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Show HII L. 1 III II.IMH 111' I "I Ul'"l t Wliet'er or not the lutty Ji"l! f pjlltlrral niiwmint known as the Popullil or tlio People's tty lias 'i come upon the Amorloin lo to atay j ; whether, In fsot, It has now reacliol ll lilgliott limit of sueeess or lJut ' emersion from IK swadJllnic clotln, i equipped for lone, strong flglil ' agstnit contenJltur elements, there I" oo iloukt that It has acliloTed clurln ( 1U brlcfcsrrcr wonJcrful success ami I prestige and l IwlloTeJ by rany ot , the molt sagacious pollllclins ol the day to to the lion til tbe path of bath tho great parlies In tho nation. Tint lie adherents should feel elatod oTMlUMKCMM-elntlie late election Is not strange. Tor the Wearer electors , million Totes were caat In the Wet and South, end In tho latter section tbla total would hare been enormously Increased but for the shrewd Demo-cratlo Demo-cratlo tactics which threw the ''Iorc bill" prominently ai an Isiuo to the fore, and brought the waTcrlna; solid Bouth (Irmly back Into line. Thli million or more of votes yielded the following result'. Twenty-tlx electoral elec-toral Tottt, fife United Stales ; lenatora to be elected a l'opullilt or by I'opu Hit Tides, ten members ol the Home of nerruentatlves, tho slain governments In Colorado, Kanias and I North Dakota, and a greatly Increased representation In tha legislatures of f these and aosoral other atatei. Tha leaders of tbe movement may well feel gratified at so stupendous n showing at a time when over nonunion non-union seemed so unfavorablu to third-partyltm, third-partyltm, and they have excellent reason lor the belief that even Ihetu results tlo not repreient the full ruoaturo of their strength, If teited uuJer circumstances where tho people would not bo swerved I from their sincere preferences I y the ' compulsion to choose what they could at best regard as but tha loner of two evils. Ibe vitality of the movement, I however, Is nnothor matter, lias It r the sounJness uf rrlnclplr, Ihecoher- ence of policy, tho oolietlon of elo- menls that would make llsilatforiu the rallying ground of tha Uluileclcnj of both tha other parties? Jllpe as Is the moment fur the disintegration of the old organ Unions, Ilia abandonment abandon-ment of old Isiues, and Iheevolullon of new questions of coclal, luduitrlsl and eiouomlo polity, la It at all certain that the time le equally pro ltlous for tba l'oj ullsi doctrines to find accejtanfo by those who aro larking a uuw light for their jIltlcal patliwn)? We do not think so, any nnro than we think tho recent triumph of Hie Demooratlo parly Is an evidence that In lis policy the country will find a cure all for every political evil. The wholtsale desertion from the ranks ol lltiuMlcaiilim, which formed so striking strik-ing a feature of thu lalecamjalgu, Is In our opinion only the rreluile to a like desertion from the ranks uf Democracy whenever a political creed shall be evolved that comes la marer JljH touch with the Kpular heart an 1 atuii fcl at higher Ideals auj greater perfection Vfi In government- To say that the fight Jtl' will bo maintained by thu uld parties inn along the old lines Is manifestly au K surd, since we uavetoJa) thousands B offrcetrale lleiubllcaui nnl thou- H sauda of rotectlon Democrats. To say jMj that the tnlifl, higher or lower, will I e m thegreat luue of future national contts'a HJ requires a hardihood that .few polltl- Hj claus are lustcsied of, slncu afler V all It amo jnts to llltto more H thau the difference) between twtvdle m, ilnm sul tweed'o dee. It Is not tin H llkelv that silver my (bo u great IsaUb Hjj In the next ctmpilgu, aul It bj BJjj the l'opullits woul 1 hare the prestige HjS of having already championed thu III! cause. Hut to believe that either tha IB) Jlepubllcsu or the Democratic tarty (jit I will survive the century unleas IK radical change In policy are made, l IW j aapeclesof (artisan optimism seldom S exhibited; while tu think that thoparli Mj growlngoutof their ruins will bear H the llutsments aud Attributes of thu Iff I resent People's party Is to admit thai Vfl ' the American nation will become n J f convertto vagaries and Its politics In iLifi deed beoome "an Irldesceut drtani." jjfiK The party of the future la not boru yet, W tfl though to an ubservlng eye the ro- iH VS monitory throis ale not wuullng. |