Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-11-28
TuE MKT CONGRESS.

The canvass Of votes during the past
week shows that the Democratic candidate
in the Fifth California district has been
elsted, and the RspubicIn candidate in
the Fourth Connecticut district has bseD
Successful. There remain enough districts
10 which clndidStss are awaiting the re-
sult of the cfi.iA eOant u render it sill
uncertain whether the Democrats or the
Republicans will have a nsjority in the
House Of Representatives Of the FifGy-irst
CDagress.
wess Virginia will send at least three
and problb ] four Democratic Congress
men to Washington, which within all prob
ability decide the complexion Of the next
Cpug,ess. A. any rate, the Dem:c:atic
party can c~ertsinIy await the the deter
mination Of the result according to process
of law without being disturbed and with
ont invoking tbs ma led hand" or the
''claim Of twenty majority" or any other
Of the processes by which B)s3 QUAY pro-
poyss 10 determine the Ie uls Of the cleo
ton.
Ia many respects thu result, too, can be
awaited with eonplIcancy. To be sure If
the Republican party should prove to have
q majority Of barely one, there IS no que8'
tim that those who have furdished it with
money will insist on dspiying many OF
tho sblSOt Dsaoo-Ats IA tbs Hoaoo OF thOir
seats. A score and more Of t~rumpsd-up
contests" have been arranged with this
end in visw. We know Of MATT QUAY's
work in thu Con OCCASIONAL districts OF this
State, in elch of which he has his agents.
Fur this relsou a Republican majority
wouli b. IN evil, as it woald countensncC
subyersion Of tls ballot.
Ia reg Trd to the admission Of new Siates,
an eastern contemporary remarks: TIE
did. rences between the two parties have
not bte1 so great IS to be irrecOacilable,
aad on that score there is no cc;asion for
alarm. II is hardly probable that the Re
plblicanI if in q majority, would again
tlke III, position that Nav Mexico should
be barred ont OF the Union on religious
grounds.
In regard to general legislation, it will
Ia vastly better for the couat5y ~ large to
haze the HOu'e Organized and its commit
tees named by 3 Democratic than By a Re
publican majority. Bot on the other baGd
saci orgauiz Itioa would prevent the Re.
publican party feom carrying out the par
poses of its platform. Such division o.
responsibility, enabling the Republicans
to eyAds the performances of their declared
intentions, woald doub less inure to the
immediate general good, bat it might
tend to prevent the large Democratic ma
iIrity il the Fifty-second Congress, which
would inevitably follow the enactment Of
the Senate bill for buncombe p-O'ectiou"
and the sche mes for vast expenditures
c~puuteuanced by the Chicago platform.
Toe advantages AMI disadvantages Of
control OF the Fifly-ir5t Congress are al.
mos. as evenly matched as the membership
Of the two political parties in it will be
DamDcratic partisan action my seem to
rast with a Republican majority, giv;nS
that party unb-idled license to carry out
its vicious purposes. Cool citizenship
sugg sts, however, that even the partisan
advantage resulting from the reaction from
absolute Republican control would bedear-
ly bought at tie txpsrc, from the sacri.
flee of g-eat pablo interests and principles
for NO years.