Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-15
POPIBN S WANING
South Dakota, Once Stronghold
OF the Party. Center OF Polit.
ical Upheaval.
Populist Newspapers Are STAN.
peding to Support OF Repub-
lican Principles.
Failure Of Peoples Party IL
Name State Ticket Aids
Republicans.

Sioux Falls, S. d.. Aug. 15.-It APP
parently needs only n motion to make
| The election in South Dakota this fall
unanimously republican.
The Reputation OF the principles OF
the fusion aggregation a short time ago
by the Madison Outlook for years one
of the most digniiied and anti republic
can newspapers of the state, has set the
pace for other heretofore strong fusion
newspapers, and before election day
arrives the republican press OF the
state will be very materially strength
ened by new additions from the ranks
of the opposition.
Populists especially, and populist
newspapers. are stampedlng toward the
republican party. and there are straws
which Indicate that in the near future
this abandonment of the defunct popu-
list party Will become u rout.
The latest newspaper to renounce
allegiance to the cause of the iusionlsts
and espouse the cause of republlcanism
is the Britton Sentinel. for many years
one of the leading fusion papers in the
northeastern part of the state.
This action is the result of the peo-
pies party of Marshall county deciding
not TO place a legislative and county
ticket in the field this fall.
T. w. Creaser, a pioneer in spreading
the gospel OF the fusionists. and at
present and for some years chairman
Of the peoples party county central
committee of Marshall county, in dis
cussing the action of his party in fail
ing to nominate u legislative and coun-
" ticket, said:
The failure of the peoples party to
nut II state ticket in the field, followed
by what we have done, leaves us all po-
litical orphans. | do not believe that
the PARTY will ever call another state
conventions and it is next to IN lmpoS-
sibility to run a county party ticket
where there is no ticket on the state
Chairman Creaser further announces
that while he personally expects to
vote the democratic ticket, he sees no
reason why any populist has not the
same right to vote with the republic
cans" and that he fully expects that
ranks.
Editor Harry E. Phelps, of the Brit
ton Sentinel, in announcing that ms
paper will henceforth support the prin-
ciples of the republican party, agrees
With Chairman CreaSer that the failure
OF the peoples party of Marshall coun-
" to place legislative and county
ticket in the field made the populists
ot the county political orphans.
These individual instances of the
of populist principles for
the progressiveness of republicanism
are straws which indicate the extent
OF the political upheaval now in pro-
gress in the fusion ranks in South Da-
kota.
1t is the general opinion that the once
powerful populist party has forever
ceased to be a factor in state politics
and that it will never again place
and state ticket IN the
field.
1t has been brought to an untimely
death thru the short sightedness of
leaders. who could not place
the interests of the party above their
own selfish, personal interests. and be-
realized and Acknowledged in enter
ing into fusion With the democratic
party.
The populist party being dead, there
is not the slightest question about the
great per cent of populists returning
to the republican party. The reason for
this belief is not far to seek. The pop
ulist party was made up largely of
former republicans. They for the most
part, allied themselves With the popu
lists believing that a new and vigorous
Young party, such as ii was ten or a
dozen years ago, would give them the
relief from real or imaginary wrongs
which the old parties at that time de-
clined to grant.
Two years ago several thousand pop
ulists returned to the republican party
an overwhelming victory in South Da-
kota.
This year a much greater number of
populists will renew their allegiance to
The republican party.
In view of this great upheaval and
locking of thousands to the standard
IF the South Dakota republicans. esti-
mates of $4,000 republican majority at
he November election are conserva-
i've
1t would not be surprising, taking
into consideration, if the
republicans of South Dakota in Novem- |
Ger secured their old-time majority of
80, 600 or 10000 in the state.