The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-03-08
THE DEMOCRATIC BREACH.
An Exceedingly Dark Outlook for tn
 Bourbon Hosts.

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 An Exceedingly Dark Outlook for the 1 Bourbon Hosts.
 The signs are steadily growing more and more manifest which point to a serious breach in the democratic party. Caucuses on an important question like the seigniorage issue which are deliber- ately and ostentatiously Gisregarded by . powerful element of the party calling them reveal the presence of centrif- ugal influences in the organization af- fected which gravely threaten its in- tegrity and potency. Intelligent dem ocrats concede that the wrangle in their party on the silver question and that which recently took place on the supreme court vacancy matter are de- moralizing and disheartening, and they arc looking for rupture more or less serious on the tariff and bond-issue questions. Both these subjects will be in the burning stage for months yet, as the passage of the Wilson bill before May or June is not deemed probable at present, while another bond sale is likely to be made necessary in three or four months at the latest.
 Nobody imagines, of course, that the democratic split will be permanent. .cr that 1t will affect the party seriously beyond few years. The vitality of great organizations like the two lead ing parties of the present day has been shown so frequently and so clearly within the past third of a century that no intelligent person looks for the aS AsN AE quence of a few reverses, however com- plete and overwhelming they may ap- pear to be at the time. The republic ans, who made clean sweep of the country for president and congress in 1872, were disastrously beaten in the congressional election of 1874, won the presidential canvass of 1876, have had several ups and downs since, and their star seems to be again in the ascend ant. Frequently since the beginning of the war the outlook for the democ- racy was dark, indeed, and in one or two canvasses itappeared to be plotted out almost as signally and thoroughly as was the host of Sennacherib before the wrath of the Lord. but it carried the country, nevertheless, in 1884 and 1892.
 While sensible persons have stopped writing the obituaries of great polit- ical organizations, it is clear now to all sagacious democrats that the imme- diate outlook for their party is exceed ingly dark The responsibilities which absolute power has brought to their party they see have been coupled with duties which the party has been un- able to meet, and this condition of things imposes penalties which cannot be evaded. The democracy is not unit on any great question of the day. Fractional lines of cleavage are drawn in various directions, until it seems to some of its members that the party for the time being is destined to fly into fragments All over the country thu tide is unmistakably turning in favor of the republicans In every state which voted three and half months ago the republicans made immense gains. If president and congress had been chosen at that time there would have been an overwhelming republican triumph. Every special election for congressman which has been held since then, including the one which took place in Pennsylvania few days ago, revealed a striking growth in republic an strength All the omens and augr- ries portend that the immediate politic- al future is to be put in the keeping of the republican, party.-St- Louis Globe Democrat