Arizona republican., 1899-08-09
THE EAST ISN'T IN IT
Return ot Fir. Lloyd Johnston From
 an Extended Trip.

MT Lloyd Johnston, clerk of the su- preme court. returnsd yesterday morn- 1 .ng from visit of several weeks in the i east. He spent the most of the time
 Washington. He found nowhere so
 pleasant a summer climate as he left l behind him in the Salt River valley. l He was in many places where ther-
 nometers made less demonstration. ! out there WIS everywhere a muggi-
 ness in the air that more than offset i the conduct of the mercury and made fife unbsarable. He was So nearly l overcome in Washington that they alked of taking him to the hospital It was then that he decided to cut his visit short. Washington was in the midst of it's midsummer dullness when aa was there r. was so dull, MT. Johnston says, that Phoenix in the
 second week of August is busy mart n comparison, beside being a more pleasant place to live in at all seasons 0f the year.
 Concerning politics, Mir Johnston says. that if thsre is a man east of '-he Rocky mountains who doubts the re- nomination and reelection of Presi- lent Mckinley, he did not happen to see him. There is about one in ten who dOssn't want TO keep '-he Philippines and about one in five who has some other plan for conducting the Philip pines campaign. other than the way the administration is doing it.
 It is conceded in the eastern half of ..ha Mississippi valley and throughout 1ll the eastern states that whatever figure silver may cut in the democratic national convention, 1t will cut none 2t all in the na,ional campaign. Vc'ers have quit talking about it and caring about it. It is only being discussed at all by politicians. Republicans and gold democrats pretend to be holding ? wake over it. and silver democrats are protesting against its burial on the ground that life is not extinct. l since it hasn't commenced to be of i fensive to the sense of smell. The i only issue of which the democrats are | dead sure is the trust question They i are gingerly feeling of expansion 70 | find out if it is hot, but have not yet | picked it up.
 As to the Ohio campaign, Mir John | ston says it will undoubtedly be the 1 livelieSt in a long senies of off-year | struggles. There is some doubt about | the result Ohio is the only state of it's kind in the Union. It has always | had a big republican majority which | has steadily grown with the increase | of population. Nobody from the ear Hest times was ever able to tell pre- i cisely how big it was. The present ! majority is varously estimated to be ] anywhere from 5O0O0 to 100000. It i may be less than the smaller figure or
  cast majority for a democratic pres dent. but has elected many off-year democratic governors and now and | then 3 democratic United States sen ator by mistake.
 Ohio republicans have not always i been perfectly harmonious and they | choose the off-years for balancing ac- counts and effecting internal reforms. They can attend to these little routine matters in off years without interfer- ing with the republican national ma ch:nery. This is the year for bal ancing the books. Sometimes the bal ancing doesn't involve the election of the democratic ticket, especially if the republican ticket happens to be a faultless one, as MT. Johnston says it is this year. The only biem:shes that any of the republicans see upon it, and a very large majority of the republi- cans do not consider them blemishes, bUr rather ornamental works of art | like designs in glass, are certain finger marks of Senator Hanna, who in a way supenntended it's construction l., is a question after all. if Senator Hanna's active support will not more than counterbalance all the opp0si- ton his personality has aroused.
 The democrats have not ye'1 nOmi- mated ticket, but the candidate for governor will certainly be John R. Me Lean, the strongest man that ever headed a democratic ticket in shat state. He will also furnish abundant money for campaign purposes. He is {, not any stronger in Ohio by reason of ia h.s silver views, but they may not handicap him since the election IS not intended to be an ex- pressiOn cl political opinion on .he . part of republicans so much as an ex- pressiOn of private opinion regarding their own ticket
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