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Show PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. Tho negroes are to name a candidate for President, according to tho report. But If they want to keep up with the procession, they will have to name a lot more than one. The white are going to have half a dozen candidates, at least. At the Presidential election of 1900 there were candidates, besides those of the Republican and the Democratic parties, from the People's pnrty and the Silver Republicans (who united on Bryan), Bry-an), the Mlddle-of-the-Road Populists, who nominated Wharton Barker, the Socialist Labor, with Joseph F. Mal-loney Mal-loney as their candidate, the Social Democrats, who supported Eugene F. Debs; the Prohibitionists, supporting John G. Woolley; tho United Christians, whose candidate was Jonah F. R. Leonard; Leon-ard; and the Union Reformers, who rallied ral-lied under Seth H. Ellis, a total of ten parties in all, though they did not all have electoral tickets in every State. Those of three parties the Democrats, the People's Party, and the Silver Republicansunited Re-publicansunited on Bryan as their candidate, but .besides him there were seven Presidential candidates In the field. The present year there will no doubt bo even more tickets in the field than there were in 1900, with Important changes in the combinations. Thus, Gen. Miles shows n. decided inclination to unite the Prohibitionists and the Democrats under his leadership. It would be a rare combination. Democrats Demo-crats and Prohibitionists! Think of it! Then, there are pronounced lndlcar tlons that the Intimate fusion which has existed between the Democrats and the Populists will be dissolved in the ensuing campaign. The reorganizes will have tho control of the Democratic convention in all probability. The loss of New York to the Bryan wing of the party, with the defection of the South, will prove fatal to the Popullstlc wing of the party. But that wing Is likely to prove a thorn in the side of the reorganlzers; If it Is ignored or suppressed, It will no doubt ally Itself with the Mlddle-of-the-Road Fopullsts, and Is likely to be strong enough to defeat the Democratic party In seme of the close States. As for the Republican nomination, interest in-terest in It has practically ceased. The nomination of Mr. Roosevelt Is conceded, con-ceded, and the contest for the Vlce-Presldcntlnl Vlce-Presldcntlnl nomination Is not likely to evolve much contention. In the campaign, the contest will of course, bo between the Republicans and the Democrats, with such allies as the latter may be able to affiliate with. The Republican party has no outside affiliations; affil-iations; It fights its battles alone, makes the Issues for which It will fight, and Is not obliged to sell Itself to any ally for votes. This bargain and sale has been the bane of the Democratic party since the war; it Jumps at any chance to traf-flo traf-flo principles for votes, and the consequence conse-quence Is it has lost all standing, as a party, in the respect of the American people. |