The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-17
THE LATEST FUSION.

THE LATEST FUSION.
 They build up some queer politics in big, bad New York. but one of inc aueerest mixnps is the fusion between the Republicans and the Hearst In- dependence League. We do not know that we might properly call 1t union between Blynl and Black George. but 1t is hardly more reputable. Anything to beat Tammany," was evidently the dominating force that actuated both sides in this alliance of divergent pol- itics. But 1t was politics and nothing else.
 There could be no honest community of sentiment between the regular Re- publicans and Hearst and bis follow ing, nor can the Republicans in any part of the country have any love for Hearst himself. It is recalled that only about one year ago Hon. Elihu Root. Secretary of State. made care fully prepared speech at Utica,. N.. T., declaring that he voiced the sentiments of the President and the administra- ton. and in that address he formally charged that Hearst was largely re- sponsible for the death of Mir. McKtn- ley. and denounced the Independence League and it's candidate for Governor in plain English.
 And yet with all these reasons for enmity between these political organ nations we find them uniting for the spoils of once At the fusion cons en- ton they nominated Republican for Justice of the Supreme Court. one Re- publican and two Hearst men for Judges of the Court of General ses- sIons, three Republicans and three HeaFst men for judges of the City cout, and Hearst man for Sheriff. The Republicans thus sgot five candi- dates and the Hearst crowd got six.
 This Is the sort of combination that now represents what is left of the Re- pubiicane organization of New York city and county. Can there be any hon. est principle involved or represented in such performance? To defeat Tammany was one prominent object and to get the offices was the other and the most important ,one, and to accomplish these objects there was fusion between two organizations which have about as much affinity as oil and water. Such is politics in New York. The New York Commercial thus comments on 1t:
 Here is the disgusting spectacle of party inconsistency and weakness and shiftine$s: A year ago the Republican organization and individual Repu99hh- 9h. other denounced the corrupt Ideal" that produced fusion between Tamma- ny Hall and Hearst Hearst who had many, to all intents and purposes. and had secured a large part of his polft- teal following through his persistent opposition to the Murphy gang; 1t was the strong and consistent and per- sistent appeal made to the voters to de- feat the purposes of this vicious a1- liance that resulted in the election of Cnari6S slI. duEneS Io the GOVernOrSnlp and in triumph for the forces of de- cency and law and order; and now. a tweiyemonth later, the chairman of the New York Republican County Commit tee goes out in person and arranges the details of a fusion with these all lies of Tammany and defends it on the ground that Tammany is the 'fnveter- ate enemy of the local Republican forces and of the welfare of the city'' and that, 'in order to save the city we must defeat Tammany," As if Hearst and his henchmen and his policies and purposes were any better than the Mur- phyites and their policies! Since when has 1t been the part of wisdom to con- sort and affiliate with one set of poe litIcal rascals in order to demonstrate continued hostility to another set of the same stripe? If the Hearst Murphy Ideal" in 1906 was a corrupt political bargain. an "unhoy alliance" is the rst-Parsons deal" in 1907 any less vicious and despicable? Is any man justified in forfeiting his self-respect, his honor, as a means of preventing a great public wrong? This Is a brand new politico- ethical doctrine that the Honorable Herbert Parsons is exploit ing.