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tho Speaker and control the Organization aod
Committees, ~ well as tia locislat,vn OF Tue

I next House.
According 70 cur count, The revenue re-
\ formers ailI have In tar usxt Il ,use l22 yotes.
tie tIotectiunistA. RNi h1re 76 yuta,. .,,a
there aEe Is mennters eh1ss opitisns We Do
rot know well enough TO deelgn,te them. O.:
these, Eowover, it Is probable that At last A.
mauy VIII vote for revenue reform u for o,o-
tec'son. Thero Is no doubt that the House.
uheD dfEides on thu question. will ahoT =
How las ti,is teou acoomplishe4i3 Shnr,,v
9ttef,tbe Indiana eleotioo,- IL October, -Ysas
Ereef3ent Colfkx made publio what hs b..
HeSea 70 10 tho ck.sea Ct thc defeat OF thu
Republicans ahera. Hn ahoxea, By curions
a1tay of hgures. that tAo Republicans we're
bsatcn. frzt. becsuse mary Republican votsrs
s.:s5ed nway feom the pellA; sccoad. because
~ Was = positive year OF political dlssdee-
tsor. Ct t!ckes-apGtting, II veil As ot not yot-
iog 'ickets At sll." A e1amples, he showed
ths, ia eeven dists1ct4 Reruhlican candidstsa
10, tne Legls!atu!s vore botten, wailp the Re-
publican Stale ticket had majority in them
~ The only Congressional dist nc. where,
by Republican disaHectiou, Z Congressman
jcrity." A'.-
Nov ttckt t-s7li..ipg probably .ppeara To
Ms. colia1 tho sIavtss Of political crimes;
Though to others it IL o1e Of the bcst elgos
that The American cisizsn thinks Tor himseI.
and IL not nero machine. It is tho disc1i.
@ nation exercised By voters, nnd MOSTLY hy
Nspnblican voters, which kas put msiority
O. hesenne NetoEmers into ihenexk Cougvess,
Ihe Ee+nt"g Post du'ing the summer faith.
fuiiy uatned tho Republican politicians th,,,f
they wished success they must not aouicste
monol oliHts, OF lsnd. .grabber:. or men cr bud
character; thxt their only euy to succc.. wus
to take up civil service and revenue reform.
aId nominate their best men. The resul: las
saoNn tAe W1sdon OF this warning. In Almost
every inftacca in which Z civil service and
fexetno r.iorner wAs nominated by the r.
patltcnrs, be was elected BY tho people but
IN multitude OF care+, uhera theynoninxted
ptotecuou1sss md hack politicians, tk,y were
We have before called attention to the
peoples verdict IN the October eIoc.inns upon
seue OF the EaonoIrolists. No l.as thsn six Of
tAe Fenas!lTsni.ns who voted 10 keep up The
nigh price Of salt, steel and coal. wets re-
lscted IN ctucua OF 1t tho polls; Den Nc
Castny, Martin Welker aad Eli4kita Il. Moore
ssbepeF ss5e 5FunTsx oa 1ses,sa Y shsF Ps1,y
Stewart, Armstrong. Gilfllan, the inost pro-
ncok ced rnouopoiists, were defeated At the
polls II districts which belore uniformly. SUD-
ported their partyi in several districts whefe
resehue Ieforsnera had been nomInated-for
example, the First, Second, Seventh and -Four
teenth OF Ohio-handsoma gains we're nsds.
suits.
In the First Alabanua District, Buck, one of
tho most Intense nonopolsts, Ia left at home,
aId Notris, another, y defetted by = Demo-
crat in the Third District. In the 3;1ts Nichi-
Esn District. Strickland, who haa voted for
every scheme Of tho monopoIis,s, waa d.
ieated In the convention by Dngge. who was
IN turn defeated 1t the polls by revenue
telosm Democrat. The devotion of General
Pane to monopoly has give the Fisat N'iscon-
fin District to the Democrats, who elected
Aea Ande1. Mitchell. : good man, BY oysr A. 900
ns1orty. The FustVlrginia District has bean
List In tho same way. brown and Hoge wero
defeated in South Carolina. Not less thau
I've pronounced protectionists lost their dis
hicts In Tennessee, whilc Butler and Mavuxrti
we're nominated and electeu, With greatly Re.
dnccd tna1oEities. only by the corrupt use OF
power IN To Of the strongest Republican dis
OF special significance was tho result In
Arkansas ard Vest yirginia- Tho First and
Third Districts Of Arkansas arc represented
bv Roots srd Boles, two Of the worst mouopo-
Lists IL the Houee they have both been de-
eeven thousand. On The contrary, h tle
Second Mstzic. Of Arkansas the Republicans
nominated liberal nan, and the people clect-
ed him, although the district kaye large
Democratic majority in 1868.
West Virginia is now represented by three
monorolssts, Who were elected BY large ma
torisies. In the next Congress the First aud
Third Districta will be represented by Demo-
ct8te. while AcGrew's majority in tho Second
thousApd.
In the Eighth Illinois District direct issue
Nas made On the tx5a, aDd shs Deu,nc,atic
candidate, James C. Hobirson epoke IL alraoet
every town ia favor Of revenue reform He
overctnc the very large Republican majority
CT two ycAfe ago, mud was elected On that
question. On Tie other hand, the Republicans
OF the Second Minnesota District gained
member Of Congress- BY placing General
Throughout the whole list Of Cougreesmen
We can only discover two monopolist gains
that Of II. E. HAveus, in the Fourth Missouri
District, and that Of Chs1les Il FarTe1l, a
member Of the Cbiago city ring. who super
sedes Mr; Judd in the First Illinois
District the monopoiist losses number
more than forty. For id addition to those
slEeady enumeratel, in mary districts where
there ~as likely 10 be / contest, the Repub-
licans were wise enough to take ne. nen
In this WAY Congress has got nd OF Ferris,
krapr, L.ain. Churchill, Kelsey, Hotehkiss.
Ftsher and Sheldon in this State. who all voted
sos almost every measure Of protection.
The result OF the canvass, aside from the
victory Of revenue reform and elril sefyice, is
that the Republicans have Loaf thirty districts
vhlsh they carried two ye.rs ago. Had the
bad tt boldly pisoed itself on the platform Of
civil service and reyenue reform, It would not
be mortified by these Losses.
OF the 142 members who will vote for reye-
nue. reform, about 60 will bo Reppbhrans.
These will no doubt control the organization
Of the House; for, while tho ablest and most
aggressive among the monopolis:s have been
left at home, the revenue refotmera have in-
Geased their force In ability \. well "a IN nun
be1s. Freeman Clarke, Of this StAte; Samuel
Shellaba1ger, James Monros, and Aaron F.
Perry, Of Ohio; James u. Wilson, Of indiana;
Henry Watd1on, Of Michigan, and other nov
members. will materially add TO the efficient
Congress and have been ra-electsd.