The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-11-04
CONTENTS.
A Republican Newspapers
Views and su1Reaaioua.

Chicago, 3.-Inter- Oceans Washing.
| TOT: At the headquarters OF the repus-
lican congressional committee. tonight,
they claim q to- al of l56 republican mem
bers in the next House, which is q clear
majority o; eleven il the claims all hold
god. OF this, however, Il ere Is great
doubt. They claim a gain Of one each in
Massachusetts, Virginia, North Caro-
lima, Alabama, Louisiana, Whconsin,
Illinois, West Virginia and Pennsyl-
vanisi two each in Iowa, Missouri and
Kentucky. and three in Tennessee. They
concede the loss of one each in Nevada
and California, and three in New York
They also claim the Senate by Il ma
jori.y of one. Leading republicans claim
TO have positive information that Ma
hone will act With them 10 the oTgsniZ--
ton Of the Senate.
At the headquarters Of the democratic
congressional committee they do rot
concede the House 10 the republican,
but claim it By narrow majority. A
dispaicn received from Duncan 5.
Walker, secretary of the conmite, from
New York this Afternoon, lays: "Repub-
licsns calm the House, but rave net got
it. We will have a fair working ma
j3rity Democrats also claim the Sem
ate by . mejorily Of three. Notwith-
standing the dernoc aiic claims, however,
republ cans seem to have the Honse
beyond que ton by majority Of at least
eight. The Senate, however, is in great
doubt and so recognized by both parties.
Democrats here, foreign and domestic,
bear their defeat with q gosd deal of
fortitude. The fsct is tho result
had been anticipated many days
ago. At headquarters Of the democratic
congressional committee here, there has
been 8 conspicuous absence OF courage
or confidence, since the defeat of the
party in Indiana. Before that nearly
100 hands had been employed in folding
and forwarding campaign documents,
but after the Indian disaster these hands
we're discharged. Silence and gloom set
tied over what bad been hive of indus
try and it was plain TO outside observers
that the democratic backbone was broken.
To-day in conversation democrats are
free 70 confess they were fairly without
hope after the October gale. It was In
diana that. defeated Hancock, said a
prominent democrat 10 day. It was the
decision CT the Supreme Court making
it an October state that proved our
destruction. Amid the wreck of all thei.
hopes the democrats insist that had In
diana elected Landers in October Han
cock would walked into the White
House in March.
In private letter written here before
the Indiana election Garfield said: We
lost Maine, but we carry Indiana. Bull
Run made Appomattox possible. Next to
the loss Of the presidency, the democrats
mourn the loss of the sblest men in the
Senate. Wallace, Eaton, Kernsn, Thur
man and McDona d, have all gons with
The close OF short session. In speaking
of this matter to-day prominent demo-
crat told your correspondent that with
the exception of Bayard there were not
on the democratic SIDE four ADLER demo-
Gratis than those who have been so sum
MARTY decapitated and whose places will
be taken by republicans after March
Whether the Senate will have a working
majority for republicans is still a matter
OF doubt but it looks much as if they
would. Officials of tie Senate now
IN the city are very uneasy. |
Washington business men and |
real estate owners generally the result is |
more satisfactory than otherwise, the |
election Of Hancock implying that COM
plete change among government officials |
would have upset things here. Accord
ingly, during the past two months bust
ness has been almost at standstill. The
Air is filed with predictions and guess
work as to what will be the result Of this,
he sixth defeat of the nationsl demo-
cratic party. Many think it viii go by
he board, Others that it will gather itself
ogether again and come smiling for the
lext conflict. On one point, however,
members of both parties pretty well
gree, that the solid south" will now be
broken. Prominent democrats claim
hat it is utterly impossible for the party
o try to win general success in the north
With ''solid south" milestone hanging
D their necks. 1t is said if two or three
ouihern states would swing into the re-
ublican party it would spike the biggest
un the republicans ever had.