The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-03
VERY COLD FROST
PREVENTS FUSION,
Recess for Meditation by
the Three-Headed
Committee.
ALL EYES ON THE THIRD
After the Democrats Nominate
the Fusionists Will Do
Something.
JOY OF THE RAILROAD MEN.
Government Ownership of Public
Utilities VIII Not Be an Issue
in the Campaign.
JOY OF THE RAILROAD MEN.

The joint fusion committee of Demo
Gratis, Populists and silver men have found
that the world is not going we'll with
them. The refusal of Monteith and Nc
Glashan, Populists, and OF Kelly and Mad
dux, Democrats, to withdraw has discon.
certed them very much for it has dis
arranged the slate materially.
The Democrats will not be able to de-
liver the goods in the districts represented
by Kelly and Maddux, and the Populists
will not be able to keep their agreement
with the Democrats in the districts repre-
sented by Monteith and McGlashan. The
detection of the four candidates, however.
will be good excuse for the Democracy
failing to keep its promise to the Popu-
lists, that it would give them three Con-
gres smen, and 1t now looks as If all the
Populists would get would be two, and
those two in strong Republican districts
where there is not the remotest chance of
winning.
The shrewd Democratic managers would
rather put up Populist TO be slaughtered
in Republican district than Democrat
because i'll that event the loss of prestige
would fall upon the Peoples party and not
upon the Democratic party.
The whole object OF the fusion on the
Democratic side is to obtain the support
of the Populists of California for as many
Democratic Congressman as possible. The
Southern Pacific Company is helping the
fusionists by insisting that Monteith shall
be kept out of the fight, because Monteith
has fought that company and Coils p.
Huntington most bitterly on behalf OF the
railroad strikers.
IL is, also, in an undetermined way,
through paid agents, keeping up the silver
craze among the Populists, whose poIitI-
cal belief, most inconsistency, is fiat
money and who have stultified themselves
in the mad rush for Office, thus showing
that they are no more unselfish or purer
of motive than the corrupt parties of
which their orators are in the habit OF
speaking. Another reason why the South
ern Pacific Company is DESTROYS of keep
ing the silver madness among the Popu-
lists at it's height is because the Govern
ment ownership and management of rail-
roads will not be made an issue during
this campaign.
Fiatism. direct legislation, proportional
representation, the initiative and the refer
endum, Government ownership of public
utilities-all those important principles
Cor which Populism is struggling-have
peen cast aside under the hypnotic spell of
Senator Stewart, a millionaire and a
grinder of the faces of the poor in their
own sweat and in the lust for office.
To the Populists the Democratic Con-
gressmen are pledged only for the free
coinage of silver. No Democratic Con-
gresham Will vote for any of those prin-
ciples of which they are SO proud.
The leaders of the Peoples party of this
State are not at all in touch with the great
mass of their constituents. This TACT is
clearly shown by the attitude of nine
tenths of the Populist organs. which are
opposed to sacrificing the principles oil
the party, even for a temporary political
advantage.
T. V. Gator, the Peoples party nominee
for United States Senator from California,
has fallen very much in popularity. He
seems at present to be more interested in
and more closely connected with the Sill
yer party than he is with the Peoples
party. But he says that he should not be
singled out, for John s. Dore advocated
the nomination of Bryan in the st. Louis
convention, and he does not see why Mr..
Dore should not bear part of the burden
upon his broad shoulders.
The fusion committee resumed its con-
| ference at IL O'clock yesterday morning,
and after talking over the puzzllng matter
adjourned until next Saturday afternoon
at l O'Clock. They passed resolution to
the effect that they believed it would be
no more than equal justice 20 all the can
didates to wait until after the Democrats
made their nominations in the Third Con-
gressional District next Friday, and that
they therefore would not proceed with the