The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-04
OKLAHOMA COUNTY DEMOCRATS
sore Over Cross Defeat and There'iI
BE Nc Fusion There.

BE Nc Fusion There.
Guthrie, o. T, Aug. 2.-The Oklahoma
City Times-Journal says: The action Of
the members OF the Oklahoma county
delegation at the joint convention who
cihae to the convention from attendan-
&c from the Populist convention in
throwing their support TO Neff instead
Of supporting the nomination of VIM.
Cross o fOklahoma City has caused more
Indignation among the Democrats of the
city than anything that has occurred in
the count yfor years and it throws fusion
on the county ticket out Of the question
this fail.
Every Democrat within the city with
but one or two exceptions wfl support
Nef for congress, but they will see that
the men who opposed the Oklahoma coun-
~ nominee are not forgotten and that
the party that they came from 10 enter
the convention Will not receive the sup
PORT if their statements can be credited
as made 70 the Times-Journal man this
morning.
One Of the leading Democrats OF the
city who has been prominent in the coUn-
ellis Of the party for years said: 81 am
going to support Neff because he was
1
am not 5~.ter but have served notice
that I viii never vote for a Populist
candidate on ticket in Oklahoma county
as long as any fusion may exist. am
against allowing any offices to Populists
who viii enter a joint convention in
which they become members of one poll
teal organization and give up their alleg-
lance to poPulism for the purpose Of nom
mating a candidate and then insisted by
their vote that Populist be nominated
or nothing. That is what the PoplIlst
and htey thought 50 much Of their Pop
ulism that they killed their chances to
nomi gte VIM. Cross and prevented his
nomination. If, they think more Of their
Populist friends when they are in Joint
convention than the ydo Of their coun-
try, their friends at home and the prin-
ciples that should animate honorable
men TO support the candidate that is best
for their party locally, they can have
their Populist ticket but they can have
fusion as far as I am concerned with
the Democracy that supported Bill Cross
and I VIII never vote for one OF them.
ching that I ever saw in a convention
for the Populist delegates TO oppose the
nomination of VIM. Cross. The dele
gates who voted for Netf represent their
party and their party viii pay the cost
o. their treachery to this county and to
this city. No reason can be given why
they refused to vote for VIM. Cross ex-
cept tnat they thought more of their
Populism than they did 10y doing the
right thing by their country. They
served notice on us that they did not
want q union Of force and they will never
get il IN Oklahoma as far as I am con-
eerned Did you notice how the Popu-
lists and Democrats Of Kay county
stood far Robert Nef? Well, contrast
their actions with the Pops here and
figure if you can what they have for
union except to get a few Offices 1 will
cupport Nen as the nominee of the Joint
convention but never will I support
3opuiist nominee of Oklahoma county
who was a party TO the knitting Of Bill
Cross and there are hundreds of Demo-
cratic friends of mine that are so stu
ated."
An officer of the county said: 'eThev> tod
me at the last ballot that they came over
there at the Joint convention bound to Sc
cure the nominatio nof a Popuist at any
cost That is true but it only makes /!
'heir action in refusing to vote for an
Oklahoma county man more despicable 20 /
me. I an for Neff but I will never run !
on fusion ticket with the men that
worked with the Guthrie delegation 10 /
beat their city and county and that is
what they done on every vote but the /
two votes they gave to Dr. Walker. No /
fusion for me IN county affairs with the /
traitors to their homo man would |
rather ba defeated on a Democratic |
u'ket tina nto he elected o ma fusion !
with men Of so little principle and judg- |
Tent as thsy have shown"
There are many more who talked in
the same strain and the proposed fusion /
in Oklahoma county between the Popu- /
list and Democratic parties win not be a
winner even if It is finally effected.
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