Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-11-12
of canyassers on the 9th day of November. A. D.
1891.
Witness my hand and the seal of said board at
my office this It'll day of November, 1891.
lSEAL1 J. s. BARNES county clerk.
The Election.

As we stated in last weeks HERALD
the Peoples Party elected their en-
tire ticket in Phillips county. From
the official count in another column,
it will be seen that the candidates
were all elected by handsome MAORI
ties, ranging from 134 to 433 This be-
ing an off year and nothing to elect
but county officers, there was not as
much interest taken as there was last
year when there was a Legislature
and United States Senator to elect.
This year the opposition succeeded in
getting out almost their entire vote,
while in this county alone there were
over three hundred Alliance men that
did not go to the polls on account of
having SO much work to do and be:
lieving that the election of the Peo-
pies Party candidates was a sure
thing, and their vote would not be
needed. In some townships there
were as high as twenty-five or thirty
Alliance men that did not go to the
polls. Such neglect as this, fellow
Alliance men, might have defeated
the ticket, and we trust hereafter you
will not allow your work, the weather
or anything else keep you away
from the polls. As it was, the Peo-
ple's ticket was all elected by good
majorlties, but had every Alliance vote
been palled the majorities would have
been much larger than they were last
year.
10 Smith, Jewell, Rocks, Osborne,
Cloud, Mitchell and Decuture coun-
ties the Peoples Party succeeded in
electing their entire ticket. In Sher-
man county they elected five of the
principal officers. Norton and Raw
Inns counties went republican except
for sheriff, which Office was captured
by the Peoples Party in both coun-
ties. Republic county elected the en-
tire republican ticket except commIs-
sioneF. The republicans elected all
of their ticket in Thomas county, but
the Alliance polled larger vote than
they did last year.
That the Peoples Party has grown
in Kansas during the past year there
can be no doubt, for the vote this fall
shows that the Alliance has polled a
larger per cent. of the total vote than
it did last year. In number of coun=
ties they lost the election this year
simply because a great many Alliance
men did not go to the polls, and on
account of the fusion of the demo
cratic and republican parties. Where
ever the Alliance suffered defeat the
republicans made a desperate fight
and would not then have been sue
cessfuI had not the democratic party
come to the rescue. Therefore sum
ing it all up, we think the Peoples
Party in Kansas has much to rejoice
over, considering the fight and mis-
representations put forth by the OPP
position. The recent election has
shown that IL the campaign Of 1892
in this state there will only be two
partiesj one of those Will be the Peo-
pies Party and the other can be nam.
ed the Demo-Republican party. BY
the time the campaign opens up the
Alliance will be thoroughly united
! and ifs organization bettar in linz
than eyer before, and if every man
will do his duty and go to the polls
on election day, success will be in
scribed upon their banners in every
county in Kansas.