Arizona republican., 1919-07-28

What set to do to show that those who have gone to the people have almost invariably encountered disaster We may begin with President Andrew Johnson's famous Swing around the circle when he ostensibly seeking popular support in his bitter fight with congress, but really begin ming campaign for the democratic presidential nomination in 1868. The president returned to the White House with diminished strength. Four years later Horace Greedy. a touring candidate crush ingly defeated.
 Thereafter candidates for presidential nomina- tions presidential nominees remained at home in dignified seclusion until 1884 when Mir. Blaine stumped the country Blaine doubt the most popular candidate before the country There never before and since. at the time of his nomination who had such enthusiastic follow ing. Wherever he went immense cheering throngs from half dozen states gathered. candidate be- fore since had ever brought such of people. Those who witnessed these demonstrations believed that he could carry every northern state. Meanwhile his opponent, practically unknown remained at home He had been a sheriff and had hanged man; sordid scandal had unjusty tached him; by a fuke he had been nominated and elected governor of New York
 Yet he elected to the presidency Mir. Blaine barely carried the of Ohio where he espe- cially popular He lost New York by less than 1900 votes No could put his finger a mistake he had made anywhere in his tour A single unfortun- incident during his visit to New York by any fault of his owns cost him that tate But everywhere MT. Blaine had been there was a greatly reduced vote. If he had remained at home and especially f he had stayed away from New York he would tanly been elected.
 There presidential campaigning whe MT Prya Mir Mckinley remained in seciusion at Canton courteous ly receiving only such delegations made his home Mecca There peculiar condition that year that would almost certainly have defeated MT. Me Knley if he had gone to the people.
 No doubt a very large majority of the voters those who thought less deeply favored if not free silver MT. Bryan advocated it. concession to silver. The republican convention had adroitly back fired with bi-metaIlism. Mir. Mckinley would never have publicly supported that fallacy and he could not have done it without exposing it to the view of the densest who would immediately have turned to MT. Bryan.
 In 1904 both MT. Roosevelt and Mir. Bryan toured the country We may omit mention of probability that Mir. Roosevelt would have beaten any other candidate any terms; and the fact that ordinary rules never applied him. 19o8 MT. Taft and Mir. Bryan far their going the people. The campaign of 1912 of course be compared with other in this respect. But in 1916. if MT. Hughes had remained home if had kept himself outside the fatal of Cali fornia he would be president.
 We wonder that candidates for the presidency take risks disaster as befell MT. Blaine and Mir Hughes. What a presidential candidate possibly gain is small in comparison with the risks he He at the best but very small part of the people of state. Assuming that his presence had an influence upon audiences and it could not be an overwhelming influence, no more influence has been exerted upon the thousands who did not him than could have been exerted from his home 5000 miles away fact. to the aver age man. the presidential candidate persons is ualy less impressive than the presidential candidate in imagination.
 We will suppose that President Wilson should carry out his program of going to the country. No doubt there would follow from every heated petitions the yield to the president. But the senators would be moved. They would per- ceive in the first place that the petitioners represent negligible part of their constituencies they would know that a majority of the sgners of the presidents party; they would also know that every numerously signed petition bears the names of many persons who do much about the issue way the other. Lastly every senator alreay knows about the sentiment of his con- stituents than he could learn from thousands of tfons and form teegrams.
 On a of this sort the president would be as likely to provoke antagonisms, that would cause apathy to break to his disadvantage, as he would be to stir into active support
 Taking history and circumstances together we have paraphrase of the old reacuonary argument against equal suffrage The presidents the presi- dential candidates place is the home"
 SABBATH MEDITATION
 Beautiful Sabbath, the Father hath made,
 Beautiful whether in sunshine shade
 Precious the memories that round thee cling
 Thoughts pure and holy each time thou dost bring.
 Stately with steppings so vast and grand