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Show rtioiiiiiiTiox i neiikkv. ! An Inn That I ho KeptiMlcan rialtorui I Matter Mit.t Meet Thin Kail. j Lincoln, Nob., April 1 1. Nebraska ! w ill have three gif.-tt issues to eonh'nd I alul at the full election, two of w hich tariff reform and tin- regulation of railroad rales- have hern given so much prominence already thai tin' third has liecn almost lost sight of. Tito la.nl session ses-sion of tin1 legislature pro-jvidrd pro-jvidrd for the submission of an amciidmcitl to llio coiistitu-j coiistitu-j (ion prohibiting tin manufacture or sale of liipior within the stale. The probablo course of the, Kcpuhlicatl convention con-vention on (hU question is a matter of grave concern to tho leaders of I In parly, who do not v (heir way clcr either to indorsement of or opposition U the proposed iimeiulmeht. Hitherto that parly in Nebraska, has sustained close relation with die saloon clement and tli'i'iv t' much of its strength from (bat source, (In die other hand. the prohibition pro-hibition ballh- in lh' legislature was fought, almost wholly by men elected as ivpnblii ans. Tin' juitliloni that will confront lln- eoiivenlion is whi ther, with the example of lows before be-fore It, il ran afford to champion prohi- biiion. The democracy is committed against sumptuary enactments, but will favor a local option law in all probability. proba-bility. The chances are that the republican, under liressure from the W. C. T. I. and the Farmer-' Alliance, Alli-ance, will champion prohibition out and out and take the chance of the defeat with their old allies, the saloonkeepers, predict I iu store for them a- a punish' inenl for Ihe serverenee of llio old lies. The farming community Is uitqucstioit ably dissalistled at the aboralive attempt at-tempt of Ihe republican party to frame a tariff bill thai should offer a gleam of light for die agriculturist, and nl (he shallow ties of die pretense; at lighting its battle with the railroad moiioiollsls on the subject of lower rales for farm products, ll w ill require all tho skill of the platform-makers to please die farmers, the prohibitionists, the saloon-kecpe-H and the license clement In dm party and keep them within tho ranks. |