The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-13
OF FUSION
Ell Reno Democrat Denounces
1t EditoriaIly.
TAX-EATERS AND L00TERS
1t Calls the Fusion-FixerS of
Both Parties.

Guahrie, o. T., Jan. 12.-Editorily the FL
Reno Democrat, in the subject of fusion.
says: In another column will be seen a
call for the remains of the Populist party
of this county to meet in FL Reno. The
! ostensible purpost of this meeting is to
pull the party together and attempt to
organize for another campaign, but the
real object by the leaders, or, rather,
might we say, by the orice-hunters of
that organization, is to see what kind of
deal they can make with the bobtail
element of the Democratic porty toward
a fusion and parceIling out OF the county
offices for another term.
THE FL Reno gong of tax-eaters and
treasury looters of both parties care moth
ing for the welfare of either party. All
they want is office and al they crave is
pie. A gang of five or six coffee-cooleIs
in each party are looking forward to the
time when they can parcel out the local
Offices and compel the rank and file TO fall
in and help elect their slate regardless of
their fitness for the places sought.
In speaking ON the subject of fusion In
the territory ex-Chairman l.. F. LaYerty,
Of Guthrie, said TO a Wichita Eagle cor
respondent last week that there would
be an heroic effort upon the part of the
office-hunters of the remenants Of the
two parties in the territory to fuse again,
but, said he. I do not believe that they
will accomplish fusion this year. I be-
Ieve that it will fail and that it ought to
fail. Many of the Democrats are against
it and I know that the larger part of our
people are opposed to it,.
In response to the question whether
theer was an a agreement or not at the con-
Vention in Oklahoma City, which nom
mated eKaton, to give the Populists the
fusion nomination for delegate in 1909,
Mr.. Laverty, without any hesitation said:
Yes, there was such an agreement
At this point We want to ask who was
authorized to make such an agreement,
and are the rank and file of the Demo-
cratic party of Oklahoma such cravens at
heart as to be sold into bondage by
handful of sop-hunters from both parties?
Mr.. Laverty reveals new and unpub-
lished secrets of this infamous deal in his
statement, that, in addition to selling out
the Democratic party for 1900, they were
sold out in 1898 on the legislative ticket
He says that the Populists were promised
i nthat convention, which nominated Kea-
ton, that if they would come to eKaton,
the Democrats were to reciprocate by Civ
ing the Populists majority Of the ltgis-
lative nominations. He further states
that the Democrats, or at least two
Democrats inthat deal, went back on their
promise.
He charges that Thomas Doyle and
Judge Mackey, no sooner had the conven- |
ton closed. hustled back to their districts |
and announced themselves as legislative |
candidates in violation of this compact.
This is the record of fusion in this |
territory. and this rotten deal is to be !
repeated in 1900. The maneuvering to that |
end has commenced in every county In |
this county such a deal is shaping. Two |
Or three E. Reno Pops want office, and |
they are ready to make contracts attempt
ing to bind the rank ard file until the year
Of 2,000 if by it they can land themselves
INTO Office A few Democrats in Office and
a few more out of office are more than
anxious to meet them halfway, provided
hey come in for share of the pie, but it
occurs to US that the honest rank and file
IF both parties have had enough of it, and
hey will no longer permit this gang to
sell and trade them like sheep in the open
market"