Show COUNTING CHICKENS CHIC KEhS TOO KABLY EARLY TwE THERE can be no doubt in the mind of a careful reader and studious thinker that the political battle of next year will on the single issue of tariff reform vs protection or that the leader on each aide is virtually cli chosen osen tile the presidents message had the effect of making party lines well defined but jus tile the respective of tue panties stands is another matter tn in toe tae west are a large number ot of wool growers and raining mining men whose financial interests wid ause them to ignore party affiliations and vote vole forthe for the candidates w buo no favor the retention of the present tariff on wool and lead and this will be an immense augmentation for the ra republicans public ans in california nevada and colorado it will also have its effect in a I 1 less ess degree in some of the other states and upon this showing made so far in a advance lovadee the republicans are or profess to be jubilant but arethay are they not dot in ill some reckoning recko Bing without their host even if it be coc conceded ceded that such strength will be gained fortham for them in il the slat M s named and in all the territories it is still well to remember griat none ol of the states west ot of the missouri cast their elt electoral ceoral votes for mr cleveland three years ago and that the territories have nothing to say ip ili the matter besides there is a certain quantity of tariff tang reformers in the republican ranks weigh in iowa Mic Mici DUan Agan wisconsin nd akots amounts to a host su so it would seem that that party will only be gaining where gains are not particularly ticul arly needed and losing lobing where it ou lie them to be on the kew keen lookout it fact a prom prominent ineat politician recently made the declaration that iowa which has never yet tailed failed to cast its vote for the republican presidential nominee and which gave gen grant majority when he first rachad been completely completely revolutionized ionized by the presidents president a message uld and the temperance isue asue and would next ai creland cu Cw eland electors this able of course is only a prediction but it is based upon logic and experience and shows that in tile the minds of a great many people the position in which the president is placed is ed by the old saying athe the loss of one is the gain of f a dozen |