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Show The Reign of the Parties. Deducting the four years of John tyler, tbe two of Millard Fillmore and the fonr of Grover Cleveland, during which tho control may be said to have been divided, the United States has now been governed 102 year (nearly) by the different parties in these proportions: Federalists, twelve years; Jefferson Republicans, Re-publicans, twenty-fonr years; Whigs, two years (nearly); Democrats, twenty-eight twenty-eight years, and Republicans, twenty-six years. At the close of President Harrison's Har-rison's term the rival parties will have had exactly equal innings, and present Indications are that the fight on the "rubber" will bo a hot one. |