The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-29

uliSt newspapers have never gwen one
good word 10 a Republican official.
Their bit -,lu.ss blinds Iii,-ln. ] h-'
state of Kansas that dares mention
favorsBbly hl. name.
And their bullheadedness. 1t Is
never possible to change Populist by
argument. You may answer all his
arguments coInjnetely-he will c,cse
his mouth and walk away -silenced,
but a Populist still.
In this county and in others all over
Kansas the Republican papers have
pointed out to the Populists repeatedly
that the Democrats always vote FOR
the Democrats on a Populist fusion
ticket but never for the Populists while
the Populists vote always for both
Democrats and Populists. 1t was for
tunate for the Democrats that the Re-
publican papers had not made the dis
covery the POpuliSts would themselves
have taken the Democrats TO task in
no light manner. There would have
been row in which the Populists
would certainly have thrown the Dem
ocrats overheard. But the Populists
to combat the Republicans and TO be
simply bullheaded, have allowed the
Democrats TO bambooZle them this way
every election without even entering
a protest. But this is not all by any
means. The Populists have always
believed that the Republican newspa-
pers of Kansas affected to like fusion.
The Populists have thought that the
Kansas Republican newspapers dread
ed fusion and for that reason tried to get
the Populists to drop it. by claiming 1t
was a good thing for the Republican
party. As a matter Of fact the Republi-
can newspapers do believe that fusion
is fatal to both Democrats and Popu-
lists. They have urged it upon the
Democrats and Populists purposely and
in sincerity. 1t has already done it's
work. 1t has disorganized Populism;
in Kansas it has wiped out Democracy.
Kansas Republicanism no longer has
two great enemies. 1t has one, one
part of which is the Democratic party
with a presidential candidate but no
following in the state; the other part
Populism with a candidate for vice
president who disowns his own plat
form.
Then there is Populist buncombe.
This consists in lot of wild tales in
regard to subsidized press and the pur-
chase of our great statesman; andalong
with it the quiet, undetermined insist
ence that socialism is correct. Popu-
lists do not talk socialism to other par
tisans. But when once man Is in the
Populist party he is asked to indOrse
without all the Topolobampo and al
truistic schemes that ever floated
through PETERS brain. The true-blue
Populist really believes that socialism
and paternafsm in the land is about
to dawn and he never suspects that 1t is
given him by his leaders; when he
misses it in his national platform he
never fears that his leaders may be
also. for his bullheadednesS SuStainS
him in the conviction that those leaders
cannot be; and when any other man
attempts to point out to him the folly
OF the Populist buncombe promise, his
bitterness holds him true.
So that with bitterness, bullheaded-
ness and buncombe few arguments
find their way to the Populists. We
can only wait. Populism is losing
something Of bitterness, something of
bullheadednesS, something of bum
combe every year and, at last, by attri-
ton all three will disappear entirely,
and Populism itself with them.