The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-27
In tho Enemy's Country.

The Republicans Of Nebraska held their
convention In Lincoln yesterday for the
nomination Of q Judge Of the Supreme
Court and two State Regents. The Gov.
ernor and the other State officers elected in
1890 hold over until after next years elec.
ton. In the contest Of a year ago the
Bryan plurality in Nebraska was $4,000.
This was really q fusion plurality, for the
Presidential electors represented on equal
terms the two Bryanite parties, the Dem.
ocrats and the Populists, o electors hav.
Ing been taken from each party.
Nebraska is one Of the few States In
which the Populist party, as such, had .
following larger than that Of the Demo-
cratic party In the election Of 1892. That
year Gen. WEAVER polled $4,000 votes,
against $4,000 for CLEVELAND. Appro-
priately enough, the Populista of Nebraska,
who o~utnumbered the Democratic In that
State In 1892, furnished the latter with q
candidate In 1906; but, as the figures Of
the contest Of a year ago showed, the Re-
publicans of the Blackwater State made q
vigorous fight, and their attitude upon the
question of the preservation Of the nations
financial honor wal not only consistent and
commendable. but extremely r~esolute,
when the conditions existing In the farm.
Ing districts Of Nebraska one year ago arc
taken into account.
At their State Convention Of April IS,
1890, long before the assembling Of tho
Republican National Convention at st.
Louis and at a time when the compro-
misers and thermometers in the Republican
ranks were for formulating silver" by
such unwarrantable and dangerous con-
SESSIONS of principle as cowardice and
weakness might propose, they adopted tho
following resolution:
ave pledge ourselves in advance TO the platform
OF the Forthcoming Republican National Convention.
believing that 1t will declare against this FREQ and un-
limited coinage Of silver and for the currency Of gold.
silver and paper as sound as the Government and as
un'G-nished as fs honor"
At their State Convention Of July 1, fol-
lowing the nominations made by the Repub-
lican National Convention, the Nebraska
Republicans adopted this as their declara-
t!on Of principle:
"a sound dollar. as sound as the Government and
as untarnished as its nag; O dollar that 10 good not
only ut home but good wherever trade Koos; a. good
In the hands OF a farmer or workingnan as in the
hands of a capitalist. manufacturer. or corporation"
The nomination of a Nebraska man By
the Democratic National Convention and
the subsequent ratification Of this nomina-
tion by the Populist Convention at st.
Louis, made more difficult than 1t might
otherwise have been the fight of the Repub-
licans of that State. They mad a gallant
fight, however, and stood courageously by
their colors.
Now in 1897 they meet under conditions
promising entire success. The corn crop Of
Nebraska has been estimated this year at
OO,OOO,O 900 bushels, the wheat crop
at 3O,O0O,OO DOC bushels, the hay yield at
5000, 900 tons, and the oat crop at 80, OOO,
900 bushels. The Republican Senator
from Nebraska estimates at 500, 600, 900
the double gain to the farmers and traders
Of that State from the enhanced price paid
for American cereals and the increased
crop. Calamity-seeking Populists OF Ne
braska, COMPOUNDED by this palpable proof
Of prosperity, are for "disengaging
themselves" as they say, from any
further alliance with the Democrats
while many Of the Democratic Of BRYAN's
State are for disassociating themselves
henceforth from the Populists. Meanwhile
the Republicans, who have stuck stead.
fastly TO the position which they tool in
April, 1896, are about to reap the political
harvest which, everywhere in the United
States, Is the reward Of consistency, fidelity
to principle, courage, forbearance under de-
feat, and patriotic devotion to the nations
cause and the preservation of its credit.
The election in Nebraska his year is not
of an important character. The Offices to be
filed are not such as are likely to affect In
any way the future course of politics there,
but the manifestation Of the effects OF
courage and candor in the support of an
essential principle is highly important.
The Republicans of Nebraska are to be con.
graduated in advance upon the victory
which now awaits them.