The Red Cloud chief., 1914-05-14
1t All Depends

The political situation in Nebraska
is peculiar. With three tickets in the
field democratic, republican aud pro-
gressive democrats will elect all
state and congressional candidates, and
llll M ST hll the county offices.
Bat who can say that the two
branches of the republican party will
nominate separate tickets? They may
:.get together" just like we pops and
democrats used to 90 in the old days.
In three-eornered fight the republic
ans always whipped US with ease, int
when democrats and pops got ''togeth-
err we picked some of the plums. And
that's what the republicans and pro-
gressives will do this year. il they can
bring about plan of fusion.
Some days there appear no hopes
for fusion between republicans and
progressives, the progressive leaders
swearing that they are just as much
opposed to republicans us to demo.
Gratis. A little later the papers are
filed with reports of an almost ac.
complished plan for fusion The fact
is that ut the present time no man
can safely say just what the republicans
and progres sives will do in the matter
of fusion.
Speaking in the interest of the demo.
cratic cause The Telegram advises
democrats to refrain from banking too
much on split in the republican ranks.
he split may never come, and il it
should not co,ne, then the democratic
state and congressional nominees may
expect 20 have a fight on their hands
Nebraska is not democratic state.
True, we carried the state for Wilson
by IL fine plurality, but that was be.
cause of the Roosevelt opposition to
the regular republican ticket. Taft
and Roosevelt combined polled about
twenty thousand more votes in Nebras.
ka than the democrats could muster.
Ii those two factions should get to-
gether this year-welI, in than event
democrats will be compelled to fight
some, and indeed no democratic candi.
date for state office could hope to
win as against a harmonious fusion Of
republicans and progressves. Such a
fusion cannot be entirely harmonious,
because some Of the strongest progress.
i've leaders have openly proclaimed
that they would prefer the success of "a
moss.bacls democrat to the success Of "a
Taft republican, and some of the Taft
republicans have openly sworn that
they would vote always for democratic
candidates, rather than take chances
on a mooser winning an Office. The
tbest hope Of Nebraska democrats lies
in the hope that the democratic state
nominees willbe men who are known
10 be in full sympathy with the ma
tonal administration. A ticket com
posed of such men would win a sympa.
thetic support from free republicans
and free progressives, no matter If the
republicans and progressives should
effect fusion. There are many re-
publicans and progressives who would
feel it u duty to endorse the Wilson
administration in Nebraska, and they
would vote to endorse it, il they could
be sure that the democratic nominees
were loyal supporters of President
Wilson
And SO we appeal to Nebraska demo
Gratis to quit worrying about the re
publicans and progressives getting to
gether on II state ticket. The better
way will be to plan for the nomination
of democratic state ticket SO strong
in its personality, and so strong in it,
allegiance to the Wilson administra.
tion, that it will win the-yotes of those
republicans aud progressives who will
regard the Nebraska election as an
endorsement or a reputation of the
president, and who will feel in duty
bound to stand by the president in hi.
fight against evil interests within ant
without the democratic party lines
Columbus Telegram.