Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16
PROSPECTS FOB THE YEAR.

PROSPECTS FOB THE YEAR.
They are all That the Democratic Party
Can Desire.
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 posses
sion of the popular branch of congress
and of strengthening itself in the un-
popular branch, as Speaker Reed once
facetiously styled the senate.
AS ex-President Cleveland said
happily, I'VE are the party of the peo-
pie; they cannot take that from u.s."
and as the house of representatives
comes nearer to representing the senti-
ments of the people than any other
branch of the government does or can,
the democratic chances in the house
are better than they are any where else.
Besides this, the political cycle con-
tains promise Of democratic victory
by large majority. The political orbit
of the house appears to be eight years
of which six are the fat democratic
years and two are the lean republican
years thrown in apparently for no other
purpose than to let the country see how
much better off it is under the party of
the masses than under the party of the
classes. The democratic party elected
II iSrge majority of the members OF the
house in 1874, and ratained the control
of the house in 1875 and 1873: The re-
publicans got possession in 1850, but it
was evidently by inadvertence On the
pars of the people, for at the very first
election thereafter the people elected a
large democratic aaa1 1ority and the demo-
Gratis retained the control Of the house
in 1884 and 1885. Again the eight-yeaf
period was completed by the election of
a republican majority. This viii serve
q useful purpose; it will show the people
how absurd it WAS not to elect demo-
cratic majority and next November they
will repeat 1874 and 1882 and elect a
house with a democratic majority of
20 or so.
WE ARE REACHING OUT AFTER sENA-
TORS.
13ut wtliie ths esntfpl OF the next
House of representatives by the ae!tsHaa.
cratic party is as we'll assured as any
event in the future can be, there is q
good prospect of democratic supremacy
in the senate at all early day. There
is strong reason to hope for the election
Of democratic legislature in Illinois;
it viii be p good while before Ohio
elects another Kepaabllllfean senator;
Rhode Island would elect onay aeMQT ENG
cratic senators if there were a fair
apportionment, and under the liberal
lied election laws may do it even under
the present system of giving the country
districts entire control over the state.
W. eaneoppt on nothing from Conneti-
cat fox seoeTai years. for it will take
long time to uproot Petpp!tsc!t.e!ns etp!s! !.!s apper-
tionment system in that state, which
gives the small farming towns the pow
er of outvoting the larger population Of
tbe cities Nor do we count OH anything
~ pyeSept frCm Iowa, encouraging as
the election sf q aemocratic governor
and the reduction of the republican
majority in the legislature is to us. But
Delaware will not again make the
blunder of last year. General Harrison
has made Indiana reliably democratic
feT years 10 come, the fact that the
democrats few weeks ago elected two
thirds of the members 9f ths aFaiipage
commissioB IN the republican end Of
Illinois shows hoW much reason there
is to look for iafgs gains in that state
where almost the whole ssutheFn pOF,
tion is strongly democratic. Iowa will
be afraid for ii long time to do anything
to help republicans in other states, in
fact next fall and in 1892 Iowa will be
clamoring for assistance from the
p.ttsnai committee on the ground tEat
che is doubtful statp, There will be
SO mapy doubtful states pfeseptis thRt
tile republicans will find it Impossible
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 he
was inaugurated; he has none now;
and the longer he remains in Office the
MORE enemies he will have. The next
honse OF representatives, will investi-
gate the management of the inter-
ior department. and expose the
most discreditabie record of ex-
ecutive shall we only say laundering,
at present?-since the days of Is and
l6 years ago when geese hung 'altitudi-
num- and no guilty man was allowed
to escape an acquittal or pardon.
The fifty-frst congress is still young,
bHt the republicans have begun to show
pheir h&pd, and Ye DO not believe the
peeP4e Ike the hand. ahe refusal of