The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-14
TIE PRESIDENTIAL OUTLOOK

lt looks now very much as II the op-
posing candidates for President this
year would be the same as in 1888.
General Harrison will be renominated by
the Republicans rs certainly as he lives
and does not decline the nomination.
and the drift of opinion and events on
the Democratic side is as plainly to-
ward Cleveland. All things considered,
Harrison is the most representative Re-
publican in the country, and majority
of the Democratic party seem to regard
Cleveland as the most representative
Democrat. Events are shaping up in
such way as to make each the logical
candidate of his party, and the contest
of 1888 will probable by repeated in
1892.
Not only are the candidates likely to
be the same as four years ago, but the
issues also. The main issue will be the
tariff question. Four years ago the
Republicans attacked the free trade
policy of the Democracy as embodied in
the Mills bill, and won. This year the
Democrats will attack protection and
reciprocity as embodied in the McKin-
ley bill. The silver question will stand
next in Importance to the tariff, the Re-
publican party, as usual, representing
honest money and sound finance, and
the Democracy, as usual, the reverse.
Other questions may enter into the cam
paign to some extent, but these will be
fha rnlinD Tho hIioo xui1l
have tine benefit of President Harrison's
excellent administration, which will
help them just in so far as 1t is attacked
and attention called to it's merits.
The Republican party has nothing to
fear in a repetition of the contest of
1888 under these conditions. If they
had the best of that contest in candi-
dates and issues, they need not fear the
result of the next one. We believe a
decided majority of the American peo-
and honest money. and the more these
questions are discussed, and the better
they are understo cd, the better for the
Republican party. This is shown by
the result of the recent election in
Rhode Island. The Republican party is
all right on the issues, and this year it
will be strengthened by tho Mckinley
bill and reciprocity.
AS to the candidates, President Har-
risOn is much stronger now than he was
in 1888. because he is much better
known. Cleveland Is no stronger with
his own party, and not as strong out
side of it. Four years ago he had
the united and enthusiastic sup
port of the Democratic party and con-
siderable following of mugwumps. Now
the Democracy are divided, and the
mugwump contingent has dwindled al
most to nothing. Hills friends will
give Cleveland only q cold and per-
functory support, while the free-silver
men will hold their noses as they take
the dose. Harrison, on the other hand,
will have the united and enthusiastic
support of all true Republicans of all
shades of opinion. Without doubt he
can carry every State that he carried
four years ago, including New York and
Indiana, with probably oil of the new
States-Idaho, Montana, North Dakota,
South Dakota and Wyoming. AS polit-
ical events are shaping themselves, there
is everything in the situation to encour-
age Republicans and make them look
forward to the approaching contest with
entire confidence as to the result.