Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-11
AN UNBIASED VIEW.
From the Chicago Times.l

With q single exception the DEM
Greats have lost nothing which they
grained in 1884, when President Cleve-
land was elected. While they were
busted in carrying the Indiana legisla-
ture they lost some minor state officers
.by q small and uncertain majority.
But they held New York, Connecticut
and New Jersey, which cast enough
electoral votes, with the solid south, to
elect q president. They did still bet
ter. They have gained California and
Colorado, with Oregon, which elected
q democratic governor in June There
is no reason to suppose that the change
in these states is attributed to any
peculiar cause, or is a mere popular
freak in politics. Ills evidently a rev.
olution, and there is nothing to show
that it will go backward instead of for
ward.
If q presidential election had been
held this year, and had all the states
gone as now reported, a democratic
president would have been chosen by
21S electoral votes to 1873 for the repub-
lacan candidate. In 1884 Cleveland
had PIG electoral votes and Blaine 1872.
Deducting Indiana's fifteen votes from
-tAe democratic eide would leave 204,
which would be a majority of the cleo
toral college,. But to this number is
to be added eight votes from California,
three from Colorado and three from
Oregon, making 21S in all-only one
less than Clevelsnd's vote. The dem
Ocrats have, therefore gained a national
victory all but a. complete as they
gained two years ago. The democratic
administration has received a popular
Endorsement and a vote of confidence
that are decisive.
In another direction democrats have
made most important gains, and the
republicans have suffered losses of the
most serious character. The present
United States senate contains forty-two
republicans, including Ri%ddleberger,
and thirty.tour democrats. In the
next senate democrats will take the
place of Republicans from California,
Indiana and New Jersey. They will
reduce the number Of republican sena-
tors including Riddleberger, to thirty
nine, and increase the number of
democratic to thirty-seven. RIddleber-
ger il so certain a quantity, and his
political future is dependent on the
democratic party of Virginia, that he
II as likely to act hereafter with the
democrats as with the republicans, as
he has at times heretofore done. Such
Q change would make a tie between the
parties in the senate for the remainder
OF President Cleveland's term, with a
chance that q seat on the republican
side may at any time become vacant,
which would render the government
democratic in all branches-On presi-
dent and in both houses of congress.
Still more may be added. In most
of the strong republican states repub-
lican majorities have dwindled away
to small %pluralities OF to almost moth
ing. Iowa has lost nine-tenths of its
republican majority. But for the di-
version of the labor vote, not the social.
lists, but the genuine workingmen-to
. separate candidate, Wisconsin
would have gone democratic. The re
publican majority in Michigan is slim
and not reliable. Ohio, notwithstand.
ing the scandals and frauds of demo
cratic origin that have weakened the
democratic party more than call be-
described, is almost a doubtful state
The growing tariff reform sentiment o
Massachusetts is making it a demo
cratic state. Probably the popula'
democratic majority IN all the state
that have voted i'll 1886 is hundreds O
thousands OF votes.
On the other hand, the Democrat,
losses are not great, and + not of
vital character, like the republican
losses. The democrats will have
smaller majority in the lower house o
the next congress than they have i,
the present house. But it will be sufi
Gent aud a he better handled than
larger majority. The loss of the stat
ticket in Indiana is more than counter
balanced by the gain of a United State
senator. The popular democratl
majority in New York is less than Gov
Hill received a year ago, but it is teI
times greater than President Clevelan,
received two years ago.