The representative., 1901-01-24
HAVE NO USE FOR POPULISM.
Nevvly-Elected Senators i'm Colorado
and Idaho VIII I'm Future Vote With

and Idaho VIII I'm Future Vote With
the Democrats.
DENVER, Colo. Jan. 16.-(SpeciaD-
Thomas NJ. Patterson, senator elect from
Colorado, says there is no place for Popu-
lism in the political map of the country.
Mr.. Patterson presided over the last ma
tiOnal convention at Sioux Falls, S. D., and
his remarks are significant. He was for
mally elected United States senator today.
and in a speech he said:
The principles of the Kansas City plat
form are those in the main for which the
Peoples and Silver Republican parties have
contended They are the principles upon
which our great republic is founded and
by uphOlding which our republican system
of government can alone be maintained.
Yet these principles must be fought for by
Democrats and against those who call them
selves Democrats. l believe the fight for
them can be most successfully made within
the Democratic ranks. Those who are out
side of them are outside of the fortifca- :
tions and are but helpless lockers on. l
can see no present hope for the triumph
of lhe principles of the Kansas City plat
form except through the Democratic party
BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 6.-(Special-In a
speech delivered today before the Joint as
sembly of the legislature, Senator elect F.
I. Dubois formally declared himself a
Democrat and expressed his intention of
going into the Democratic caucus at Wash
ington Immediately upon taking his seat
in the United States senate, and thereafter
affiilating with that party in the national
congress His action today marks the end
of the Silver Republican party in this state
Chicago Tribune.
Populists Of the Northwest have never
regarded T. M. Patterson as a Popu-
will hr,. ho
prised at the above declaration from
HIM. Why should men. holding such
views, have ever pretended to be Pop
ulists? Coulu any man be apparently
more loyal Democrat than he seems TO
be today?
Colorado is either a Populist or a
Republican state. 1t has been control
led by both of these parties. The Dem
o6rats never had any strength in Colo
rado. In the face of these facts we find
Mr.. Patterson sent to the United States
senate from tnat state and at the same
time declaring himself Democrat and
We call this a representative form Of
government. Does Mr.. Patterson rep
resent the Colorado Republicans, does
he represent the Populists, when he
openly declares himself a Democrat or
does he represent the Democrats who
are too few in Colorado to maintain a
separate organization?
This is what fusion has done for Col
Orado. 1t has done the same for Kan
sas. 1t has destroyed the reform move
ment in Idaho. Wherever fusion has
got in it's work reform has melted away
before the superior force of partisan
organization. The better organized and
older party has swallowed up the new
and the people are waiting for the next
act in the play.
The next act will be ushered in with
primary election laws, and various
measures for direct legislation. Re-
formers will get together, not to
strengthen and build up one of the cor
rupt old party machines, but to smash
all machines. To wipe out party lines,
to line up for principles instead of for
IACu dAu W WI tO6CCucI LII tA6 SuC-
cess of measures instead of the triumph
OF party.
Then will appear the villains in the
play, then will be uncovered and expos
ed the politicians who, by fusion for
the upbuilding of party machine, have
80 long delayed the work the people
have to do.
The end is coming through unity. but
not fusion; through peace rather than
war. through the destruction of all par
ty lines instead of the building UP Of
two nearly equal but opposing party
machines. L. A. T.