senate,
and have the populist party SO discred-
tied before the people that it would
dwindte and soon die. II by populst
votes he could elect democrats in the
north, he we'll knew that the populist
cause in the south was hopeless and
there would still be solid south. This
plan would have been successful had it
not been "for this unfortunate Alabama
election in August" If Kolb should
carry Alabama there could be no hope
for fusion with democrats in the west.
German is shrewd man, but Cleve-
lands obstinacy in insisting upon q
goldbug canidate and platform in Alaba-
ma, IN spite of all that German, Hoke
Smith, and others in the scheme could
do, is about to make all OF Gorman's
scheme 60 awry. It was this interference
of Cleveland that made Gorman 80 furious
the other day and not the letter to
Wilson.
Morgan did not intend to 20 to Ala
bama at ALL but when things began to
look SO desperate down there there, the
whole party united to force him to 60.
Morgan is not politician, and in his
speech at Birmingham on July 18th he
said some things that German considers
very indiscreet Morgan said:
Numbers and numbers OF bills that
can only be passed by virtue Of the fact
that we have two majority in the senate.
One Of these we have lost, Kansas
Mr.. Martin. That would put us in one
minority, but we make up one from
Montana and another probably from
Nebraska, He will be called populist,
bat he is a democrat. I think we will
make two more by the new State of
Utah. though do not know the terms
upon which it was admitted, not having
been in my seat when it was done, but I