The San Francisco call., 1896-10-06
KICKING HARD
Movement on Foot to Repudiate
the Legislative Fusion
Candidates.
Honest Populists Realizing That They
Have Been Sold to Democratic
Bosses.

Honest Populists are doing the high
kicking act and their bosses are laughing
in their sleeves at them.
Gator, Buckley and Rainey have put
the party into their pockets, and have but
toned up their coats so that it can't es-
cape.
G. P. Huntington is very much pleased
with the work OF his lieutenants, who
have succeeded in bottling the anti
railroad sentiment for another four years.
The other corporations opposed to the
Governmental ownership and control OF
public utilities are equally as we'll satisfied
with the success of fusion brought about
by Gator and his Democratic allies, for it
has left them two enemies less to fight.
The honest Populists, the sturdy mid
dle-of-the. road men, are pleased also,
though for an opposite reason. What they
had predicted when the silver czars cap
tured the Peoples Party Convention in
st. Louis and frittered away the honest
Omaha platform, has come to pass, and
they are proclaimed true prophets. Flu
sion has placed Populism in the hands OF
its enemies ana its destruction has been
wrought as surely as though it were a liv-
ing being and the butchers knife were at
its throat.
Populism had clean arguments till now.
Its leaders were believed to be honest nd
Its ranks were pure in heart, but the greed
in the breast of political jobber for pos
siple United States Senatorshlp, and the
hope in the bosom of another man, not
cunning enough to be jobber, for an ex-
pected collectorship of the port, have done
in California what the greed and treachery
of the Sockless Simpsons, the Sockful Al
lens and the Cyclone Davises have accom-
plished in the Nation.
These honest Populists who had stood
aloof, bewildered and amazed, when the
garment of their principles was divided
among Buckley, Rainey, Huntington and
Gator; the farmer with sunburned cheeks
and freckled, calloused hands wondering
why he was always poor and why the City
man who sold his produce could afford to
smoke fine cigars and drink the worlds
best wines; the mechanic working on
half time or not working at all while the
roof over his head was growing a crop of
rent for the landlord, increasing day by
day-all these are beginning to awake. The
spell of Svengali Stewart is broken. The
silver sheen on the desert has been reached
at last and found to be path of white
aIkali blazing in the sun and bIistering
the hope of the thirsty traveller.
a revolution is impending, and Buckley
and Rainey and Gator and Huntington
will soon learn that the first trick in
euchre does not make the game.
The first movement of the revolt will be
the bolting of the Gator Buckley-R Rainey
legislative ticket in this City. Populists
are quietly talking among themselves and
are preparing to repudiate the whole legis-
latiVe ticket from this City, with the ex-
ception of P. l.. Archibald and Calvin Ew-
ing. candidates for State Senators, both of
whom are Populists.
They will also throw overheard the
municipal ticket, com posed of Buckley
lambs, and will support only the few
Populists who were thrown into the
Buckley dough as Peoples party Ieaven,
but who were not sufficiently potent to
leaven the whole Buckley lump, the
aforesaid lump being composed of more
than ordinarily tough stuff.
At the head and front of it all stands
Thomas V. Gator, who is Gator man
first, last and all the time. With an un-
scrupulousness worthy of fat Caesar,
Gator has wrecked his party in order that
he may step upon its ruins into the seat
of a United States Senator.
Gator is modest, that is with a certain
kind OF modesty. For instance: