The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-14
KEAION KEEPS LOSING
Latest Detection Is the State
Register.
IN A SIGNED ARTICLE
Editor Cravens RepudiateS the
Whole Fusion Deal.
IN A SIGNED ARTICLE

Guthrie, o. T, Aug. 13.-(speciaL)-Th
latest disheartening feature Of Judge Kea-
toms fusion campaign is the desertion of
the State Register, the editor and pro-
signed editorial, repudiates the deal
through which the Populist party was
sold out and delivered over to the Demo-
Gratis. The State Register was founded
by Leo Vincent and with John Aliens
newspaper the Peoples Voice, has been
regarded as the leading exponent Of Pop
ulism on the East Side. In his review of
the situation which led to the reputation
of fusionism, Editor Cravens says:
Il have found that the boosters of this
fusion business are men WHO, as a rule
are IN Office or want office; men who do
not hesitate 20 lie on any occasion to de-
ceive the unsuspecting public. Further I
have found that the honest Populists Of
Logan county, and the territory in gener-
al so far oS I have been able to invest-
gate, are positively against being sold
out and delivered into the Democratic
party. l have yet to find the first man Of
our party, who is not Expecting some office,
or felt himself bound by being in that
convention" who has said ne would sup
port or vote for KeatOn. By this method
of interviewing I have found where the
rank and file Of our party stand today.
l can safely say that I have interviewed
and got the sentiments of more people,
collectively and individually, in Logan
county, than any other one man since the
campaign opened. I have found where
our people stand and l am with them.
This means that in the future the State
Register will endeavor to be a factor Of
weight and value to the PopuHst party
and to the people whose cause We shall
cOnscIenuously and vigorously champion.
II do not believe in fusion in the way
It was thrust upon US. Tom Watson has
the right view of this. He says five years
more of fusion in the north viii wipe out
the Populist party and put every member
of it into the Democratic party-one of
"th cold parties" Populism was born 10
THE turning Gown of Mr. Callahan was
one OF the most shameful barriers and |
sales ever enacted in the history Of poll !
tics. The Democrats boldly proclaimed |
that If Callahan was renominated they |
would bolt fusion, there would be three |
cornered fight" They went into a con-
vention under the guise of fairness-but |
took the precauuon--to tie every Demo- |
cratic delegate up to the unit rule; to |
make him stand up and declare he would /
vote for Keaton always and never sub /
nit to the nomination of Pc pulist. And |
then the Democratic schemers and the |
traitors in our own camp-and we have a |
lit of so-called Popuusts who are but |
kicked into some other party where they |
agree TO the 'two-thrds" rule.
This damnable trick can be realized /
when we say that the record of the vote
showed that Callahan had a clear major
lty OF twenty in the joint convention.
Every one of the 100 Populsts in the con-
Tention were for him. Not only that
the Kingfsher county Democratic delega-
ton was for him, as was the Kay county
Democratic delegation. Add these four
teen Democrats to the list of Callahan
supporters and you see Callahan had in
the joint convention 1873 votes-thirty-
seven more than a majority. And yet ne
was beaten! Why? Because the traitors
to Callahan in and out of the Populist
y
Gus men VINO have been the backbone of
the Populist movement. The declaration
by men on the floor of that convention,
that the Democrats in the Kinghsher del
egation who broke away from gag rule
and voted for Callahan were traitors to
the Democratic party. Went into a joint
convention where one man was to have
the same show as any other and yet the
Democrat who voted for Callahan was a
traitor TO the Democratic party And the
Popuhsts we're duped by this kind of
monstrous proposition.
Was more glaring injustice ever done
on honest man than that done Callahan
by his own and the Democratic party.
This action alone was q fat?footed re-
pudiation of the results of fusion. Had
Callahan been a failure? What more |
could man do in his position? No man
ever did more conscientious work for his
constituency. one more term would
have given the people the benefit of his