The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-25
Going It Alone.


electoral votes in twenty-three Of the forty
five. OF the twenty-one States which hi
carried, twelve were such reliably and I'M
deviatingly Democratic strongholds al
South Caroline, Mississippi and Texas. Nine
a considerable number for defeated can
didate to draw from the column OF the
adversaries Of his party were former
ly Republican States In the far West
or Northwest, mining States" chiefly,
In which Sllverites or Populists were
very numerous. The electoral votes
Of these States, won at the sacrifice OF all
hopes Of political success in the East, we're
secured BY the tripartite fusion which has
been recently effected in Nebraska, q
fusion between the Populists, the Demo-
crats and the shadowy SILVER Republi-
cans so-called.
One OF the States, and indeed the most
important Of the States, carried by BRYAN
In 1895 was Missouri, almost uniformly
Democratic in National and State elections;
1t had not been carried by the Republicans
for thirty years In political fight. In Mis-
souri,, BRYAN, though successful, polled less
than 81 per cent. Of the vote cast. It Is for
this reason probably that former Cover
nor STONE, the present acting chief
| of the Democratic National Commit
tee, and Missour's representative upon
that committee. has been accepted
| generally as the representative of the
plan Of "going it alone In 1900 by disre-
| garding all entangling outside endorse
ments and alliances with either Populists
or Silver Republicans, the Democrats nomi-
mating their own candidates on their own
platform as heretofore without oonsidera-
| ton Of Populists or Snverites or oonces-
sion to them. Missouri is one Of the States in
which the Populists never have been numer-
GUS. The Democratic lead in 1t was rather
diminished than promoted by the alliance
with them. The Populists are in many
.ses former Prohibitionists and the Silver
Republicans so-called, are in all cases sup
porters Of the principle Of protection to
American products and to American labor
in the arrangement Of tariff duties. The
tripartite alliance, therefore, has its disad-
vantages and embarrassmente, especially
for those Democrats Of the South who
would prefer the return Of the party to it's
former declarations Of principle, and who
give little support to the plan Of campaign
imposed upon them three years ago.
AS shown In the proceedings at Tuesdays
Nebraska convention, which nominated
former Governor HOLCoMB for Judge ofthe
Supreme Court Candidate BRYAN Is not
supporter Of the plan Of "going 1t alone"
He 1; political alliance man. decidedly,
and not without good reason. In Nebraska,
In 1895, the year preceding the Presidential
election. there were four tickets in the
field, namely, the Republican ticket. tho |
Populist ticket, the Democratic ticket |
md = Free Silver ticket. Tho Repub- |
Ncan icket was successful, though it polled |
un'y 43 per cent. OF the total vote 1t |
won Lhrough the division Of it's opponents. |
Tioy united In 1890 and were successful |
through fusion, as they we're again in 1 S97 |
and in 1898. Without fusion among It's op- |
ponents there can be little doubt that |
Nebraska would have been carried by the |
Republican party In each Of these elections |
Colorado, which has Democratic State |
administration, was another OF the States |
in which the electoral vote was secured by |
BRYAN three years ago through fusion. |
Colorado had previously been Republican. |
1t came over to the Democratic column
In the Bryan year only through the defec-
ton of Senator TELLER and his Silver Re- |
publican followers.
Idaho, which was carried by BRYAN over |
whelmingly In 1895, ia not a Democratic |
State, or was not such previous to the
contest Of 1890. In the State election OF |
1894. the Republican vote in the State was
10, 200, the Democratic vote 1900 and the |
Popullst vote 7,1oO. With its opponents
divided, tho Republican party carried Idaho;
with the Democrats, Populists and Silver
Republicans united, it went for BRYAN.
Still another Western State carried for
BRYAN Is Nevada. which in the State election
Of Is 1914 for Governor gave the Silver Repub-
lican nominee $500 votes, the regular Re-
publican nominee 8. 800, the Populist nom
inee TOO, and the Democratic candidate
only e7s votes. In 1895, through fusion, |
BRYAN carried Nevada.
Montana, in the Congress election of
1894, had %, 900 votes for the Republican
candidate, 1920 for the Popuist, and
10000 for the Democratic candidate, the
Republican nominee having only plurality.
Two years later, by fusion, the State was
carried against MCKINLEY.
Many Of the old Prohibitionists and
Greenbackers who constitute in such States
list party, socalled, have little real sym
pathy with tho Democrats. 1t may be re-
membered by some statesmen that in
Kansas, the headquarters Of Populist
PEFFER, a Sunhower State pioneer ran for
Governor last year on the Prohlbitionist
ticket. The Republicans carried the State
by a substantial majority.
The case Of New York at last years cleo
ton is pointed out by some Of the advo-
Gates of what Is called Governor SroNHs
plan Of going It alone" as an illustration Of
the advantages Of such course. It is as
serted that without any pretence of al
lance" the Democratic candidates polled
substantial, inadequate, portion Of the
States vote, and a larger total than had
been cast for BRYAN in the Presidential
election preceding. This result, how
ever, was not reached by any re-
jeotion OF Silverite or Populst al
lance. 1t was attained through an