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majority5of $4,000 has either entirely
or practically disappeared. Five out

majority5of $4,000 has either entircl,
or practically disappeared. Five Oh
Of seven Districts return Allianc
Congressman, and the Legisl,attiuIr3
chosen viii retire Ingalls.
Tn Nebraska the Alliance ha
almost elected tho Governor, and a
any rnse has compassed the defea
of til, Republican nominee by lettip.
in the Democratic candidate. Tw.
Alliancemon and one Democrat M,
elected to Congress. The KepuDii
can party has been, for tho time q
least, obliterated.
In Minnesota, while the Rcpubli
cans apparently elect their Govcrno
by an apology of q plurality, tho,
have virtually suffered defeat, for a
against tho two opposition parties
they are in n hopeless minority, ant
they have lost tho five Congrcssmel
and tho Legislature. ..H@.l
In South Dakota tho Alliance con
tested with the Republicans on cqrua
terms.
In Michigan and Illinois the Ali,
aIoe did not put a ticket for Stat,
officers in the fold, but the organiza.
ton has elected legislative candi.
dates and generally contributed tc
Republican defeat. 1t may hold the
balance of power in the Illinois Leg.
~islaturc and control tho election of q
successor to Senator Farwcll.
Such is the outcome Of the Ali.
ance movement in the campaign Of
1890. The deductions thcrcfrom
arc pertinent. 1t has shown itself
to be a power in American politics.
and in future elections it is likely tc
be a very important factor. Nc
political movement has ever shown
such amazing vitality in such a short
space of time.
As it looks now, the Democratic
party seems likely to be the immc,
date beneficiary of the Farmers
Alliance "idca." Tho returns from
the West show conclusivcly that
united the Democracy and the ALI
anco can carry nearly every large
Western STATE, and even when run
ming separate tickets tho Alliance
draws so heavily from the Republic
cans that it jcopardizes the success
of that party mall tho great agri-
cultural States of the Mississippi
Valley. There is no question that
the Alliance holds the balance of
power to-day in Illinois, Iowa, Mich
gan, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska,
and probably in the two Dakotas.
Whichever party it's sup
port is sure to win in 1892. With
out it's support or with it's hostility
the Republican party is in a hopeless
minority. The States it promises to
control have always been conridcrcd
Republican strongholds, and they
have been added up in the Republic
can column as certainly as Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi arc put in
tho Democratic column. With some
of these States voting for a Demo-
cratic candidate, or ever casting
their electoral vote for an Alliance
candidate for President, New York
ceases to be pivotal and the issue
becomes much involved.
The Republican party can hope
nothing at the hands Of the ALI
ancc. The latter owes its creation
to the protective tariff policy of the
0. p., and to its Indifference to the
needs of the masses. It's aim is to
alter and annul the very Legislation
in which the Republican party ayers
It's absolute belief.
The Democratic party is much
to the Alliance in its sympa-
and tendencies. Both advocate
reform and. law takes. Both
ire against monopolics and trusts.
The thing which will be likely to
keep them apart is the now famous
'Sub-Treasury scheme" which would
make pawnshop of the United
States Treasury. This "Alliancc
of faith" is something the
party never eau and will
endorse. 1t is one of the wild
schemes which always arise to mar
movements, and it seems to
very dear to tho Alliance heart.
It remains to be seer whether the
Alliance members in the Fifty
second Congress will make the adop-
ion of this project the price of their
support. Had they held the balance
power, they would doubtlcssly
lavc done so, but as it is, the Demo-
with its monster majority, is
Independent Of them, were they