Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-08-27
DEMOCRATS CONTENT

The Republican Vote on the Payne Investiga-
ti0n Analyzed-A Bad Outlook for the Party
of Purity in 1883.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
In the last presidential election the re-
publicans carried the following states:
California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa. Kan
sas, Maine. Massachusetts, Michigan.
Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire,
Nevada. Ohio, Oregon, Pennsy lvania,
Rhode Island Vermont and Wisconsin.
The four crucial states were Connecticut.
Indiana, New Jersey and New York. If
the republicans had carried the first three
of that -four; or, if, losing the first three,
they had carried the fourth, they would
have won the campaign. But they lost
all four, and were consequently defeated
by an electoral vote of 2l9 to 1S2.
The possibility of republican success in
1883 depends entirely upon the political
course of the states above mentioned.
There has been no change in the situation.
They talk of carrying West Virginia and
Tennessee; but we have heard the same
foolish talk for many years, and it has
amounted to nothing. There were cir
cumstances of "A very popular character
which gave them phenomenal strength,
both i'll Virginia and West Virginia, i'll
1884, which can never occur again, and
even then they failed IamentabIy in their
expectations. They have no hope for
1888 snve in the eighteen states which
they carried in 1854, and in the four
states above mentioned, which they failed
to carry.
Now, as every politician of sagacity
knows, the republican political manage
ment of these twenty-five states has its
head and center in their representatives
III the United States Senate; and il will
therefore be of especial interest To in
quire how the republican senators from
the States in question voted on the re
port of the senate committee to dismiss
the proposition to investigate Senator
Payne's election. Those who voted to
vindicate Senator Payne are rs follows:
The only senatoI lrepublican) from
California. Both senators (republcan)
from Colorado. Both senators (repub-
lican) from Illinois. Both senators
republican from Kansas. One of the
two republican senators from Michigan
Mr.. Sabn late head of the republican
National Executive Committee. One of
the two republican senators from Neb
raska. The only republican senator
from Nevada. One of the republican
senators from Oregon. The only rep
ublican senator who voted from Pennsyl-
vania, and his name was Cameron. The
two Senators (Republican from Rhode
island. One of the two republican sen
ators from Vermont. The only senator
(ropublican) voting from Wisconsin. The
only republican senator from New Jcr-
sey. The two senators (republican)
from New York.
SO it appears that of the twenty two
States to which republicans look for
success in the campaignof 1886 only
eight, rs represented by their United
States senators, sustained the Halstead
Foraker conspiracy, while fourteen went
dead against it. And yet the Halstead
Commercial has the hardihood to de
nounce the republican senatorial repre-
sentation of these fourteen states as
corrupt" All of which seems to us es-
pecially conducive to republican har-
mony and particularly promising for a
republican victory i'll 1858. Upon the
whole, Democrats can afford to bc quite
content with the situation.