Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-01-24
PROSPECTS FOR 1890.
They are All That the Democratic
Party can Desire-The Democrats
get the House this Year and Make
All the Arrangements for Getting
the Presidency and the Senate.
From the National Democrat.

From the National Democrat.
The year 1890 promises to be of the
utmost interest and Importance to the
Democratic party. 1t brings to the
party the opportunity to recover pos
session OF the popular branch of Con
gress and of strengthening itself in
the unpopular branch, as Speaker
Reed once facetiously styled the Sen
ate.
AS Ex-President Cleveland said hap
PLY, "we are the party OF the people ;
they cannot take that from u.s." and
as the House of Representatives comes
nearer to representing the people than
any other branch of the government
does or can, the Democratic chances
are better than they are anywhere
else. Besides this, the political cycle
contains promise of q Democratic
victory by large majority. The po-
litical orbit of the House appears to be
eight years of which six are fat Demo
cratic years and two are lean Repub-
lican years, thrown in apparently for
no other purpose than to let the coun-
try see how much better off it is un-
der the party of the classes. The
Democratic party elected large ma
jOrity of the members of the House in
| 1874, and retained the control OF the
house in 1876 and 1878. The Repub-
licans got possession in 1880, but it
was evidently by inadvertance on the
part of the people, for ut the very first
election thereafter the people elected
a very large Democratic majority and
the Democrats retained control of the
house in 1854 and 1856. Again the
eight-year period was completed by
the election OF Republican majority.
This vii. serve a useful purpose; it
will show the people how absurd it
was not to elect Democratic ma
jority and next November they will
repeat 1864 and 1882 and elect House
with Democratic majority OF seventy
or eighty.
WE ARE REACHING OUT AFTER sENA-
| TORS.
But while the control of the next
House of Representatives by the DEM
ocratic party is as we'll assured as any
event in the future can be, there is a
good prospect of Democratic supremacy
in the Senate at an early day. There
is strong reason to hope for the elec-
ton of Democratic Legislature in
Illinois; it will be a good while be-
fore Ohio elects another Senator
Rhode Island would elect only Demo-
cratic Senators if there were fair ap-
pOrtionment, and under the liberalized
election laws may do it even under
the present system OF giving the coun-
try districts entire control over the
State. We count on nothing from
Connecticut for several years, for it
will take long time to uproot a per-
nicious apportionment system in that
State, which gives the small farming
towns the power of outvoting the
larger population of the cities. Nor
do we count on anything at present
from Iowa, encouraging as the elec
ton of a Democratic Governor and
the reduction of the Republican ma
jority in the Legislature is to us. But
Delaware will not again make the
blunder of last year. General Harri-
son has made Indiana reliably Demo
cratic for years to come, the fact that
Democrats few weeks ago elected
two-thirds of the members of the
drainage commission, in the Republi
can end of Illinois shows how much
reason there is to look for large gains
in that State where almost the whole
southern portion is strongly Demo
cratic. Iowa will be afraid for long
time to do anything to help Republi-
cans in other States, in fact, next fall
and in 1892 Iowa will be clamoring
for assistance from the National Com
mittee on the ground that she is a
doubtful State. There will be so
many doubtful States presently that
the Republicans will find it impossi-
BILE to concentrate all their means in
New York and Indiana.
"OUR FRIENDS THE ENEMY" HELP US.
The Republican party in all branches
Of the government is now sowing the
seeds of Democratic victories. The
President had little popularity when
inaugurated; he has none now; and
the longer he remains in Office the
more enemies he will have. The next
House of Representatives will inves-
tigate the management Of the Interior
Department, and expose the most dis
creditable record of executive-shall
we only say blundering, at present?
since the days of ID and 16 years ago
when geese hung altitudinum," and
no guilty man was allowed to escape
an acquittal or pardon.
The Fifty-frst Congress is still young
but the Republicans have begun to
show their hand, and we do not be-
lieve the people like the hand. The
refusal of the Republican Senators to
recognize the Republic of Brazil, be-
cause they are afraid it has been illib-
eral to the ex-royal family and un-
friendly to the monarchists, or because
it was not be so we'll assured of perpe-
|tuity as our own Government after
century OF growth, has been observed
in every corner o: the country. All
the impulses of the American people,
all the traditions of the American
government, all the precedents set by
American statesmen, demanded the
prompt recognition of Brazil as re-