Tribune's Forecast of Imperialism and the Administration
The New York Tribune is the leading administration paper. Its editor and proprietor was one of the commissioners who arranged the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain. Since that treaty was arranged, his speeches, his articles, and his paper, by some singular or other coincidence, have marked out exactly the course taken by the national administration. And now the Tribune has announced the result of the late election as “an overwhelming victory for imperialism.” If the course of the national administration shall coincide as closely, for the next four years, with this forecast of the Tribune, as for the last two years it has coincided with the other forecasts of that paper, then by the time the four years shall be ended, the results will be so positive and decisive as to convince the most determined skeptic.