The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-06-10


1t is singular, indeed how much interest
the Republicans in this state are showing
in tho matter of fusion. Secretary of State
Brown has taken the matter so seriously
to heart. and is so deeply moved for the
future welfare of the Peoples party that
he has had himself interviewed with view
of pointing out to this party what the result
of fusion has been to it as a state organiza-
ton, and how it will be absorbed by the
Democratic party if it again fuses. Secre-
tary of State Brown exhibits more anxiety
and interest than the members Of the Peo-
pies party. He is afraid that 1t will lose
its legal standing as party by not casting
three per cent. of the votes cast on election
day. He wants them to maintain sepa-
rate organization and put separate ticket
in the field; he does not want this party to
unite its votes with that of the Democratic
and Silver Republican parties. Mr.. Brown
knows what every politician in the state
knows, that fair and honorable coalition
of silver and reform forces will bury the
Republican party out of sight. Mr.. Brown
is more anxious concerning the future well
fare of the Peoples party than some of the
middle-of-the -roaders; in fact there is such
a striking similarity between their argu-
ton that one might mistrust that the Re
publicans of the Brown kind and the middle
of-the-roaders are of the same species.
Some one has been so unkind as to insnuate
that the middle -the-roaders are simply
Republicans in disguise and that they have
got control of the state politics of the Popu-
lists at the irstigation of and for the sole
benefit of the Republican party. Mr. Brown
and his published interview seem to con-
firm this insinuation; and then it must be
remembered that Mr.. Brown is candidate
and that he has been figuring where the
necessary votes are coming from to elect
him. his calculations have furnished him
a shortage as against a union ticket, and
his only hope of election now is to scare the
Populists and prevent coalition.
A coalition of the silver and reform forces
in this county is particularly an assured
fact The state central committees of the
various silver parties may be in control of
the incompetent or mischievous men, or a
state coalition may be mpra cticable or i'm
possible, but all of these facts or fictions
cut no figure in county politics. The execu-
tive committees of the three silver parties
in this county are made up of men who are
neither run by the railroad nor by the
middle-o f-the-roaders, and who conduct the
campaign in the interest of union ticket
rather than in the interests of the Repub-
lican party. Each of the parties in this
county stands ready to unite upon common
ground and make a common fight. 1t is to
be hoped, therefore, that the good under
standing between the parties in this county
may continue to the end and that we shall
have here no such performances we have
been witnessing at the north for the last
month. Undoubtedly an attempt will be
made by the influences which have been at
work at San Francisco to prevent coali-
ton by tricks of early conventions and kin
dred methods but we shall look to the good
judgment and careful foresight of the three
party committees to prevent repetition of
the state exhibition. NPoLITIcUs.