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Show REGION THAT WILL CONTROL The New York Sun thinks that Mr. Higglna will be ' - elected next Governor of New York State, and that the next Governor of the State of New York will ,be the next . President of the United States. " ' '-. " , That may be, but the Sun should take notice that with every census the center of the population of this country is pushed west. . There was an Inspired man once who was Governor of Colorado and half a century ago he declared that as the " -, United States was saucer.' shaped, with a great central valley where the streams from, the east, and west, and r.rrth all merged and became a part of the great river, so when that valley came to its own, the people, like the river, would converge, and, having a common interest, they would have a common understanding and that they would be the controlling power in this Republic 4 That is coming nearer and nearer true all the time. The dominant power is passing from New England and the Middle States and it is centering in the Mississippi valley; hence it is no longer certain that a man who happens to be elected Governor of the. State of New .York in the term preceding a national election will be the candidate selected for President. It happed in Mr. Cleveland's casefthe Republicans Re-publicans in New York were so divided and so embittered that 800,000 of them stayed away from the polls and refused re-fused to vote for Governor, which gave Mr. Cleveland such a majority that he was the logical candidate of his party J ' for the next President. But that is not liable to happen again. The old Northwest is Just now the controlling fac- . tor in the Republican party. The whole Missouri and Mississippi Mis-sissippi valleys from the gulf north is the controlling pover of the Democracy, and we predict for that region that it will nominate the next Democratic candidate for President i |