Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-03


THE SCANDILOuS FUSION CAMPAIGN.
The desperation of the popocratic
Tammany, which is running the fusion
machine in this county, is disclosed in
the tactics it is pursuing in the present
campaign.
Instead of doing anything to convince
people that the candidates on the con-
glomerate ticket are deserving of sup,
port or are in any way entitled to the
votes of citizens interested in good gov
ernment economically administered, the
fusion speakers and organs are devotinS
themselves entirely to attempts to black
wash republican candidates and to make
believe that the republican party is in
sad state of disorganization.
Unless we mistake the temper of the
people these uncalled-for attacks will
react upon the fusion candidates in
whose behalf they are made and the
brazen falsehoods uttered in order to
array one nationality against another
and to arouse religious and race preju-
dice in the hope of creating defections
in republican ranks will fail utterly of
their purpose.
Analyzed in it's elements the popo-
cratic campaign, as waged so far, may
be summarized as follows:
1. The general attack upon private
regulations of republican candidates
based on wild statements entirely de-
void of truth, unsupported except by
men whose words would not be taken by
any reputable person. Every assault of
this kind has been promptly refuted aud
the bold fakes exposed Still further
libels upon republican candidates are
said to be Matching, but the public is
forewarned and will place no more ere
dence in eleventh-hour popocratic roor-
backs than it has in the exploded am
munition already set off.
2. An attempt to drag into the present
campaign issues and candidates. in no
way involved. The local election next
week will decide only who is to hold the
county offices for the next two years,
and no one will be bamboozled into the
belief that it will determine in advance
the outcome Of next years city election
or next years county election.
3. An effort to array factions of the re-
publican party against one another. To
this end stories have been concocted
about alleged dscord inside the repub-
lican organization, when the fact is the
republican party was never more har-
monious than tAlay.
4. Appeals to race prejudice. This in
cludes the eXhortation of negro voters
to take up as grievance against the re-
publican party an unfortunate occur
renee in which a cOlored man lost his
life at the hands of some unknown as
sailant, in which no political element
can be injected. 1t also includes the at
tempt to stir up the Bohemian voters to
take up the personal grievance of a dis
appointed office seeker of that nation
ality.
5. The intrusion of religious bigotry,
disclosed in the effort to raise an anti
Semitic agitation by inhammatory let
ters to Hebrew voters over the sigma
lures of paid emissaries who resort to
brazen falsehoods in order to play upon
religious sentiment.
Such warfare cannot appeal to the in
telligent and thinking people of any
creed, class or color. On the contrary
1t should disgust all intelligent voters
and impel them to administer Il rebuke
to the men responsible for it by burying
the fusion candidates so deep that no
such scandalOus campaign will ever be
repeated.