Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1892-01-16
AGREArPoLITIoALY YEAR.

This will be busy year in American
politics. A president and vice presi-
dent are to be elected, and the 356 mem
bers which are to constitute the bouse
of representatives OF the the fifty third
congress are also TO be chosen. Not far
from a third of TIE lightweight SEN
ators of that congress, TOO, are to be Ell
ected by legislatures which are TO be
chosen this year. A few of the senators
whose terms begin next year have been
elected by legislatures selected in 1891.
but the majority of them are yet to be
chosen, and are to depend for their cleo
ton on legislatures to be provided for
this year. Moreover, most Of the states
will eject governors and other state of
icers in the year which has just begun.
The popular vote of the country for
president in 1880 was S,204, 428. 1t was
1OO4S. O6l in 1891 and IL ,392,3S2 in 1888.
Nearly, if not quite, 12,500,0O0 men will
go to the polls in the presidential con-
test which will be decided on November
Sth next.
We will not say that the presidential
canvass of 1892 will be more important
and be more decisive and lasting IN its
effects than any which has thus far oc-
Cured since 1860. This will often be
said by newspapers and stump orators
on both sides between this time and the
second Tuesday of November. but the
assertion will be extravaganza. Enough
will depend on the election, however, to
render the canvass profoundly Interests
idg to every thoughtful citizen. The
party which elects the president tins
year will secure both branches of con-
gress with him. Generally the house of
representatives chosen in a presidential
year is in harmony with the pres
ident who is elected at that
time. The PARTISAN correspondence
between the senate and the executive
though, is not so close. Throughout the
whole of Cleveland's administration the
senate was IN republican hands. If the
democrats carry the presidency this year
they will also WIN a sufficient number of
legislatures 10 give them the senate, and
thus, for the first time in a generation,
they will find themselves in control of tie
executive and legislative brances of tie
government simultaneously.
1t will be seen, therefore, that great
interests are at stake in the canvass
which is soon to begin. % the result
the election Will, in a large degree,
depend the fate of the tariff and the
finances. If the republicans win, the
protective system, with reciprocity with
the nations and foreign dependencies of
the continent, together with a sound and |
stable currency,w will be maintained. II the |
democrats win, all these will be threat |
ened, and perhaps lost Here are con-
which should arouse the in
terest of every voter. This interest |
should be aroused now. Soon the pre-
liminary work of selecting the delegates /
to the national conventions VIII begin, |
In this work the individual voter can, if !
he will, make his influence felt. Later /
on will come the work of dominating !
candidates for congress, ana here he can
impress himself still more directly and !
potently ON political affairs. Then there
is the task of forming campaign clubs to
be done, and of effecting a general or
ganization of the party for the campaign.
The intelligent citizen will find much
to think of and much to do in political
way in 1892, and he will have abundant
to make his influences felt in
the making of the nominations and the
formulation of the policy of his party