St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-03
WILL THE ALLIANCE RULE +?
Nebraska Democrats Can Settle
the Question.


LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 2.-Great inter
est is felt in the election tomorrow.
Not because OF the high offices at stake,
for only supreme judge and regents of
the university are to be elected, but be-
cause it is to determine whether or not
the Farmers Alliance, or Independent
party, is to gain political supremacy in
Nebraska. In QUE respect Nebraska
this year presents situation without
parallel lin the past thirty or forty years
of the nations hstOry-the Demo
cratic party is without candidates and
is allowing the state to go by default.
This Is all the more remarkable when it
is remembered but one year ago their
candidate, Boyd, was elected governor
of the state. and was only deprived of
that high Office on the grounds of nom
naturalization. The present action of
the Democratic party is due to the re-
fusal of its nominee for supreme Judge
to make the race, whereup0n its can
didates for regents were alike with
drawn, and the field left to the Repub-
licanS, Independents and Prohibition
lists.
All parties admit that the contest be-
tween the Republicans and Farmers
will be very close, the Prohibition vote
naturally being light. The campaign
has been entirely and exclusively de-
voted to the financial question. Even
the tariff question was almost lost sight
of in the sharp controversy which has
waged between the Republicans and
Independents upon the silver question.
In their state conventions the Republic
ans contented themselves by lndorsing
protection and the Independents in de-
nouncing it; but upon The financial
question both parties INDUCED in
rhetorical declarations. The Republic
an platform on this subject reads:
We approve the silver coinage act of the
present administration by which the entire
products of the silver mines of the United
States is added to the currency of the people,
but we denounce the Democratic doctrine of
the free and unrestricted coinage of silver
as q measure liable to precipitate every
city and state of the Union in prolonged
and disastrous depression, and delay the re-
vlyal of business enterprise and pros eritv SO
ardently desired and now apparently so
near. We are in favor of having every dol
lar as good as any other dollar.
The Independents resolved as follows:
The right to make and issue money is a SOW
ereign power to be maintained by the people
for their common benefit: hence we demVnd
the abolition of national banks Gs banks of
issue, and as a substitute for national bank
notes demand that legal tender treasury notes
be made in sufficient volume to transact the
business of the country on g cash basis with
out damage or special advantage to any class
or calling, such to be legal tender in pay
ment of all debts, public and private. Such
notes as demanded by the people shall be
loaned 10 them at cost Of issue upon adequate
security IN amounts to each individual not
to exceed 800. We demand the free and
unlimited coinage of silver.
Thus the issue was clearly drawn be-
tween the two parties, and the result
depends largely on how the Democrats
vote, with chances largely in favor of
Alliance candidates.