The record-union., 1896-09-17
FUSION WITH CONFUSION AUGURS
OUR SUCCESS.

When Democrats and Populists frater-
nally combine,
And round each other pleasantly their
loving cords entwine,
And plot and scheme by fusion Grand
Old Party to defeat,
A motley band of socialists is seemingly
| complete;
/ But an adage of old science we surely
must transfix
When we find that oil and water easily
| may mix.
Now. when oil is turned to acid, and
water will not wet,
The chemists rule for mixing is of little
use, you bet;
And this psychic law of forces we cannot
realize,
For reason is outwitted when thus placed
before our eyes;
And II reason is at discount, and figures
spend their force,
The rules of our arithmetic are lost be-
| yond recourse.
Right is wrong, or wrong is right, as
| fancy may avow it,
| And error leads away from truth If you
| but allow 1t.
A burlesque or anomaly may sometimes
| lead aStray
| Like ventrilouuiaI semblance of clear
| voices far away,
Or the Juggler's neat deception may show
you something queer
| While both your eyes are open and your
vision seeming clear;
But the Democratic-Pop., or the Popu-
Democrat
VIII puzzle you more surely just to know
where he is at"
But. look! the battle RACES 'twixt new
| Democrats and Pops,
While fusion works at one end, at the
! other end 1t drops,
And Bryan mixed with Sewall by Pops
will not be taken,
Nor Watson-Bryan compound by Demo
| Gratis be shaken.
A hybrid combination with a. twisted
| double tail
Is freak beyond acceptance, and hence
it can't prevail;
And the young silv'ry orator along the
shallow Platte
Is sowing to the wind god while he's talk
ing thro' his hat.
The golden-rod Democracy put Palmer at
their head
| Though silver-plated Democrats don't
know that they are dead:
But this g1lt-edge side issue, while scat
tered out SO thinly,
Can only aid the cause that will sure
elect Mckinley
! Vermont has shown a tocsin to be rung
throughout the land
BY a forty thousand bombsheH which all
can understand.
Then, again, comes a message from the
sea-girt shores Of Maine
And a wall from Sewall's shipyards in
requiem refrain.
To show In measured numbers how pulses
now are beating,
| And throw out their signal lights to all
the people greeting.
And may fourth Of next November the
| joyful message bring
/ Or gold-embroidered currency, where sill
Yer IS not king.
Protection Is the issue, while free silver
is the fad;
Protect our manufactures and our work
men will be glad
Free trade and its free coinage twin are
mongrels Slmon-pure
| With Demo-Pops, their lordly dads, to
make their claims secure,
AS though free coinage at the mints could
make our silver free,
| And pour it down in clouds of wealth
from mountain to the sea-
Without regard to industries to COM
merce, or to trade,
IF we can only buy cheap goods by pauper
labor made;
And fiat without promise is the method
To let the lordly bondholders just whistle
for their gold.
| Republicans have had success whenever
placed IN power,
AS shown by the emergencies in ev'ry try
ing hour;
And now's the time to reinstate the reign
! When times will be more prosperous and
noisy jars will cease.
| SO let US on and upward. by aid of speech
and song,
Protect our Nations honor by our voices
loud and strong,
And with country's life at stake, let's fail
not to remember
| To be round in voting time the third day
Let Bryanites and Popocrats cry silver till
they're hoarse,
Wen boost our standard bearers up right
onward in their course,
| With bimetallic motto and protection for
a shield,
And on the said election day We'll hold the
Republican electors as the leaders in the
van,
All singing loud hosannas-our MoKin-
ley is the man! w. 3.
| san Francisco. Sent. 1895