The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-23

Vermont; Payne, Of Ohio; Pierce, o
North Dakota; Plat, of Connecticut
Pugh, of Alabama; Spooner, Of Wiscon
sin; Squire, of Washington; Stanford, Of
California; Teller, Of Colorado; Vance
of North Carolina; Vest, of Missouri
Voorhees,, of Indiana, and Wilson, O
Maryland.
Several of these senators have been
returned, while others will have sue
cessors of their own political faith
New York, Wisconsin and Illinois will
send democrats to succeed Evarts
Spooner and Farwell, which, if there
are no other gains, will leave the repub
licans with forty eight senators and the
democrats with forty. Should ingalls,
be succeeded by democrat the republi.
can majority would be reduced to forty
seven and the democrats would have
forty-one members. We assume that
Chandler will steal the New Hampshire
legislature and thus prevent reduction
OF the republican majority to four. On
the best showing for themselves, there
fore, and that by giving them Kansas
and New Hampshire, the republicans
will hold the senate by just eight major
lty from 1891 to 1893. On March 3 of
the latter year procession Of twenty
nine will march out, as follows:
Aldrich, Of Rhode Island; Allen, OF
Washington; Bate, of Tennessee; Blod-
gett, of New Jersey; Casey, Of North d.
kota; Cockrell, Of Missouri; Daniel, OF
Virginia; Davis, Of Minnesota; Dawes,
of Massachusetts; Edmunds, OF Yer
mont; Faulkner, Of West Virginia;
George, OF Mississippi; German, Of
Maryland; Gray, of Delaware; Hale, Of
Maine; Hawley, of Connecticut; Hearst,
of California; Hiscook, Of New York;
Paddock, Of Nebraska; Pasco, Of Florida;
Quay, of Pennsylvania; Reagan, OF Tex
as; Sanders, Of Montana; Sawyer, of
Wisconsin; Sherman, Of Ohio; Stewart,
Of Nevada; Stockbridge, of Michigan;
Turpie, of Indiana; and Warren, Of Wy
oming.
Unless it be California there is not a
doubtful democratic state in the list.
Conceding Hearst's seat to the repub-
licans the democrats would have to cap
ture five republican seats to tie the SEN
ate and six to win. A glance at the
field shows that they have an excellent
fighting chance. Rhode Island has been
carried by the democrats at three re-
cent elections and both the representa-
tives from that state are democrats. A
democratic successor to high tariff AID
rich is strong probability. Minnesota
republicanism has gone to seed and If
Davis holds his seat throughout the
revolution, which is not yet ended, it
will be strange indeed. Hiscock is weak
in New York, and the democrats have a
better show to beat him than they had
to retire Evarts this year. Sawyer, of
Wisconsin, is going to retire on account
of age, and Spooner will try to regain
the foothold he has just lost. The odds
are against him. Michigan will retire
the useless Stockbridge with great
unanimity and if the democrats don't
name his successor all signs fail. 1t is
a foregone conclusion that Montana will
send democrat next time who will not
be counted out. Even Sherman, of
Ohio, and Paddock, of Nebraska, are by
no means sure to have republican sue
cessors either.
The battle for the control Of this last
citadel of republicanism will be bitterly
fought and its progress will be watched
with eager interest. The republicans
have played their last card. They have
taken in all the recruits that the newly
made states can give them. They can
not regain single democratic state;
they must inevitably lose some that
they now hold, if not enough to place
them in minority Should the presi-
dental election of 1892 result in an over
whelming popular victory for the demo-
Gratis. it is reasonably certain that when
the next democratic president takes his
seat the majority in both houses Of
congress will be in political accord with
him.