Lewiston evening teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1900, 1900-09-21

| yah anu the democratic Leaders
VI Tue country 1t appears very ridiculous
LOT them to shed crocodile tears abop, N -
Filpinos being denied selfpover,me,,
rnsion by the populists with the demo.
Gratis Is illogical and dishonorable. If the
democrats have adopted the principles Of
Tue peoples party, they being the major.
ity party it would be the duty of the Don
twists to Join the democratic party and
oisoand their organization, but as thew
nave not adopted our principles all fusion
win them is certainly dishonorable.
FROM Its inception, those populists who
nave opposed fusion have ceptended that
tue fusion movement was designed to de-
s'roy the peoples party organization and
10 deliver the honest populists of this
country to the organized democracy. The
advocates of fusion have stoutly denied
TINS; and, while claiming to be populsts,
nave worked upon the credulity of MANY
honest men, who earnestly desired Ieeis-
ia,ive relief, in order to lead them at the
opportune time into the democratic
party.
AT Kansas City Charles A. Towne
averred that he desired to declare himself
democrat in 1896, but that William
Jennings Bryan and Chairman ZONES
ADVISED him not to do so, but to con-
'ihne to pose as a silver republican SO
as to more effectually lead republicans
into the democratic party. The SO. called
fusion leaders have not yet been stricken
with sufficient iemorse to make a comics.
sion' but there are many today posing as
populists with the same purpose in view
acting simply as decoys to draw true
populists into the democratic orpaniza-
ton with the knowledge and cooperation
OF the democratic managers.
The contention of populists has been
fully proven by the acceptance by the
fusion committee, of what is left of it, of
Adlai, Stevenson, relic of the Cleveland
administration of misfortune, as to their
own nominee for vice president, thus
abandoning all pretense of independ.
ence and becoming part of the demo.
cratic machine.
The socalled fusion party today stands
without a nominee who ever pretended
to be populist; practically without an
organization, and without a following
among the people, save in four or five
close states, where the organization is
maintained as the only hope of demo-
cratic ascendency; political generals
without an army, who are keeping up
semblance of organization for the pur-
pose of compelling the democratic party
to purchase their allegiance with public
Offices and campaign funds.
To yield the independent populist or
ganization to the support of Bryan and
Stevenson would destroy it forever, and
resolve it into its original elements-some
returning to the republican and others to
the democratic party. In other words:
would be to enter the political inferno
over the entrance of which might we'll be
inscribed "All hope abandon, We who en-
ter here" Repudiate, on the honor of
populists, this effort to sell you-to ex-
change you for cabinet position, few
revenue collectorships, and a few minor
Jobs for cheaper men. Populists, stand
up for your organization, stand up for
your principles, stand up for your honor
Let us roll up such vote for Barker
and Donnelly as the representatives of
real populism, free from the faint of po-
litical prostitution, as to command the
future of this nation and place our party
on the highway to victory.
" Perish policy, perish cunning,
Perish all that fear the light,
Whether vim ing, whether losing,
Trust in God, and do the right. 3"