Arizona republican., 1891-06-04
A REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRATIC
 PRESIDENT.

The next President of the United States will be Republican or Demo- crat. When the ablest and best posted Southerner at Cincinnati, President Livingston, of the Georgia Alliance, told the leaders who were considering what course the convention there should pursue, that the South was not now ready to join third party movement, and was asked to give his reasons, he responded in these significant words:
 l have no reason to give. l give you facts, not reasons. .-. You may call us of the South fools. But the fact remains, we are Democrats in the South. If you choose to ride on rough shOd with your third party scheme, go ahead. The fact remains there are seventeen states down in Dixies land that won't go with you.
 The South will remain solid and Democratic in 1892 to moral certainty. If, therefore, the widest dream of the widest eyed crank who participated in the Cincinnati third party movement is realized, the utmost extent of its in fluence will be to throw the election into National House of Representatives which hss si143 Democratic majority andwould. slscta Democratic President Tho great qtfestion of the national cleo tioh will be whether or not the men of Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin-States formerly Repub- lican by large majorities, but now rem dered doubtful by the Alliance-are prepared to put the administration of national affairs under Democratic con trol. TIE REPuBLIcAS doubts if they are.
 Before a Democrat can be elected President the people of the Uuited States must face the issues between the two great parties and strike the bal ance between them. There is a perfect clearness as to the Republican position. It is the only broad, liberal, national party in existence. It has distinct principles, which it has courageously obeyed in framing legislation, and stands for everything that is American. The American doctrine of protection is its shibboleth, reciprocity it's hand maiden, sound finances, its firm base and encouragement of shipping and ex- tension of internal improvements its means to the great end which has been sought by our great statesmen for century, that this nation shall be inde- pendent of all the world, self support ing in all respects and dom- inant in political and commercial influence on the American con tinent. Whether in diplomacy, finance or statecraft, Republicans in control of the national Government have never failed to acquit themselves with honor and credit and benefit to the country.
 No such description can be given of the Democratic party. It is narrow and sectional. What it would do in the event of complete investment of the various branches of Government not one of its prominent leaders will or can proclaim. Will it repeal the Mckinley law and plunge the business of the country into another long era of anxious uncertainty while it tinkers with the tariff? Will it repeal the popular sched- ule of that law by which we Lave free sugar. Will it repeal the reciprocity clause under which our foreign com merce is already thriving and promises to take an enormous growth? Will it repeal the Postal Shipping law by which we are establishing quick communica- tion between the United States and American countries to foster that com