Show LAST HOPE GONE Nebraska Administration Democrats Are In n Bad Boat Omaha No Oct 18A special to the Bee from Lincoln Neb says The last hope of the administration Democrats to secure recognition for the candidates nominated by the state convention which bplted the regular convention was destroyed tonight by5 the supreme court deciding that the fusion or Bryan ticket shall be designated desig-nated a democratic on the official ballot The question came upon pet lon a to the power of the secretary of state with respect to certificates of nomination under the provisions of the ballot law The court was also asked to pass on the question Does the law authorize the printing more than once on the official ballot of the names of candidates nominated by different candidate diferent parties par-ties or by petition In answer to the first question the court said that the power of the secretary sec-retary when objection Is made to any certificate filed with him to determine from extrinsic evidence whether or not such certificate is fraudulent and whether the nomination therein certi fed was made by a convention or assemblage as-semblage of voters in good faith claiming to represent a party which cast the requisite number of votes at the last election i plainly implied from the state law Answering the second question the court declared that the ballot law evidently evi-dently contemplates that the name of each candidate shall appear but once on the official ballot followed by such political designations as correspond with the nomination papers on file with the officer charged with the duty of printing and distributing them I follows that there is no authority for the printing of names thereon more than once The decision a to the last question Is a victory for the alleged bolters since it was intended to have the names of the fusion candidates printed Democrats twice 0 the ballot a Populists t and |