The question of candidates for the Presidency is already beginning
to agitate the American politician. If any man who would accept a nomination must be considered a candi- date for nomination—as he certainly must be—then on the Republican side Mr. Harrison must be reckoned as a candi- date. Mr. McKinley is another possible selection, as also is Mr. Reed, late Speaker of the House of Representatives. Mr. Harrison, however, is far more likely to be chosen than either of these two. On the Democratic side it is believed that Mr. Cleveland will in the end be chosen. We hope he will, for we should greatly like to see the third-term superstition over- thrown. It is essentially anti-Democratic to limit the choice of the people. Let them choose the man they think the best, in spite of rules and conventions. The choice of a whole people should be held to be a sort of consecration sweeping away all artificial barriers.
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