Omaha daily bee., 1894-03-05
FUSION TED.
The Official Organ OF Nebraska Popuiism
Excorlatcs INCORPORATION,

Excorlatcs Mlscegenation.
a few days ago a party who signed himself
"a William ". Allen Man " made a PROPOSE
ton for a union Of poSulists and democrats
in the coming campaign through the World
Herald. This scheme is denounced and
repudiated by the state organ of the popu-
lists, the Alliance Independent, under the
caption, Proposed Political Prostitution
the substance Of which is as follows;
This William v. Allen" man is doubtless
a democrat and IL is more than likely he
holds down n desk in the World Herald office.
No real populist can be found among us so
utterly devoid Of political sense as to pro-
pose what he proposes. If any man calling
himself a populist did write the above letter
he is ashamed to let his name be known
that is evident, and he is q traitor In the
camp. The place for every mar who wants
to fuse with the democrats is. and has ever
been, with the democrats. He is made OF
trading, purchasable stun. Such men are
not populists. They can't be, They haven't
enough Of the salt Of principle in them to
save them from the dunghill and they are
an offense to the moral sense of every honest
man. They work the greatest possible harm
to any reform party they attach themselves
to, and they bring to any such party COM
plete destruction If allowed In one or two
campaigns to tie 1t to or fuse 1t with either
OF the corrupt old parties.
Great snakes! What is the democratic
party that it should come counting the popu-
lists? The half-masked servant of the gold
bugs! The Wall street "straddle bug and
rake! The painted prostitute that for a
year past has been lying lin every sense)
with the John Sherman crowd! 1t was
placed in power by secret Wall street in
tluence and funds. by platform antiquities
and lying campaign promises by disgusted,
discouraged republicans of the working class,
by playing the gold bug act in the east and
the free silver act in the west and south.
What did it do as soon as it elected the
pig-headed, bull-necked Grover, the man
with a mugwump-endorsed, civil-scrvice-
reform - character? Elected on a plat
form pledged ito the coinage OF
both gold and silver, without dis
elimination against either metal or charge
for mintage." its first administrative act
was to call a special session Of con-
gress to entirely close the minis against
silver. and so corruptible were it's leaders,
so great the power of Cleveland pie and the
banking fraternity's ubiquitous political in
fuence Campaign funds), that the damnable
deed was done. The republicans helped to
do 1t. of course, but the democratic presi-
dent demanded it at Wall streets behest,
and over half of the democratic members in
the house, the popular branch of the legisla,
tive body, repudiated the national platform
and struck down half of what the last demo,
cratic convention called the STANDARD money
of the country" That one act, joining
hands with the republican leaders and
usurers to cut off the peoples supply of
money and double debts and make perpetual
slaves of the people, should make the demo,
cratic party a kissing and a by-word, a hor-
ror and a loathing to the people.
But that was not all. 1t in national plat
form denounced the robber trusts and mon
opoly combinations of capital, and said:
1--WE demand the rigid enforcement of laws
made to prevent and control them, together
with such further legislation in restraint of
their abuses as experience may show to be
necessary" And then, in the interest OF
the trusts and corporations, Cleveland APP
pointed for his attorney general a man who
in his annual report declares:
1.-The United States cannot limit private
citizens in their rights to accumulate or con-
troll property; nor prescribe the price at
which property shall be sold; nor pass Grim
inal laws about the intent and purpose OF
citizens in buying and selling"
And he in the same report adopts as MS
own this Judge Jackson definition of republi-
can anti-monopoly:
Monopoly as prohibited by the statute
means an exclusive right in one party,
coupled with a legal restriction or restraint
upon some other party which prevents the
latter from exercising or enjoying the same
right"
That is the sort Of sham antitrust and
anti-monopoly party we are asked to fuse
with; the kind that makes bonds for wall
street and the people, and which defines
monopoly to be something we haven't got.
1t is an anything and everything, free silver,
single gold standard, wildcat banks, bonds
and promises Tor all, SOiuDuB, sllduuiepu5,
deficit--for-greenback--
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES paper, sucker
catching, Observation-Disclosures, ana
the devil behind it. which we are asked to
trade with. 49,.
And Just look at the democracy in this
state. 1t Is simply republican machine No,
2, run by Sterling Morton, lobe Castor, jim
Boyd and a lot Of railroad, Wall street, adj
ministration pie biters. In the last conVen-
ton but one it was for free silver, and
elected Bryan on that platform. In the last
convention it turned goldbug to please Cleve-
land and get the postoffices, and threw Bryan
down and trampled him in the mud by a
vote of three to one against sustaining MN
in his course, a course marked out lot MN
by the previous convention.
And how did the democrats vote In the
last election? The returns showed that IN
Otoe, Cass and other counties where they
were strong enough to elect their entire
county tickets they elected their county OIL
Gals, and on the state ticket, instead Oh
voting for their own candidate, Irvine, or
for our candidate, they threw their strength
to the republican railroad candidate, Harrl-
son. They, in fact, elected Harrison ana de-
feated Holcomb.
To the republican party with all your
fusion. We are not in 1t. We can Just
thresh the earth with you both, and we are
Just going to do it. If the honest rank and
file democrats and the Calhoun, Bryan,
Broadly sort of men haven't got sense enough
to come over to the populists, where they be-
long, they can just literally go to the dogs
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