The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-10-22
THE NEXT HOUSE.

THE NEXT HOUSE.
ESTIMATES INDICATE a DEMOCRATIC
MAJORITY OF EIGHTEEN.
Cut It Nay be LarGer-TErce Great IS
sucs-Warfarc Against Protectica and
the Capitalization ofPower to De Cen
tinUed ct the Polls.
WASHINGTON, Oct, 14.-Three weeks
hence the voters of the United States
Will pass in judgment upon the Harrl-
son administration and the record OF
the Fifty-6Tst Congress at its first ses-
slou. The Cromwellian rule Of Speaker
ReeG, the economic policy of Major Nc
Kinley and the Lodge force bill are
each of them distinctive feature OF the
Republican policy and are to be ap-
proved or condemned at the polls by
the American people.
Of all the issues which will tend to
shape the result, the new tariff law IS
likely to prove the most potent factor in
determining it, because It's effects are so
far reaching and it comes home to every
individual consumer in the land. While
| President Harrison was elected on the
protective tariff issue by a minority OF;
the popular vote, though a majority IN
the electoral college, the Republican
leaders never intimated that they pro-
posed to go to the. lengths OF the
meas, re that has just become law.
The bill has been passed despite the
protests OF large and important element
of the population. Already its effects
are being felt. Prices are slowly but
steadily going up on articles of almost
universal consumption. On the other
hand wages have not acted in sympathy
with prices. The home industries,
which are expected to receive such an
impetus by reason of the new tariff,
cannot experience it until the large
stock OF foreign goods which has been
laid in becomes exhausted.
The effect of all this muss operate to
the Getriment Of the Republicans, and
nowhere more than in the agricultural
States of the West, where the farming
interests are greatly depressed. Sena.
tors Paddock Of Nebraska, Pettigrew OF
South Dakota and Plumb Of Kansas
realized this fully when they voted
against the Mckinley bill on its final
passage, and in doing so they represent
ed the views Of their constituents. The
absence of harsh criticism Of their
votes in the columns Of the Republican
papers in those States proves this in
contestably.
The force bill has had the effect OF
nerving up the Southern Democrats TO a
supreme effort and very few Republi-
cans will sit in the next Congress from
that section. So strong is the feeling
on the subject that Mr.. McComas, who
has been repeatedly elected to represent
the Sixth District Of Maryland as a
Republican, is thought this year to be
n danger CT defeat. The same thing
will apply 70 Congressman Brewer OF
North Carolina, who has twice been
elected as q Republican. No efforts
will be spared by the Democrats IN the
South to carry every district possible
and an increased Democratic represen-
tation may be expected.
In this connection it is advisable to
touch on Q movement which IS attract
ing widespread attention and which is
expected to play an important part in
| the future politics of the country.
refer 10 the Farmers Alliance. The
Republicans are laying the tlatteriDg
unction to their souls that through this
wedge they will be able to break up the
solid South and perhaps prevent the
Democrats from organizing the next
Housl. In this they are likely to be
badly deceived.
True, in many districts in the South,
alliance men have defeated Democratic
veterans for the nomination. This
| happened in six OF the ten Georgia dis
tricts. But it was merely a primary
contest, and the nominees are running
as Democrats and with the understand
ing tLat they will participate in the
Democratic caucus. They well know
that to prove recreant to this pledge
would doom them to future political
oblivion. The Southern Alliance Dem
ocrats will stand by their party.
But in the Western States the Re-
publicaus are trying to utilize the ALI
ance and with some success. In several
States. in close and doubtful districts,
they have indor.ed alliance candidates
or have secured the nomination Of ALI
ance candidates who had been lifelong
Republicans. This IS notably the case
in the Eighteenth Illinois district,
where the President of the Farmers
Alliance of that State is the Republican
candidate for Congress.
This coquetting of the Republicans
with the alliance men may lose a few
districts TO the Democrats. but only
| very few, for most Of the Western
States are Republican and have been
carefully gerrymandered in the Repub-
! Flican interest, and where there is q
Democratic district it is usually large
ly Democratic. The Ohio Democrats
have adopted the system this year and
propose to try it, and great is the wall
ing and gnashing of teeth among the
followers of the grand old party at
what they are pleased to term the in
famous Democratic geTrymanGer."
The following figures will show the
situation at q glance: First we will
take the South. In the present Con-
gress rom that section the Democrats
hay 104 members and the Republicans
Il; in the next Congress the Democrats
will likely have 107 and the Repnb!i-
cans Il, being gain of 3 for the Demo
Gratis i'll the South. In 1883 the Demo
Gratis lost one of the Baltimore districts
by carelessness, Stockbridge, Republi-
can, defeating Raynor, Democrat, by
50 votes. Mr.. Raynor is again q canGi-
date and will surely be elected. The
Fifth district Of Maryland, carried by
Campton, Democrat. by 12l votes in
1883 (he was afterward unseated0 has
been strengthened by the addition OF a
Democratic ward cf Baltimore. While
the Democrats are hotly contesting the
Sixth district, McComas, Republican,
stand to win. In Virginia Professor
Langston is likely this year to carry
the Petersburg district on his merits,
but there are two Republican candl-
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