Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-17
Pocket-State Senators.

North Dakota, South Dakota. Wash
ington and Montana have been admit
ted into the Union as States, and Idaho
and Wyoming will be admitted by the
present Congress. These six States
will add II Senators to the party of
power. Moatsna chose a Democrats
Legislature and Democratic Senators,
but they are refused admission and the
claimants who promise obedience to
the dominant party will be admitted
in few days. These SIX new States
cast the following aggregate vote at
their last elections, when their largest
vote was polled:
North Dakota. 3s,o98 Idaho .....".....I6,oIs
South Dakota. 1854 Wyoming. ..., IS, ,olo
Washington. .5S,44S -
Montana. ......... 3s,s55 Total. .........a46,ozs
We have single Congressional dis
trlcts in Pennsylvania which have as
many voters as any of the before nam
ed new States, excepting only South
Dakota, and we have districts where
the defeated candidates for Congress
pOlled more votes than can be polled
in either Wyoming or Idaho; but each
of these pocket-States will have two
Senators and one Congressman, except
ing South Dakota that has two Con-
gressmen, and the six States, with an
aggregate vote of rot quite 250, 900, will
have l9 votes in the next Electoral
College, or two-thirds the Electoral
vote of Pennsylvania with her full
/ 900 900 of voters.
Take the six leading States in the
Union, whose representation in the
Senate is equaled by the six new pock-
et-States, and the comparison of voting
population is as follows:
New York I,32o1o9 Indiana. ....... 536,949
illinois 74768 1885 Total .4o67,451
Thus 100000 voters i'm the great
States in direct line from New York
and Pennsylvania to Missouri or about
$4,000, 900 population, have just the
same representation given to $50 900
new pocket-States, whose entire popu-
lation does not aggregate / 900, 900
people. Another noteworthy fact in
this swift creation of pocket-Sfates is
that New Mexico, with 3O,612 votes
cast at the last election, is refused ad-
mission as a State. while Idaho, with
16,O13 votes, and Wyoming with IS, ,OlO
vOtes,a to be clothed with Statehood.
The reason is obvious ia the $50 Dem
ocratic majority given in New Mexico
at the last election.
No one doubts that this rapid in
crease of pocket States is dictated sole
ly by what is accepted as suprem pol
itical necessity. The party that elect
ed Harrison in 1888 accepts the fact
that the States which gave him his
electoral majority in defiance of an ad-
verse popular majority of nearly 10000
would not elect a Republican President
in 1892; and, being unable to trust the
cOnsiderate judgment of the people tho
Electoral College must be packed by
pock States to save a distrusted party,
and the Senate of the United States
must be packed by pocket-State Sena-
tors to check the people when they
elect hostile House of Representa-
tives.
This same policy of creating States
was once tried by the Democrats.
Tney created new States i'm the West
only to see them swept into the Re-
publican line few years later, and
they forced the Mexican war to gain
slave Sta tes only to see California and
Nevada come in as free States, and the
same lesson is likely to be taught the
by the pocket States of to-
day. They are now obedieut to party
orders; but their people are among the
most likely to break against the pres
ent tax policy of the party as soon as
their people get fairly in command of
biIcli oW III lHttIeslS HELL tu6 pTeCt-
dent is one that tho near future may
sea repeated in the division of Texas
into four states, with eight Senators
and more electoral votes than New
York, and in all the outlying territor-
les brought in under Democratic aus
pices to make Democratic states.
''Buu the Senate is safe, "respond the
party leaders and organs. The Senate
never stands up against a great nation
al revolution such as is now probable
on the industrial and monopoly issues
which convulse the land. When tie
people take departure the Senate de-
parts with them, and if the people shall
defeat the Republicans in 1892. as DOW
seems highly probable regardless of
multiplied pocket States, the Senate
will speedily drift into accord with the
revolution. - Phitade tphia