The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-24
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IT WILL BE NATIONAL FUSION.

IT WILL BE NATIONAL FUSION.
The most profound statesmen have
never been able to predict the result OF
rev political eras. No nan, however,
astute has been able 10 foretell the fate
of a party organization. The Demo
cratic party of the United States has
been the party for the conservation OF
old IDEAS and doctrines, and against po-
lltical innovations. 1t has been dead
weight upon the wheels of progression
Il went into war and split blood and
scattered treasure, bankrupted states
and ruined millions financially, in IT'S
attempt 10 annul the declaration that ali
men are born free and equal 1t de-
clared that the negro was neither porn
free nor equal and that therefore ne
must remain a slave. 1t is party OF
nrecedent and conservatism in every
thing. conserving even that kings are
horn with the divine right TO rule ana
the rich with the divine right to Cypress
the poor. The name of the party mas
ever been a denunciatiOn of It's spirit,
repudiation of its record. 1t is party
which never AYERS but always one
which acquiesces and sanctions.
But now is coming the thing which no
statesman has foreseen, is coming the
unexpected and the utter Incompetent
sible. Whether the Populist party is
progressive in its tenetS and demands,
or not. nay be question for discussion
or one Of mere opinion; but that II IS
party Of radical innovations none can
deny. It is for upsetting the existing
order OF things 50 dear 10 the Demo
cratic heart. It is for everything against
which the Democratic party has IN
etinctively set It's face for all time past.
The Pop party wants nothing as Ii is
now. or as il has been. Il is for new
policies. for a rule which can only
come through political revolution. i
narty to become dominant must COM
mand q majority of the people. The
Democratic party holds the men that
the Pop party must have before lt
can become the national director OF af-
fairs. The Pop party has got all of the
Republicans, practically, that it viii
ever get.
What is The Democratic party, the
great body Of its leaders and voters go
ing to do? Ii is out of power for good
as such, and its rank and file are dis
tracted and demoralized. VIII this old
narty of conservatism become and con-
stitute the new party Of innovation and
revolution? We are not a prophet, nor
the son Of a politician, but all the indl-
cations are for national and perman-
ent fusion Of PopulistS and Democrats.
The controlling elements, the leaders OF
the Democratic party north, as well as
south. are for national fusion. Every
local and state convention of these two
parties Of late indicate by their actions
and resolutions, national fusion
There is an element in the Democratic
party. principally made up Of national
and local leaders. that will never go
into fusion. the followers of Grover
Cleveland in the north, VINO would re-
nounce all political affiliations and die
first. For these there Will he left but
one political harbor, and that anything
but satisfactory haven Of rest the
Republican party. Such an aflliation
will be worm-wo0d and gall, but the
Gose will he swallowed. and with it Will
come political humiliation for these.
There will he many of them in the pur-
lieus of Wall street. in New York, Phil
adelphia and Boston, who never VIII
identify themselves with Popism, SO
there VIII be no other place for them eX-
Cept the Republican party, the party of
despised protection for the northern
Democrat, the party of negro equal
fly for the southern Democrat