Show THE independents I 1 THE issues upon which the republican party were brought into existence before the aarand war and upon which the democratic party fought it unsuccessfully for so many years afterward dhave bave wo ti longer U ger a substantial existence they were at best but for the time and the people which evolved theland the them mand and when they were settled the republican party had filled its mission and their opponents were left with nothing but a name backed by a history to fight out oat ot of such a slackening up of political lines has browh a number of smaller organizations all more or less ephemeral is a floating mass refuses to get together and be organized and in which each individual votes for whoever and whatever pleases him best this body of free thinkers and unrestrained actors is known as independents depe enesi no not a as the independent party fur for there is so ao party in it they P play jay 1 fantastic lanta nt at c tricks too sometimes as a witness 1 ane a toe t e following from the boston herald the independent voters do not all break in the same direction each one stops to think and uses his bis own best judgment in every case thus in one district in california a republican was elected in place of a democrat in another district a democrat in place of a republican in one connecticut district a democrat is elected in place of a republican in four illinois districts republicans are elected in place of democrats in one massachusetts districts democrat is displaced by a republican in three others republican give place to democrats republicans are also elected to seats now filled by democrats in indiana iowa kentucky michigan new jersey new york north carolina and virginia while democrats displace re republicans in kentucky minnesota nebraska e new hampshire new york P pennsylvania e south carolina and T tennessee e in short the independent voter is abroad |