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Show The Kansas Alliance. Denver Republic in. The farmers' alliance will control the politics of Kansas for the next two years. It is owing, doubtless, to the influence in-fluence of this organization that tho inauguration in-auguration of the new state officers will not bo attended by tho ordinary ceremonies. cere-monies. They will merely take the oath of office and then entor upon tho discharge of their duties, This is a manifestation of Jeffersonian simplicity which will meet with the approval ap-proval of a great many peoplo. There is, however, more occasion for observing observ-ing it in tho inauguration of a president than in the inauguration of a governor. The office of president is so exalted that it uoeds no inaugural ceremonies to call attention to it. But in tho Inauguration Inau-guration of stale officers there might be some benefit from ceremonial display, iu that it would tend to elevate those offices in tho estimation, of tho public. The K nasal farmers started out upon a great reform crusade. They propose to make a great many changes in the laws of theirstate, nearly alt of which would be benelicial. But the work which they have mapped out is so vast that it is not probable that they will be ablo to accomplish all they propose to undertake Tho situation in Kansas illustrates how movements like that led by the farmers' alliance aro beneficial. They cause a general breaking up of old ground. People are induced to look upon subjects of state legislation from a new standpoint, and thus they gut ideas which they formerly did not entertain. en-tertain. Such reforms are necessary in order to keep the peoplo from sinking into that lethargy which gives an opportunity op-portunity for fraud aud mismanagement mismanage-ment in public affairs. |