Arizona republican., 1910-04-21
it Is Nothing New.

republican majorities in three con- sressional districts and the election of democrat in q democratic district by a greatly increased majority might he viewed with alarm by republicans as presaging the rupture of the re- publican party. if such things had never happened before
 This is not the first time that dem "crats have believed that they saw the approaching dissolution Of the re- publican party, but the party has never died and it has never slept very long at a time.
 The tariff has always been a source of embarrassment 10 the party: it is always source of embarrassment to the party responsible for it. no mat ter what kind of a tariff it is The Mckinley law was the cause of the republican reverses in 1890, and the chief contributory cause of the over whelning overthrow two years later. Yet four years afterward the party was swept back into power on high tariff wave So pleased was the na- ton with the Dingiey law that in 1900 and 1904 republican majorities were greatly increased
 Then came the demand for a re- vision. which we have had-by no means a sweeping one-but at least q revision. the most that it was possible To secure. If the new law is not what the people desired, nor what it should be. it is an improvement upon the Dingley law. But il is plainly an unpopular law. made more so by the high cost of living. which. if not re- sultant from the tariff. is certainly coincident..
 The democrats have always con- tended that an essential result of a prices for the consumer. without any compensating advantages in the way of an increased income for him. An unusually large number of republicans seem to have come into that way of thinking, just as they did in 1890. when the high cost of living was not as acute a question as it has become recently.
 An effort is being made to interpret the reverses which the republicans have sustained as signs of an up- heaval in the party, revolt which has something to do with the insur- gent movement and which is sympa- thetic with if. There is no proof of that but rather proof of the con- trary.
 For instance, in the Fourteenth Mas saehusetts special election resulting in the choice of q democrat in that rock ribbed republican district. the repub- lican candidate was an avowed insur- gent. a consistent denouncer of Can nonism and Aldrichism. He appealed 10 the voters on that issue. He was moreover, a tariff revisionist. term which means nothing very definite. HIS ut1llOCldlit OppcLctit was iiipAN" He favored complete reversal Of the tariff policy Of the country, and l for years had been an advocate of the {. broadest reciprocity.
 It was to this candidate that the I majority Hooked for relief. His plat l form promised relief from high l .,;oas Tho rapuhlioan copdidata's niot form promised possible relief in an in ! definite measure. The voters could look 1 neither to the insurgent movement nor | to Cannonism and Aldrichism for aid. ! They naturally turned to out ndout i democracy. as hundreds of thousands Of republicans had done precisely a score of years before. It is not or record that they obtained 1t, but it is Of record that the Wilson bill gave the off-year elections of 1894 the re- publican majority in congress was triumphantly and tremendously re- stored and has never since been threatened until now.
 It is not our purpose to say that things are as they should be, but to show that our democratic friends are confounding a recurrence of popular unrest with the death throes of a great party under which the country has grown enormously in strength and importance.