Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-07-05
LANCASTER, PA. July 5, 1890.
The New states.

The country has another state, we hear.
satisfy the object of its creation, which
seems simply to have been an increase
In the number of Republican United
States senators. Some half dozen states,
more or less, have lately been manufac-
tured for this purpose, and yet Senator
Edmunds Is reported to have alluded
the other day in the Senate Ito our
diminishing numbers" when speaking
Of the Republican band. This plan of
making Republican senators is 50 very
easily accomplished when the Legislature
and president are Republicans, that 1t
has been quite too much Of a temptation
for the Republican leaders to with
stand. In fact they never feel
the least disposition to resist it. 1t never
occurs to them to hesitate when party
advantage is to be gained. Utah would
DO state If Utah was reliably Republic
can. It has an older and larger COM
munity than. the fiedgelings that have
Just been admitted to statehood without
any population to speak Of, and so poor
., to be urable to pay the expenses of
their new dignity.
They would not, in truth, want to be
elected into states but for the advertise
ment 1t is to them and the clation of
feeling that they are as big in the Senate
~ New York; and not even with such in
ducement would they rush into state
hood II 1t was not for the fellows who
want to be senators and officebolders
and who hurry the thing along.
It is a great inducement TO aspiring
youth to seek the territories that they
offer such glittering political prizes.
When q population less than that of
Lancaster county, spread over barren
waste thinner than ever molasses was
spread upon the bread of the motherless
child, Is assigned pair of United States
senators and o representative, beside q
full complement of state officers, it i,
easy to see the temptation offered to i'm
migration; and especially when certifi
Gates of character are not required from
the incomer. There is United State.
Senator Sanders, of Montana, who fled
to Montana from an Ohio sheriff's war.
rant for forgery, and reached his present
\ bigh estate without murmur of objec
ton. To be sure he got it by cheating
the Democrats, but that is not to hiI
discredit among his present associates In
the leadership of the Republican party
II there were many more territorie,
remhfHing TO be transformed into Re
publican states there might be Senat,
exceeding the>Housc In members, seeing
that two senators and but one reprcsen
tative is the allotment of these bab,
states. Fortunately for the senatoria
dignity, there are but one or two terri
{ tories left. The present Congress pro
poses to clean up all the available Re
publican territorial material. Utah
New Mexico and Arizona are too i'm
moral and Democratic to be worthy O
stateship in the Federal Union.
But he who laughs last laughs best
and II is matter for serious reflection
for our hasty Republican legisla
ture whether these great territorie.
that they are erecting into states with
sparse populations may not speedil,
grow into Democratic states. That i
the present outlook and the undertak
ing to fill up the United States Senat,
with Republican stuff from newl,
made states promises to flzzle out will
Z the first installment of senators leav
Ing that aged and acrid Republican, Sen
tor Edmunds, with yearly cause t.
mourn the diminishing number of Re
publican senators, until they withe
away to thinness that may rival thai
of Senator Evarts' political fame ant
physical corporation.
The silver bill seems TO sound q Re
publican knell in the new states with
which the tariff bill chimes. There /.
not Republican idea that has goot
flavor in Rocky mountain state, ant
when the immigrant becomes acclimatet
to the mountain political atmosphere h
will have cold hand for Republican
politics. While the politicians of tha
party are 80 busy scheming to maintain
I its supremacy with stolen anchors, i
behooves them to pay more heed to tht
anchorage ground
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