Arizona republican., 1899-03-28
NEITHER ISSUE NOR CANDIDATE.

The democratic party is having nc
 better luck in casting about for can
 didate upon which it's factions can
 unite in next years national campaign
 than it has had in it's search fer an
 issue that is likely to meet with deccnt
 favor throughout the country. Each
 succeeding day makes it more certain
 that Bryan will have strong opposition
 in 1900. He persists in sticking to the
 fatal Is to 1 hsresy, which after an- | other years prosperity will be abuut as useful as a last years bird nesE. Many leading democrats who wish il were otherwise know and admit that the re-
 turn of good times has killed evcry
 issue upon which Bryan eXpounded in
 1896, and knowing that it would be
 party suicide to revive the alarms of
 that campaign when work and money
 are plenty they look with disfavor up-
 cn the candidacy of the Boy Orator,
 who cannot be separated from the
 vagaries of which he is the incarna- fion. Richard Croker is openly against
 him, and Carter Harrison of Chicago,
 probably the most influential democrat
 at present in Illinois, is virtually So,
 being now candidate against Bryans sponsor Altgeld, who is running on an
 out-and-out Bryan platform. Besides,
 Bryan's own state has repudiated his
 ideas and thereby virtually repudiated
 him by returning to the republican column. The meteoric appearance of c1, stampeded the last democratic national convention canot be repeated m the next. The halo that crowned his head has vanished before the light of the new prosperity and many of the mil lions of misguided voters who fell down before " hat they believed to be enc inspired regret their lack of com mon sense. Even the pa9ty of blum ders cannot be expected to commit the | supreme folly of naming a man who 1 is beaten before he makes Q step in | the race. Who then can be found to | unite the fragments of a party whose | only common ground is opposition to | everything republican? German was ] probability until recently but he fought the treaty of peace in the face 0f the overwhelming sentiment of the lG!tion. Democracy lcyes him none the
 ess for that, but thousands of inde- pendent thinkers and patriots whose votes are needed will remember his
 ast acts in the senate German would be on the defensive from the start Moreover, the free trade wing of his }arty cannot be expected to enthuse.
 yer man of Germans protection pro
 liyities. General Miles is said to have bee in his chapeau, but his old personality would repel wher- yer he appeared. Certain yellow ewslpapers have endeavored to make
 hero of Miles, but in spite of their | york he is far from being q popular dol Judge Van Wyck of New York : as around his neck the badge of Tam nany. Thousands of intelligent dem { crats would never vote 10 eXtend [ trough him the reign of Croker to I Washington. The silver men of the Eest hate Crol1er and are jealous of F i'm. From selfish and vindietiYe mo- 2 ives many of them would withhold lpport. The suggestion of Henry l Tatterscn that Dewey and Wheeler be le ticket is too fanciful, so far as the andidacy of the admiral is concerned, V , be discussed seriously. Dewey is a o 3pu5lican and has said positively that r e would not accept a nomination from U ny party. This exhausts the list of . roibables. The possibles are numer- n Is Psrhaps, but no one ca1 name d f .an of them who would unify and 2 vify the party, any mere than he can n
 -,+to1 ; ,,,, ,,,,,ial, i+. it embers can agree "