The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-29
THEIR TERRIBLE MISTAKE
Platform Isf Fusion Forces Is :AgaiE
ROundly Mixed.


The Minneapolis Messenger and many
other papers are taking up the fusion
platform in Sedgwick county. The Mes
senger says:
Last week the Populists and Demo-
Gratis of Sedgwick county met in conven-
ton in Wichita and passed the following
resolutions:
Resolved. That we now demand that
the war with our former allies, the Fill
pinos, cease. and we condemn the Fill
Pine war of conquest as a disgrace TO
American civilization and a wanton sac
rifice of our brave soldiers and waste
of the peoples money on the part of the
Mckinley administration"
There were some old soldiers in that
convention who remembered the attitude
OF the copperheads during the civil war.
and one of them, Mr.. John Fisher. who
for years has swallowed unquestioningly
everything that the Populists had put in
their platform, arose and demanded: 81
would like to know, Mr.. Chairman. IL
that platform means to haul down the
American flag in the Philippines?" Mr..
Fisher probably thought OF another con-
vention which met in Chicago on the 18th
Of August, 1864, when the armies of the
Union were everywhere fiercely strug-
Cling with the armies of the disloyal
southern Confederacy. At that conven-
ton on the Goth of August, 1854. a plat
form was adopted which denounced the
Gcr as failure and demanded that the
awful slaughter of our loyal troops
should be made OF no avail; that the
fruits of victories that had been dearly
bought at the price OF rivers Of blood
which flowed from our brave and loyal
Non should be surrendered in dishonor:
that the soil baptized by the blood Of
orr soldiers should become the abiding
place Of treason; that the living should
ignoIIiniously surrender the cause FOR
which the dead had died. This is what
the Infamous resolution of the Chicago
Democratic convention meant. and he
equally infamous resolution passed by the
PoEUiist Democratic convention held in
Wichita last week means. and no more.
no less. In the following resolution. pass
I'D by the Democratic national conven-
ten at Chicago on the 30th OF August
you can see the same trademark OF trea-
son that branded as disIoyal and IN
American the resolution passed by he
Wichita convention. The following is the
Chicago resolution:
Resolved. That this convention does
explicitly declare as the sense Of the
American people that. after four years
OF failure 10 restore the Union by the ex-
pertinent Of war. during which, under the
pretense Of military necessity Of a war
power higher than the constitution, the
constitution itself has been disregaried
in every part. and public liberty and pri-
vate right alike trodden down. and the
material prosperity Of the country es-
sentially impaired. justice. humanity. lib
erty and the public welfare demand tina:
iIr mcdiate hostilities cease. with a view
To an ultimate convention OF all The 1
states. or o-her peaceable means to the 1
erd that. at the earliest practicable r,t- /
ment peace may be restored on the hasIs |
e; the feders' union e all he sta g.
The resolution passed by the Demo /
cratic-Popuiist convention at w.chita |
shows the delegates who passed that /
resolution TO be the lineal political de-
scendants Of the coHperheads who pissed /
the above disloyal resolution IN he Dem
ocTatlc convent oVer qIar.zr Of a /
century asn. IL Is not 10 be ,Eoa,lcreI a.
that Nj Fisher looked ba K nvee The 4
years that have passed since thcn. ziih I
memory calling uD before him the faces 1
Of those dead comrades VINO died Tor ,h=
Of the government and the
honor Of the faS. and demanded. -. that
platform meant to haul down the srasri-
can naS- Whether Popu.Ist. Dsrnocra;
OF Republican the loyal men who wprs
vita Grant at shiloh and fsIlerE~d sher-
nan 70 the sea- OF were with Hooker on
the bloody heights Of Lsoekout Nc unsaan.