The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-09-28
Secretary Of State Brown Declares the
Fusion Ticket Can Have No Place
on the Ballot
The MiddIe-of-the-Road Faction of the
Peoples Party Will Be Given Of
ficiaI Recognition.

| was Jointly agreed to make the following
recommendations with reference to the
joint state railroad commission and
board of equalization nominations for Of
to-wit:
THAT the Silver Republicans should
have one supreme court Judge and the
clerk of the supreme court
THAT the Peoples party should have
the lientenant-governor, controller, su-
perintendent of public instruction and
the member of the board of railroad
commissioners from the Third district,
zation.
THAT the Democratic party should
have the rest of the state ticket, two
members of the board of railroad COM
missioners and three members of the
board of equalization.
"And we, your committee, further rec
ommend that those candidates, other
than nominee for governor of the Pop
ulist party and other than those speci-
fled and apportioned to it, SHALL as soon
as nominated, place their designations in
due form in the hands of the Populist
committee on conference, in order that
said committee may legally effect the
plan of party union agreed upon
THAT the two conference committees
be authorized by the respective parties to
fill vacancies as required by law
The delegates to the Peoples party fu-
sion convention failed to comply with
the terms of the "call," under which they
were elected, in not nominating a full
ticket There are several vacancies upon
said ticket, the nominations having been
made one minute and the designations
soon following.
They violated the cali in ignoring
the instructions governing an identical
Or common PLATFORM" upon which all
three parties were to stand. Specific in
structions, agreed to by all concerned,
were violated by the 26 Of the 80 dele
gates from the city and county of San
Francisco in voting against the nomina-
tion of straight Peoples party ticket.
Had one-half of said number remained
true to their trust, the integrity of said
party would have been preserved
The result of the labors of said con-
ventiOn was the same as if the three fu-
sion parties mentioned herein had met in
one convention and Jointly named a state
ticket
The attempt is made to present a
state ticket with candidates thereon rep
resenting three separate and distinct DO
litical parties, whose platforms are in
harmonious and conflicting, under
union or fusion name.
Under the fusion agreement heretofore
mentioned herein, and adopted by said
Peoples party state convention, the fol-
lowing persons were to resign, and did
in most cases, if not all, prior to the pre-
sentatiOn for filing of the certificate of
nomination made by the Peoples party
fusion, to-wit:
A. B. Kline, secretary of state
A. R. Sprague, treasurer.
G. W. HOyle, attOrney-general.
G. H. Rogers, serveyor-general.
Percy E. Preble, state printer.
Will E. White, board of equalization.
Geo. Thresher, board of equalization.
N. w. Motheral, board of equalization.
Geo. B. Dean, railroad commissioner.
Notwithstanding said designations, the
names of the aforementioned persons
appear upon the certificates of nomina-
tion sought to be filed by said Peoples
party fusion, as. the nominees of said
party. The fact that the designations of
said persons are in the hands of the COM
mittee appointed to receive them, oper-
ates, in my judgment as resignation, and
therefore invalidates the certificates.
1t is my opinion that the persons named
are not nominees Of political party, nor
should their names>appear in any certin-
cate presented for fling in this Office
When the Peoples party assembled in
convention, July IL and 13, 1898, and
permitted persons foreign to said party
and representing two other political or
ganizations to participate in it's proceed
ings, select some-of Its nominees, and,
by combining, destroy its party identity,
the delegates abandoned the trust re-
posed in them by the true representatives
Of the party, the people who elected