Show THE COMING CAMPAIGN ALTHOUGH more mere than a year win will pass before the national conventions of the treat great political carlies will assemble a gentle simmer is already discernible in the caldron and it Is quite likely that from this time onward the heat will increase as the intensity of the partisans becomes more and nd more worked up those who mansa mana the complicated machinery know full well by experience peri ence and otherwise that there is nothing like taking tivie time by the foretop ag that the first blow very often settles tibe the contest the aspect of the situation now is very much mixed because of the great number of inspiring aspiring patriot for the post bost of honor at Wap washington hington it t is like the beginning of any other oiher race some are a long way ahead of others many are an running neck and neck wa with competitors competitor 00 both before and behind t them occasionally a slig slight h t iri ild ament or interruption may ma PW W one a little further alif ahead ay ther her somewhat back and so on it does doea not noti follow that the hind it even now Is going to lose on the arary ary the instances in which he has led d to the front just in time to take prize are more numerous than hose where the man a full length ahead of ef all contestants from the start almost to the finish has reached the winning stand first A notable instance in point is the career cstreet of james G blaine a sen gen aleman regarded as invincible at the cincinnati convention conventi oo of and with greater strength and popularity than any other at the chicago convention of 1882 and aad failed of I 1 the nomi us tiou in each cabe only to secure it after his bis two consecutive failures in 1884 and then be beaten at the polls As things stand now the most conspicuous candidates ou on the republican side are first blaine second sherman third hawley the democrats with the expectation that president cleveland would run for a second term have not given much thought to a nominee if he be were to withdraw at the end of his present term governor D B hill of new bew york is undoubtedly the next foremost man but his bis popularity is a not strong enough to place him ahead of the incumbent the next campaign will doubtless be al a vigorous and hotly contested one T the 6 e democrats can be defeated and tight next time as strong as ever as they have done so often but the R republicans pu public blicaus ans realize that one more defeat will about end their organization |