| Show KANSAS AND NEBRASKA POLITICS leaders in kansas and Neb nebraska claim that their party to Is not yet dead they turn to the figures of the last election to show that they still hold their own and furthermore that they will hold bold the balance of power in 1892 in kansas in the face of a coalition D between democrats and and republicans they elected two judges out of a possible nine it is true that in three of the judicial districts the fusion between the two old parties was openly arranged edthe the democrats endorsing republican candidates in nearly all the other districts the fusion though informal was nevertheless carried out in nebraska the principal office at issue was judge of the supreme court democrats had no candidate in the field it is reported that thirty five out of ninety counties gave the republican candidate votes and to the alliance or independent cand candidate the same counties last year in the election for governor gave the republican candidate the independent and the demo crate it was inferred from these figures that the alliance is holding bolding its own and will be heard from next year inasmuch as democrats and republicans will not fuse in a presidential campaign no matter how the alliance leaders may view the matter they can not but see that their party as a factor in politics has lost its hold the nebraska situation is no guide bad feeling haj hai existed there between democrats and republicans since the squabble over the governorship last year it to is probable that many democrats vote doted d for the independents this year while as a many if not more of the independent voters of last year went back to their old party the republic republican CA n A A fair test of the situation could not be h had ad because because there was wae no democratic oan can did atrin the field it is possible th that the bulk of the votes cast for the alliance allia A candidates this year were by bj men originally democrats and ready to come back to their old party it will be seen that where nearly votes were cast last year on only y were cast this year thia shows that over voters were indifferent dlf and justifies the theory that tbt the aliance in nebraska is in of disintegration |
