Arizona republican., 1911-11-11
The Democratic Arab and the Social
 ist Camel.

candidates, their vote showing an in
 crease of 2,O0O per cent over the vote
 of two years ago.
 In eastern states the socialists elect
 ed members of the legislature for the first time.
 They elected a mayor in New York
 state. and mayors in Ohio, Pennsyl- vania, Utah. Minnesota and Mississ- ippi They fell short but a few votes | oe electing their mayor in the i'm
 portant city of Everette, Washington
 Most surprising of all. they almost
 elected their candidate for lieutenant
 governor in Mississippi.
 i It is not improbable that before many years the socialists will be firmly in the saddle in several states: this conclusion being based upon the well known tendency of the demo-
 crat leaders to cater to all new 'isms
 in the hope of gaining strength there
 bv. and upon the equally well known
 failure of the democratic politicians
 to profit from their own mistakes.
 Twenty years ago, when populism began to show strength in many states. similar to the socialistic
 growth of the present. the democrats in several of the southern states and | in nearly all the western states be-
 gan conceding everything the popu- lists demanded. Democratic platforms were written with the sole purpose of catching the populist vote. Very shortly thereafter the pOpulists had grown so strong in numbers that they pushed the democratic organization aside. and the tickets put forth were
 populist tickets. endorsed by the democrats. or there was fusion Of the two parties with the populists
 in control of the organizations.
 Too late the democrats saw their mistake. Within a few years they
 had to make heroic struggles in
 Georgia. North Carolina, South Caro- lima and in other states to re-establish
 a democratic party. Nothing in fact l but the specter of the negro" ques- ton prevented these states from be- coming republican when the popullsts were finally defeated. In Kansas the
 democratic party had been so com | pIetely absorbed by the populists that | for several years in succession there was no democratic ticket. and no demo-
 cratic organization whatsoever. When the populists were finally defeated,
 Kansas went republican by hundred thousand majority. For the last ten years the democratic party in that state has been making an uphill fight
 to regain the footing it lost when it
 surrendered to populism, and lately, having become thoroughly reorganized,
 the Kansas democracy is once more a party to be reckoned with. In a special election last Tuesday, the democrats elected a congressman in
 Kansas district.
 But in Kansas as elsewhere, the democratic politicians. failing to profit from their bitter experiences in the past. are once more flirting with the third party. the radicals now being socialists instead of populists. And while success may seem temporarily to have been gained by the surrender of
 democratic principles, the result in the end will be the same-the demo- cratic party will be rolled to the bot tom of the hill in a revolt against socialism. and years will be consumed in again putting the party on its feet
 Here in Arizona it is not at all un- likely that within another year or two the party confronting the re- publicans will march under the banner of socialism, boldly commanded by out snoken socialists-for the lesson has
 to be repeated just so often and the fact driven home, that no party can surrender its principles for the mere
 sake of getting offices for awhile without ultimately having to pay a heavy price for the aid of allies whose aims are to take command for
 themselves.
 The old fable of the hospitable Arab who permitted the camel to stick l. its nose into his tent for shelter,
 then permitted the camel to nudge its
 way further under the covering, and
 finally had to go out into the storm
 while the camel held possession Of
 the tent, illustrates the democratic
 habit and pictures the consequences
 which always overtake the democratic
 party-but happily for the republican
 party, our democratic friends never learn the lesson.
 | Of Dwindling importance.