Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1908 — FUSION MEN TRIUMPHANT [ARTICLE]

FUSION MEN TRIUMPHANT

Rosewater Beaten; Can’t Keep Democracy and Populists Separate. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 14- —National Committeeman Rosewater, of the Republican party, was again defeated in his struggle to destroy fusion In Nebraska, Secretary of State Junkin ruling that Sophus Noble, of the Second congressional district, may be entered on the primary ballot as a candidate for elector on the Populist as well as the Democratic ticket The national committeeman protested on the ground that the Populist party did not cast one per cent vote at the last election, as required by law to secure representation on the ballot. This protest has been overruled by the secretary of state, and Noble will be classed as both Democrat and Populist on the ballot. The protest against Noble is the last to be decided, fusion being permitted by the secretary in the other protested cases.