The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-12
THE NEXT CAMpA,cn
Foreshadowings of the pol,t,o.,
 of lS98. ruggl,

roreshaooWinRs or the POlitIcat O. | of 1896. rogels
 About . dozen more or less coDs.,
 ous republicans, most of wbor, 'pleu'
 one or the other branch of oa.m are h
 and who represent all sections sreSS
 country, have been giving their '. r the
 as to the issues and party prosnoo. 'e"s
 1896. The majority of them. of co.- eN 0
 think that the tariff will be Se front at that time, and many ot 7, Nie
 believe that the finance ousst;on ~ea
 still be of absorbing interest vha. VIII
 next presidential campaign is on,oSs s1s
 upon. The labor question in sorna
 its many phases will, as few of ,t
 think, be more prominent than |,
 thus far been in national c,rn. s
 while the question of honest eIectiaIS
 according to others, will take lesS,.,
 place in the campaign Almost an ,I6
 persons taking part in the svmnos;sn'
 take a hopeful view of repnbIioa.
 chances. If the proper candidates Lt
 put mp by the republican conventios
 and the canvass be conducted With
 reasonable degree of vigor and iptnE
 gencc, they believe that republic,s
 triumph may be looked for with cor
 fidence.
 Ordinarily estimates of chances in
 canvass three years away. even wbos made by close and experienced ohD servers, are not to be relied on yerv implicitly. Personal preference, too q, in this case, is apt to affect the viewn a certain extent, and to bias the iudc. ment The factors in the situation sr. so numerous and so difficult to gusga accurately that forecast at this tina for 1896 will not be very satisfying to anybody. Yet it is undoubtedly safe to say that the chances of the republic. ans are about as good as those of the democrats Responsibility for govern. ment for the time being is in demo. cratic hands, and any mistakes which are made as well as any financial or industrial reverses which the country may sustain will react harmfully on that party. In constructive Legislation the democracy is not strong It has had very little experience in running the government since before the war, and as a consequence it is seriously handicapped at the outset. And at the presentttlme, when its majority in both branches of congress is so great, the temptation to blunder is particularly strong.
 It may be predicted with tolerable degree of confidence that no party in the near future will enjoy a long pc riod of uninterrupted power The days when one party could dominate the country for dozen or two dozen years all the endeavors of the other to gain the ascendant have departed, at any rate for the time being. Federalist blunders, fragrant and repeated, in the early days of the government gave the democracy its long lease of sway, and democratic fol- lies and crimes long afterward put the republican party in power and kept it in nearly a quarter of a century. But the conditions now are radically differ ent from what they were when John Adams and James Buchanan stepped town from the presidency. Neither the of politics nor the tenn per Of party Iead5Io tavoI oSt go- he long-continued ascendancy of any Active canvasses, in which each party puts its best men at the front, and short periods of power are likely to be the order of the day for .he immediate future. On the great questions on which the elections of the next decade or two are reasonably ,ure to turn the people are sep lrated into two approximately equal and it is reasonable to look 'or a more frequent shifting of power rom one to the other party than was Inown in the past Louis Globe Democrat,