The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-09-27
EXPECT REACTION
AFTER ELECTION
Country Now Keyed Up-0nIy
Two Parties viii Remain
Eventually.
BY Ernest G. Walker.
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(Mail Special to The Advertiser.l

mail Special to The Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, September l3.--,Iust
when the work of nominations is being
closed out, it may not be amiss to call
attention to the great amount of energy
exhausted, nowadays in getting nomi.
nees into The running. There have been
Eve or six months of it, with all the
attendant agitation. The people have
been more or less distracted-that per-
eentage of them who pay any attention
whatever to the struggles.
Most of the States have already had
as much politics this year, as decade
ago they had during an entire presi-
DENTAL campaign. Little wonder it
will be if many do not become tired
and disguised. The hurlyburly does
not 60 well with business activity. 1t
detracts from social and commercial
activities generally and, all in ALL with
the ferceness of the fray and the pre-
valence of varied charges such as ac-
company campaigns this year is not
particularly edifying.
A reaction may be expected. 1t has
been shown again and again that the
American people will not stay keyed
up to a high pitch of excitement on
| any one given subject. This campaign
of 1912 does not necessarily mean that
the next presidential campaign will be
fought as long or as intensely. Meth
er does this qualification mean that the
progress which has been attained, will
be lost. Political revolutions do not
go backward any more than other revo
buttons do.
But after the election much will
then be taken for granted, which hith
erto has been a matter of contention
A calm win follow and there may be
two or three or more general cam
paigns in this country comparatively
quiet and uneventful, except that fac
tional warfare will be continued, ever
as it was between the Bryan Demo
Gratis and the Gold Democrats long
after the campaign of 1896.
Probably 1912 will stand out as ont
of three or four eventful presidential
years in the history of the Republic
The Tippecanoe and Tyler campaign O.
the 40s is most often mentioned 70
, the enthusiasm displayed and for tn
! vigorous participation of voters in tn
contest. Some strange revival Of in
terest in politics prevailed. Then, o
5 course, the great Lincoln campaign o
party came into power and the Civi
= War, which long had been impending
: ensued
g Interesting as several other presider
f tial campaigns were, including thos
k, of the SOS, that of 1896 marked an in
n portaht epoch in party government
e And since 1896 there has been no tren
e endous interest in the struggle for I'll
election of "A president, such as hi
v been for the last eighteen month
r when the country began to think abol
}. the election of a successor to Pres
O dent Taft.
4 There is bound to be strang
o hodge podge in local and state COVER
n ments clear across the continent durin
IS the next two years. There may be
n strange condition in the federal go
eminent during the same period, b'
4 probably the political fealty of tho'
4 in charge of the destinies of the gene
\ al government will be more distin
y and certain. Republicans and Progre
70 sives and Democrats will certainly
y, mingled in the army of small otfic
! holders, for it is already plain thu
~ no party is to have clean sweep I
these places which count for so muC
= in the orderly conduct of public a
fairs.
lie Eventually it viii make for a clear
n lineup between two political partie
~ There is nothing yet to warrant b
1t lief that there are to be three polite
IS parties in the United States. Some oil
lie of the three will dissolve and be a
lie sorbed but time will be required Fl
the process.