Arizona republican., 1910-11-10
PHoENx, ARIZONA, NOV. 10, 1910
The Election.

The election of Tuesday was vic tory for the conservative wing of the democratic party and the insurgent wing of the republican party.
 The democracy of the nation has a right to feel encouraged. While the victory is not equal in extent to the Cleveland landslide of 1892. it is DOT tentous of democratic possibilities in the presidential election of 1912.
 The situation is especially encour- aging to the old line democracy, which has chafed and fretted under the ty- rannical rule of Bryan and his popu- Iistic- -socialistic following. The fine run made by Dahlman in Nebraska, in the face of the Bryan bolt, has sent Bryan stock to a low ebb. Most en- couraging of all to the old line dem ocrats is their victory in New York, New Jersey Connecticut and Indana, the four pivotal states upon which
 
 days before Bryan and the populists gained control of the party. In each of these states the conservatives were in full control of the campaign. And while the democrats always liked to count Ohio among the "doubtfur' states, they have seldom got as much comfort from the Buckeye state as in this election, in which Governor Harmon. opposed by all the strength of the national administration, was triumphantly reelected.
 The Ohio result would seem to give Harmon a clear and undisputed lead for the democratic nomination for president a year and half from now.
 A review of the whole field dis closes Arizona as standing practically alone as a follower of Bryan radical ism.
 This election does not, of course, put the republicans out of the run ming in the next campaign, by any means. That the party will come out of the ordeal greatly strength ened is a foregone conclusion. The time had come for a house cleaning The masses of the party were tired of the bossism and tyranny of Can non and Aldrich. Cannonism and Aldrichism were responsible nearly altogether for the insurgent movement n the party. That some of the insur- gents-notably Senator Beveridge- went down to defeat was a mere in- cident to the movement of re- volt, for when the voters of al party determine to administer a rebuke to it, the extent of the rebuke cannot be controlled. Nor, much as the democratic politicians like to think it is the case, does the democratic victory eliminate" Roosevelt. Taft and Roosevelt have suffered, not be- cause of revolt against them or their 1 leadership, but because, as we have said, of a party insurrection against l party bosses. These bosses, insolent in the pride of unchecked power, had | tried the patience of the party too long.
 But the presidential election of 1912 | will be decided by the great army of independent voters. These voters | have been casting republican ballots | since 1896. They were affected by | the general feeling of unrest which | everybody recognizes and nobody sat isfactorily explains in full It is idle | to expect that this unrest will disap- | pear before the next national election. | Everybody is dissatisfied with the high cost of living, and much more | will be expected of the new demo- cratic congress than it can perform | Unless the democratic leaders have acquired more wisdom than they have | ever shown, they will perpetrate the same blunder they did after their vic tory of 1892 and try to fasten free trade upon the country. They will | find, as they found before, that the country is not for free trade, ana is not willing to abandon the principle of protection-in other words, they will disappoint the independent voter, as they did in the early nineties. And history may repeat itself. to the extent of showing a republican landslide fol- lowing a democratic avalanche.
 It is only certain that the states manship of the two parties will be put to the severest test during the next two years, and upon the record thus made the country will render its yer dict in 1912. Happily. for. the repub- lican party the democratic party al-