The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-05-11
OREGON FULL OF BOLTS
A ROW ON BOTH SIDES-DEMOCRATS
BOLT THE FUSION TICKET AND
DENOUNCE THE PLATFORM
Call 1T an Inault to All Intelligent
DemOcrats-They Want No Fusion
Unless the Democrats Can
Boss the Job.

Unless the Democrats Can
Boss the Job.
The following is the ticket of the Ore
| gon Populists. With the exception of a
| few paragraphs which pertain to state
affairs their platform is that adopted by
the party at Omaha and St. Louis This
is the ticket of the genuine Populists
who would not be dominated by office
holding and office-hunting bosses.
ADDRESS,
TO the Peoples Party voters of the
State of Oregon:
I'VE, the Peoples party, in convention
assembled, issue this, an open address,
and ask that every true and loyal Popu
list give it fair and careful consideration.
Whereas, Upon call of the state cen
trail committee Of the Peoples party Of
Oregon for the state convention to be
held in Portland, Ore, March %, 1885,
| to nominate full state and district
ticket to be voted for June 6, 1898, the
representation met together; and,
Whereas, Upon the assembling of the
state convention, it was found that the
convention had been packed by office
holders, office-seekers- state, district and
county-and OUT OF TnE WHOLE
NUMBER OF DELEGATES, TO-WIT,
215, THERE WE'RE 1874 OFFICE
HOLDERS, CANDIDATES AND MEN
SEEKING NOMINATIONS IN STATE.
DISTRICT AND COUNTY, we. therefore.
charge that it was un-Populistic. and
that it was contrary to the creed of our
party for office-holders and ofice-seek
ers to control the use of conventions and
campaigns"
FROM these reports we see that of
10 delegates chosen to represent the
people OF Oregon 1874 were ofice-holders
and open aspirants for office. and that
OUT OF this number only 81 proved loval
TO their constituency when in conven-
ton assembled.
marrow must be the view of anv man
or set OF men who will barter awav for
temporary position for himself the vast
and vital principles laid down in ihe
omaha and st. Louis Platforms and
narrower still must be the views Of 2
leading journal or party which ho,ts tic
ticket because II Democrats cannot domi-
nate 80 Populists.
Inc Portland Dispatch, the leading
democratic journal of Oregon. HAVING
pleaded long and loud for fusion If +ho
reform elements of Oregon swears nv ev-
erythlng fat and greasy that it will not
now support the fusion ticket. In Orc
gon there were cast at the last st,+o
election 1000 Democratic votes and So
ooo fopullst votes; hence this union f,,-
sion convention stood II to 33 The
democratic journal, it seems, had honed
to see the tail wagging the dog # de-
nounces the union platform as rank
Popul1st platform. To have given salts.
1actlon to the Democrats the 80 Pom.
lists would have to desert their nartv
abandon their principles, stem unon
bourbon platform, allow the II to domi-
nate the 80. dole out the pie on the Demo.
cratic plan, take unto themselves all tho
spolls, save here and there a. constable
and justice of the peace. This journal
depiores the thought of this fusion tick
ct succeeding. 1t says the state admin
lstrat1on will be in their hands.
If the Popullst doctrines are to Tho
minds OF the Democrats heresy and rof
why ask the Populists to unite with
them? Here we have in plain print
Democratic views of fusion expressed l,v
leading Democratic journal. which
when properly interpreted, means moth
Ing more nor less than a command 10
fall In to elect Democrats to Office who
denounce and despise Populists and Pom
ulist principles.
Whilst the union ticket to which thi.
Democratic journal objects and rejects is
a miscarriage of reform and utterly nm
worthy OF the support Of sincere voters,
the utterances Of the Democratic organ
are none the less indicative OF the fact
that the Democratic party is opposed to
the eternal truths embraced in the Popu-
list platform. Here it Is, read it and let
every fusion Populist of California pause
and reflect:
''The Portland Dispatch is a Demo
cratic paper that is exclusively political.
1t is not golbdug sheet, either; on the
contrary is a Bourbon Democratic pa
per strictly after the fashion of the Chi
cago platform, and is edited by that vet
eran free silver Democrat Anthony Mol
ter. Here is what it says:
From and ever since we became
voter we have readily and Loyalty s..rr.-
ported the action of every Democratic
convention, state and national. We have
never faltered nor hesitated in this re-
spect, and it is with no ordinary regret
that we are now compelled to condemn
and disapprove the action Of the late con-
vention and refuse to indorse it's action.
We had hoped that the better judgment
| of the delegates would prevail and that