Show FUSION IS BITTERLY DENOUNCED i WOULD MEAN RUIN AND DISASTER By D H Peery member Democratic National Executive Committee The Democratic party in each and every state In the Union Union occupies ples a much stronger position than it U has during the last two presidential campaigns Th Tho arbitrary bigoted and dictatorial administration of Roosevelt Ro sevelt has been so 80 unsatisfactory as to disgust the major portion of our citizens His tremendous conceit and contemptuous treat treatment treatment treatment ment of all classes of people has not only created Innumerable Innumerable erable enemies for the Republican party but has also brought ruin and disaster to thousands of Americans In all walks of life The voters of our country are not yet vet et ready to change hangs c our form of government from a republic t to an empire The proposition to fuse In the coming city cUy cam campaign campaign with the followers follow rs of this grandstand player whose principal qualification in addition to his faculty for calling better and greater men than himself liars and undesirable citizens has been his adroitness In stealing 4 the thoughts and ideas of William J Bryan Brya Is so absurd and preposterous that I do not believe any Democrat in Salt Lake City has at any time favorably considered such sucha D a ridiculous scheme a J Once before in 1891 1597 a Citizens party was organized in Salt Lake LaIte with the single and avowed purpose of defeating the Democratic party This was immediately following the malodorous and rank failure of the first Republican control of the city government t Notwithstanding the rotten record the Republican party made during that administration the wolf by disguising itself in clothing succeeded in defeating one of our most stalwart rt Democrats by a few hundred votes after a vicious campaign of vil and misrepresentation We are nearing another presidential campaign To disband our organization tion this year ear and join forces with nith our hereditary enemy eDem and foe would mean ruin and disaster to our cause We must not lose our Identity with victory In Inthe Inthe Inthe the nation so imminent The Democratic ticket that will be placed before the citizens of Salt Lake Sity ty this fall faU will contain the names only of honorable and trustworthy men menn n easy way wa to avoid the calamity of the continuance of ot the present ad administration administration administration ministration will be bo for all an good citizens to vote the Democratic ticket straight We have the votes In Salt Lake City If the Democrats vote the Democratic ticket it will surely be elected Defeat with honor is preferable lo to victory v accompanied by humiliation and disgrace disgraceD |