The Press: The Song of Cleveland

It was the mark of a new era when the peoples of the world undertook the business of government. There were often bloody revolutions when the Third Estate took the ascendency in the councils of nations from nobility and clergy. Is the time near at hand when the Third Estate will be displaced by the Fourth Estate? And will there be a bloody revolution? The trend of events points to a shifting of the ascendency, whether sanguinary or bloodless.

When the Republican National Convention assembles at Cleveland next June, there will be 1,109 delegates,...

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