Arizona republican., 1899-04-06
WARM FIGHT AHEAD
Red HOE.CdmDoign This Year
in Nebraska.
The Contest Will Assume Unusual
Significance Because of The Bear
ing 1t Will Have on RTyan'S Can
didaCy Next Year.

Washington. April Representa-
returned to Washington from thas
state. He says Tie election
there this fall, although only
a supreme Judge and two
regents Of the university are to be bal
loted for. will be a contest of unusual
significance. On the judgeship the
fight will assume strictly party lines
and coming as it will just year before
the presidential election, in a state
which gave Bryan a plurality of 49,
SIS in 1896. will be watched by the
nation The democrats will probably
nominate William V. Allen, whose
term in the senate expired East month.
The only other candidate mentioned is
Ex-Governor Holcomb. Either would
bring out full vote and so afford a
good test of Bryanite strength in the
state.
AS between them. the understanding
is that Holcomb, who lives in the dis
trict which has been represented in
congress by William l.. Greene, who
died q few weeks ago, may be nominat-
ed to fill this congressional vacancy,
in which case Allen will have no rival
for the nomination for supreme court
judge. The republicans have not de-
cided upon their man yet, but will try
TO pick out somebody equally repre-
sentative OF their party in the state.
Between two such candidates at the
polls the result would almost certainly
forecast that of a year hence, provided
the two parties continue on the same
platforms respectively In 1896 Bryan
received 50 per cent OF the vote of the
state and Mckinley IS per cent.~ In
1853 Poynter, fusionist, received SO
per cent in a gubernatorial contest,
and Haywood, the republican nominee,
nearly 40 per cent On the rest of the
ticket, congressional and legislative,
the republicans were more successful.
They carried the first district by
$500 votes, the second by 928, and lost
the remaining four districts by ma
iorities aggregating 4,800, thus leaving
the fusionists with majority on
congressional ticket in the state OF
about 1900. The republicans, however, !
carried the state legislature by a ma
jority CT thirteen on joint ballot. and |
have elected a republican United States
senator.
The state is thus in that peculiar |
condition of closeness where the out |
come of next falls balloting will be |
very interesting. If the republicans |
carry the state by substantial ma
jority, it ought to put an end to Will
liam J. Bryan as a democratic nomi
nee. 1t would seem to prove that he
could not carry his own state. But if
the republicans carry it by a trifing
majority. it will be argued that Bryan's
candidacy is just what is needed to
save the day.
Everything points to a warm fight.
Allen and Holcomb make any contest
into which they enter picturesque. The
republicans will not be outdone in the
selection Of talent for stumping the
state and it would not be strange if the
most significant election held any
where in the union November next
would be that of Nebraska. That state
has recently come into considerable
political prominence The best joke CT
the Indianapolis convention which
nominated Palmer and Buckner was
on Nebraska. When the roll of states
was being called for the presentation
of candidates, the chairman of the Ne
braska delegation arose, when his
turn came, and said: Nebraska feels
that she already has one candidate too
many for the presidency" The cont
ing election in that state will do
good deal in determining whether she
will continue to have that extra can
didate.