People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — FUSION VICTORIES. [ARTICLE]

FUSION VICTORIES.

Wonderful Strides of Populism Acknowledged by Gold Standard Paper. As the strength of the Populists is chiefly in the west and south it is not to be wondered at that so little attention has been paid to their movements fib those parts of the country exempt from their influence. In 1892 they cast a total of 1,041,028 votes for their presidential candidate, Weaver, out of a total of 12,110,636 for all candidates. If they had given no ( evidences of growth in the meanwhile, they would not cut much of a figure in the calculations of the present year. But a remarkable feature of the elections of 1894 was the great increase in the Populist vote which accompanied the overturning of the Democratic candidates. In the leading states in which a Populist organization was in the field in 1892 and in 1894 the following table shows their gains: 1892. 1894. Arkansasll,B3l 24,541 California2s,3s2 51,304 111in0i522,207 59,793 Indiana 22,208 29,388 lowa 20,595 32,118 Kentucky23,soo 16,911 Michiganl9,B92 30,012 Minnesota.<..29,3l3 87,931 Missouri4l.2l3 42,463 Montana 7,794 15,240 Ohio 14,850 52,675 Oregon 26,965 26,033 Tennessee 23,447 23,092 Texas ....«99,688 159,224 Washington 19,165 25,140 Wisconsin 9,909 • 25,604 These results were on straight tickets. Ip addition the Populists in a fusion with the Democrats increased in Colorado from 53,584 to 82,111. In Georgia, where they cast 42,937 votes in 1892,. a Republican fusion gave them 96,888 in 1894. In Kansas a Democratic fusion gave them 163,111 votes for president in 1892, and separately they cast 118,327 in 1894. In Nebraska a straight vote of 83,134 for Weaver in 1892 was increased by Democratic fusion to 97,815 in 1894. In North Carolina a fusion with the Republicans on .chief justice in 1894 increased their vote from 44,736 in’lß92 to 148,344, or more than the total Republican and Populist vote of 1892, In Virginia a similar fusion increased the vote from 12,270 to 81,239. In Alabama the fusion vote of 85,181 in 1892 only fell off on a straight vote in 1894 to 83,283. In Mississippi the vote was substantially unchanged. In North Dakota a fusion vote of 17,700 in 1892 was reduced to a straight vote of 9,354 in 1894. It must be borne in mind that the vote in the off year .is uniformly less than in a presidential year. If the Pcpulist vote increased so largely from 1892 to 1894, it becomes an interesting question to know whether it has gone on-increasing. It will undoubtedly be a factor in the results of next November, especially if there should be a fusion with the free silver bolters from one or both of the old parties.—New York World Editorial. P. S.—The world doesn’t want to see any more fusion. An outlawed debt is revived should i the debtor make a partial payment