Arizona republican., 1904-07-22
The Fight That's Ahead.

The Indianapolis News, controlled
 and partly owned by the republican
 candidate for president, sounds
 a warning to the republicans of the
 United States that the democrats have
 mere than fighting chance to csrry
 the country this year. The warning is
 timely No republican of proper breadth
 and understanding will find fault With
 Senator Fairbanks paper for it's candle
 acknowledgement that the republican
 party has a tremendous fight on its
 hands this year. Only the narrowly
 partisan papers and politicians of
 either party believe that it is
 wisdom to "claim everything"
 The men who plan and win
 the battles know that the first step
 toward victory is to take a corroc: view of the enemy's strength.
 And that the democrats are to be respected in this campaign canno- be honestly denied. It may be imposs.b ble to suggest a single sensible reason why the American people should vote for a change with all it's attendant risks ard yet the fact will remain that this year, for the first time since 1892 the demo- cracy has some grounds for hopss of victory. In 1892, as President Harrison aptly said, the country had reached d new high-water mark of prosperity, but Mir. Harrison was defeated. T-e republican defeat was a rout. in fact.
 There is, fortunately, little room to doubt that if the election were tl take place now 1t would result in repub- lican triumph, and republicans will hope that no serious change in the | situation will occur. But on both sid 8 the fight is yet to be organized. Three months is a Ing time in a presidential campaign. The democrats stand ready | to take advantage of every mistake l made by their opponents. For the first | time since the days of Cleveland they | will have the benefit of able leadership | and an abundance of money. Repub- lican papers which are filling their | columns with stories Of dizsensio1s in | the democratic ranks are misleading | their readers. All the democratic | Of any consequence is in the | were sure to win in any event. It FI silly to expect that Tammany will | knife Parker because Parker was not | Tammany's choice. The stories tele- graphed from New York to the effect that the democratic leaders of that state arc unable to get eogether are all moo2shine.
 Some of the ablest political generals the democratic party has ever had will have charge of their campaign. They will have the support of some Of the strongest corporate interests in the land. It fN no secret that the Standard oil interests, the sugar trust, and some of the most powerful banking interes in New York are for Parker. It looks now as if we shall see the anomalous alignment of a large section of the labor vote" and a large percentage of the trusts on the side of the democratic ticket. New York, New Jersey, Con- necticut, Rhode Island, Delaware and West Virginia are the debatab,e statss in the east; Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Montana are the debatable states in the west. In Illino.s republican dissensions have weakened the party Tn Wisconsin there are two complete republican state tickets in the field. Both factions are for and Fairbanks, to be sure, but the outlook for republican success is certainly no better than in 1892, when Cleveland carried Wisconsin.
 Republicans everywhere will be wise to recognize the facts as they now pre- sent themselves. If ehe outlook for Mir. Roosevelt's election grows brighter as time passes, all the better.
 Tn the final analysis, the fact is ap- parent that in this campaign the par ties have resumed their normal posi- tions. with the independent vote of the