The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
a DEMOCRATIC VIEW.
How Leading Paper Of the Democracy
Secs the Alliance In Politics.

How . Leading Paper Of the Democracy
Secs the Alliance In Politics.
In Alabama the Alliance nearly sue
ceeded in nominating the Democratic
candidate for governor. In Georgia,
South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas it
did succeed it controlling the Demo-
cratic state conventions and in placing
its men at the head of the tickets, and
they have been elected. In some fifteen
congressional districts in the same states
Alliance Democrats secured the nomina-
ton over regulars" and in many
others where they failed the Demo
cratic nominees, since elected. are
pledged to the Alliance platform, with
the single exception of the sub-treasury
scheme. In at least two states, Georgia
and South Carolina, it is believed the
Alliance will control the selection of the
United States senator. The Alliance in
the south has not injured the Democrat
ic party; it has merely dominated it's
nominations in certain localities.
How different the result in the west!
In four states hitherto regarded as veri.
table Gibraltars of Republicanism the
Alliance has fairly overwhelmed the Re-
publican ticket. In Kansas a Republi-
can majority of so, 900 has either entirely
or practically disappeared. Five out of
seven districts return Alliance congress
men, and the legislature chosen will re-
tire Ingalls,.
In Nebraska the Alliance has almost
elected the governor, and at any rate
has comprised the defeat of the Repub-
hcan nominee by letting in the Demo-
cratic candidate. Two Alliance men
and one Democrat are elected to con-
gross. The Republican party has been.
for the time at least, obliterated.
In Minnesota, while the Republicans
apparently elect their governor by an
apology of plurality, they have virtu-
ally suffered defeat, for as against the
two opposition parties they are in a
hopeless minority, and they have lost
the five congressman and the legislature.
South Dakota the Alliance contested
with the Republicans on equal terms.
In Michigan and Illinois the Alliance
did not put a ticket for state Offices in
the field, but the organization has elect
ed legislative candidates and generally
contributed to Republican defeat. It
may hold the balance of power in the
Illinois legislature and control the cleo
ton of successor to Senator Farwell.
Such is the outcome of the Alliance
movement in the campaign of 1890. The
deductions therefrom are pertinent. It
has shown itself to be power in Amer
lean politics, and in future elections it
is likely to be "a very important factor.
No political movement has ever shown
such amazing vitality in such short
space of time.
AS it looks now the Democratic party
seems likely to be the immediate bene-
fciary of the Farmers Alliance idea"
The returns from the west show con-
clusively that united the Democracy
and the Alliance can carry nearly every
large western state, and even when run
ming separate tickets the Alliance draws
so heavily from the Republicans that it
jeopardizes the success of that party in
all the great agricultural states of the
Mississippi valley. There is no question
that the Alliance holds the balance OF
power today in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan,
Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska and prob
ably in the two Dakotas.
Whichever party secures its support is
sure to win in 1892 Without it's support
or with its hostility the Republican
party is in a hopeless minority. The
states it promises to control have always
been considered Republican strongholds,
and they have been added up in the Re-
publican column as certainly as Geor-
gia, Alabama and Mississippi are put in
the Democratic column With some of
these states voting for Democratic
candidate, or even casting their electoral
vote for an Alliance candidate for presi-
dent, New York ceases to be pivotal and
the issue becomes much involved. =
Washington Cor. New York Herald.