Daily Republican., 1881-11-01
The Future Of the Democrats In
the Senate.

1l6 )emoCfa'lc l Hllcd SN"'o' o'hh
tors have made "a poor record for thelr
party during the recent extra session OF
the Senate. The first thing they did
when they met was to elect Seuat9r
Bayard to the office of President pro-
TEN. of the Senate, only by keeping out
three Republican Senators, until their
plan of usurpation was Completed, ant
they were fully prepared to seize by
fraud the presidency, if any accident
should happen to President Arthur or
if he should die. This they did with
out ia king the trouble to find cut that
their disrreditable behavior wa. OF a
piec with this in folly. They cX
pected Judge Davis to help them
through with their sch ame Of usurpn
ton, but the Judge not inclinipg il
that direction, they began to abuse him
and since he cast an independent vote
they have done what they could to
make it impossible for him, without
loss of se.f respect, to cooperate with
them in any matter of party cons9.
quence AS \ result Of the folly OF the
the Democratic attempt to seize the
government, we find Senator Bay&rd
hnrled contemptuuusly from the rira
Gle of honor, into which he sutt red
himself to be thrust, after two days oo
clpancy of the position and made the
butt OF ridicule of the ration and the
world. What is most remarkable is,
that the Senator for whom so much
fairness, intelligence, libera'ity ana
candor W as claimed, never once thought
of declining the position which he
knew should not be bis. 1t need not o.
thought strange that public respect fol
Senator that would thus act is rapidly
dying out, and the same feeling o. dis
gust which has turned the Democrats
out of power in the Lower house l.
likely TO be shown in other elections in
the different States until the Senate is
entirely reformed, and placed under
thorough Republican rule again. From
all appearances the next general e!ec-
ton will put an end to all the posi-
bilities of Democrats control in that
body.
Sci ators from Alabama. Arkansas.
Kentucky, North Carolina, Texas,
Delaware and West Virginia are to be
elected in SS3, who will probably all
be Democrats, but it is not 80 certain
that DemocI ats can be elected the same
year from Georgia, mississippi, New
Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, TEL
nessee or Virginia. We are certain
that they cannot in the Old Slave States
last named, if any thing like fair and
full election and fair count is. per.
mitted The seats from these State.
are now all occupied by Democrats. Ii
is evident that a Republican will hc
elected from Illinois to make tie half
way u'ii'iebtS u ou'lS' l''tNIH. IN
New Jersey, where the Srnat RS chosen
this year will vote for successor to
Mr.. McPnersOn, and whore, Of the toIr-
teen Senators holding over, ten are t..
pubicans, ,ana the prospects of kepubl-
can success are good. Oregon has nov "A
Republican majority Of twenty two on
JOINT ballot in the Legislature, which
ought to terminate the public political
career Of Senator Grover next year.
The main contest, however, il in
Virginia, the Legislature elected next
Tuesday b-lng the one that is to elect a
United States Senator to succeed SeLa-
tor johnson. If reports are to br re-
lied upon to any extent there is no pos
sibility of a BAurbon majority in the
Legislature, even though Bourbon
Governor sh hould be elected. This viii
not only strengthen the Repubicans in
the Senate, but it will be tho entering
wedge W hich will eventually split the
solid South, and result in the election
OF liberal Senators from the Caroliaas
and all the Gulf States. We are not at
all surprised that the Democracy
is excited and troubled over their i'm.
pending defeat in Virginia. It was
very easy for them to ostracise Senator
Mthone-very easy and perfectly nat
ural for an nhprincipled organ in this
city to call Kim "dog" Malone, but
now when there is every prospect of
MahOne triu nDh in Virginia there is
rot so much chuckling glee in the Dem
ocratic camp, and we are not surprised
that the very refined Bayard organ of
this city snaps and snarls and turns up
lis hair lip at the prospect of seeing
two dogs in the Senate. We are not
surprist that the patronage Of little
Virginia Post-otlice under the prospect
of losing the State, throws the Dem.
osracy into spasm9 of alarm. How
ever, the anti Bpurbona can bear it.
1t is grist to their MILL and makes
them still stronger with the people. If
the NJ shone party succeeds next week
the Bourbon S14at,r from that State
will not orly lose his seat next year
but other and far more Important re-
suits will follow. Senators, Lunar Of
Mississippi ; Harris, of Tennessee; Bat
Ter, of S'uth Carolina and Hill, of
Georgia know that their seats will in
that case be in LANCER. If The power OF
the Bourbon Democracy can once be
broken, so that an honest election and
fair count can be bad in the southern
States quite number of them will
t.hOnye IRepuhliran San afors in tha yprv