The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-13
THE SENATE.

The Democrats will be supreme in the
next national House of Representatives.
Their majority will, we fear, be too large
There can be too much of good thing
With hundred or more majority the DEM
ocrats will run great risk of becoming
reckless and doing things which they would
not do ii there were necessity for paying
greater attention and exercising a higher
degree of caution. However, we are going
to hope that the Democrats will from the
first realize the Importance and necessity
of proceeding with extreme caution, and
that they will do nothing to ALLEVIATE the
people before the national election in 1892
There are wise men in the party and it
is believed that they will be
able to keep the brakes on and hold things
level. If they can do this the Democratic
control of the Senate on March 4, 1898,
when the new administration will be inaug-
urated, may be counted upon with reason
able certainty, and ell three branches of the
national legislature will be in the hands OF
the Democracy for the first time in third
of century,
Ii we count Idaho and Wyoming, both Of
which will choose Republican Senators in
few days, there will be in the Fifty first
tine presently Congress, ffty-one Republi-
cans and thirty seven Democratic Senators,
Republican majority of fourteen. The
elections last week made it certain that
Democratic Senator will be returned from
each, Illinois, Kansas, New Hampshire,
New York and Wisconsin, replacing FAR
WELL, INGALLS,, BLAIR, EvARTs and
SPooNER respectively. Thus in the Fifty
second Congress the Republicans will have
majority Of four, the count being Demo
Gratis, forty-two; Republicans, forty
But let US look ahead two years, and see
what are the prospects for overcoming the
slight majority. The states which will
elect legislatures in 1892 to choose success
sors for Republican Senators taking seats
in March, 1898, when the next administra-
ton will be inaugurated, are Connecticut,
Maine, Massachusetts,, Michigan, Mime
sofa, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New
York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wash
ington and Wisconsin. Of these the
reasonable supposition is the Democrats
will carry Connecticut, Montana, New
York and Wisconsin, gain of four, thus
reversing the majority in the Fifty second
Congress. The Democrats also have a
fighting chance in Michigan and Rhode
Island.
On the other hand the following states
will elect legislatures to choose successors
to Democratic Senators in 1892: California.
Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Ten
nessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia
In only one of these-California- there
any likelihood of a Republican being
elected, all the others being certainly
Democratic; and even the Golden state is
liable to send back Senator HEARST, or
some other Democrat who may be vain
enough to think the Senatorship is worth
the high price put upon it. However, we
do not count upon this. 1t will be seen
from this plain showing that unless the
Democrats shall commit some awful and
inexcusable blunder which will disgust the
people and turn the latter against the
party, the next administration will begin
with the Democracy in control of the exec
utive and legislative branches of the ma
tional government, with fair prospect of
a long lease of power.