The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-07-07
FUSION IN NEBRASKA.
lit HAS BEEN A BLESSING TO
THE STATE.
Ecized the State From the Clutches OF
the Plutccratic plundcrCrs, and Infused
New Life and Hope Into It's Citizen
ship-DifTcrences and Harmony.
ONLY GOOD Has COME.

ONLY GOOD HAS COME.
The greater portion of the citizen
ship of Nebraska do not regret the fact
that the fusionists have been and arc
now in control Of their commonwealth.
Passing events have shown them that
only good has come from the combina-
ton of elements Which go to make up
the fusion party, and the people rca-
SCI it ont that they rs wcll as the state
are much better of than they would
have been had the republican party
continued in charge Of affairs.
Every time the people think OF that
Sc Co,CGo CT $1Co.G eco "~suspcndcd ac-
count" on the books Of the state treas,
urcr and state auditor. (Which repre-
scnts republican stealingS) they thank
goodness the rascals wcrc turned Il
and find themselves wondering how
much more the party that so hates re
pudiation and bad money managed 10
swine in the years it had contro,.
1t comforts them now to know their
money is being handled by an honest
W VI .. llst tilhl tiitll lhiNlllISN
is being transacted wisely and proper
". 1t is always pleasant to know that
ones affairs are being conducted on
the square and in an intelligent
nCr.
The day that saw the triumph of flu
sion witnessed the dawn of brighter
days for Nebraska, Notwithstanding
fhn ,,,>p1lt,,, ~, J,.1,,nl {1,,tr ,,,,,.
would mean the utter ruin of the state
and the states credit. Two years un-
der fusion governor most materially
changed the minds Of some of those
who had opposed his election. and the
switch in sentiment resulted in Il per
feet tornado of ballots that swept into
power a line of fusion official pic1gcn
to promote the growth of the state and
its treasury and not to rctard either.
The pledge has been kept, and Ne
hraSka has since that time held up her
head and walked erect along with her
sister states, sublimcly and blissfully
happy to know she was in charge Of
honest men and no longer in the com
pany Of thicving treasury lootcrs.
Ncbraslia's pride is not vain pride.
Thc'citizcnship Of the state has a right
to be proud that they are better of
than they used TO be. Familiarity
breeds contempt, it is said. and it is
not improbable that republican CONT
nulty in office for so many years bred
such Il contempt for the state and its
people they had no conscience when
dipping their hands into the public
money-bag. They had so long beer at
the public tcat they had become expert
mixers, and if givcn time enough
would have succeeded in taking more
than is represented by the suspended
account" The party of Hanna had
been so long in the state house the
officials concluded they had u life joE
Of it and proceeded on the idea that the
stealing and shortage could be passed
along from generation to generation
and need never be known until the
judgment day.
Their utopian dreams were rudely
shattered by the relentless hand OF
fate in the guise of an aroused and in,
dlgnant poPu!ace. and it took the in.
generation Of BARLEY and the narrow
escape of Moore TO awaken them to I;
realization of the fact that a public
office is a public trust and not n private
snap. Any official, of whatever politi.
cal faith. who bctrays the trust rcposcd
in him by a con1iding public, where it
is Intentionally 6 done, deserves the
s%cvcrent punishment that can be in.
fiicted n shonld be the object of
the public's EXTREMIST and most TN
mitigated contempt.
1T Is needless to recount the instances
in which fusion has proved beneficial
to the state. Like the list in j. pub.
lie sale bill, they're "too numerous to
MENTION"
We do not not desire to claim that
fusion control has been absolutely
pure and indebted, not at all. Human
beings are human beings although
some are worse than others). and all
humans are liable to go wrong But
we do claim that the wrongs committed
by the fusionists have not been of a
criminal charactor nor of the kind to
u others to suffer for their sins.
AS a whole, fusion control of the
state having been ever so much better
than they had previously enjoyed, the
people will never consent to II return
to republican ideas and financial meth
DDS.