The San Francisco call., 1898-05-17
THE PROPOSED STATE FUSION.

HE Populists feeling their oats They have
 many of the county officers all over the State
 In Alameda they have the best ofhces-Sherf Treasurer and Assessor Elsewhere they did quite well in the election of 1894, and find themselves in a position to raise funds by assessment of their oficc-hoders. This levy ordered at the last meeting of their State committee, which took up the subject of fusion with the Democrats and silver Re pubcans the State county and Congressional tickets This question brought struggle and convulsion that lasted from p. m. Tuesday to 23o a. m. Wednesday, with the result that 1t agreed to fuse provided the Fresno example were followed and the other two parties to this political polygamy adopted the particular expression of Popusm known the Oregon platform.
 The committee declared that this is good year to tone up on principles, and that any union amalga- nation of the forces of reform must be upon the Populist platform
 Quoting exact language, the committee say that the PopuIist party demand of such other political forces desiring unity of action that said parties by their proper conventions first agree and adopt identical or platform of principles which all candi- dates desiring the support of any of said parties must accept and that adoption of such common platform must precede any and all nominations"
 The committee then ordered referendum to all Populist county conventions upon this question::
 there California in 1898 with any other party parties for the nomination of joint ticket, provided that such parties shall first agree to the following platform of princples?
 The platform follows, and is made up of all the Populist ideas fiat money and scoop-shovel distrbu- ton of the direct to the people by the Federal Government being the most prominent.
 It remains 70 be whether the Democratic party of California will surrender its individuality and be content trot along under the Popuist wagon. The silver Republicans the political mules of the State with pride of ancestry but hope of posterity and may be glad to eat thstles, even in the Populis corral.
 The amusing part of thesituaton thatif the Democ racy chase office through such fusion it surrenders
 its identity, and though it pray toward Jefferson and Jackson it will be in the fix of the Christians whose conversion to Mahomet had been perfected, by the Abrahamic rite and all, who caught counting their beads again. Their Mahometan brethren laughed at them for they had been sealed to the Prophet and were wasting their prayers.
 No matter what the result may be one must respect the Populists They have seen and smelled the car rion-ke scandals in Democratic Board of Super visors and Board of Education in this city They have seen the ferry clock trying to get hand behind its back by force of example set by the liar Dor Commission. They have seen the exposure of the jute-bag manipulation by the Prison Directors They have seen the rainbow of Democratic promise, and where it touched the earth they have found cor rupton SO vile that the buzzards fly from it to the garbage dumps to get breath of fresh air. and they don't propose to keep such company unless it is put under bonds of some kind, and from their stand point what better promise of reform this particu- lar reform force make than by swallowing the Pop ulist platform?