Arizona republican., 1912-04-29
Republican "Misrule"

The democrats are claiming with good deal of confidence that they will win in the next national election They say the country is tired of re publican misrule" and is determined Jo give the democrats a chance
 Of course. all things are possible And il is possible the voters of the United States may be deceived into trying out the democrats. with their free trade policy and all the rest of it, once again. All that is possible, but jt is hardly proba bIe. It is possible that a duck will abjure the delights of q placid and accessible stream. but it is not likely The trouble that besets the democrats is that it is not So very long since the people tried them out the last time. And the trial was by no means satisfactory one as many Of us recall
 u was along in 1892 that the coun- try got tired of republican misrule' and proceeded to elect d democratic president. In fact they did a good job or 1t while they were about it. for they gave the democrats control of both branches of congress. And then Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated, the congressman were sworn in and the politicians proceeded to get busy
 The result is readily recalled. It is 50 distinct in the minds of everybody except the very young that a recapitu- lation Of the occurrences of those four trying years is unnecessary, The re- suits of democratic "statesmanship' and democratic economy" from 1893 10 lS97 were so disastrous that at the close Of MT Cleveland's term a re- publican was elected by the largest majority that had at that time been given any candidate
 For fifty years republican policies have been in effect with the exception of hiatus of four years And if those policies are to be charged with whatever has gone wrong it follows they are also to be credited with whatever benefits have accrued.
 Now, what is this ''misrule" from which the democrats and the insur- gents are going to save the country? IT is a msrule that has given this country an expansion that is the mar vel or the age It is o misrule that has increased the per capita wealth from S307 in 1850 to $500 in 1912 It is d misrule that has increased the number of savings bank depositors from 1000. 900 al the close of the Civil war to nine and q half millions last year It is the kind of misrule that has increased the savings deposits 700 per cent in within thirty five years It is the kind of misrule that has increased the factory output from d billion dollars in 1860 to twenty and a half billions in 1910.
 That is the sort of misrule from which democracy and insurgency are to save us. And just what democracy and insurgency have to offer in its place has not yet been explained. We know it has something to do with the vagaries of Bryanism and the i'm possible theories of LaFollette. But that is all the infOrmation that has been vouchsafed We, are told the republican party isn't progressive, that republican policies-the policies that have been the glory of this coun- try-will have to go and that in their stead is to be substituted the fanciful and impractical dogmas of insurgency.
 But nobody need be alarmed. There is just little too much good sense and good judgment in this country to make a substitution of that sort pos Sible Furthermore. the last time the voters saved" the country from re publican misrule" is still fresh in the public mind and it is unthinkable that d majority of the people are anxious for repetition of the ex- perience which that salvation engen- dered