The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1891-05-29
INTERESTING FIGURES.

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figures and deductions. The iIss Is un i.
Official but accurate. OF the $50 members
!, there are s37 democrats. .s7 republicans, and
3 members ot The Farmers Alliance who
viii not 90 Into either party caucus. There
j arc other members IN southern states who
were elected on the Alliance platform, but
on democratic tickets, and they Will vote
on all party questions with the democrats.
Cleaning the list by states II appears
that there are of the A states no less than
! 10 With solid democratic delegations and / !
more where the majority OF the deicga-
tIon 10 democratic. There are 10 states
with solid republican delegations and
With republican najofitIes. OF the re
naming states have Alliance majorI-
tics, while In the remaining state. Min
nesota, there are democrats republican
and Alliance man, 80 that The delegation
on vote Is democratic. Summing up,
the democrats control the vote OF 20 states
the republicans Of 70, the Alliance Of a !;
total ~. There arc, then, 10 solld demo-
cratic delegations and TO republican.
The 10 solid democratic delegations In
elude membership OF Io6; the sciid re-
publican delegation total membership OF
IS. The irightfui disparity lies In the fact
that Of the 10 solid republican delegations
n OF them are mining camps, or rspabli-
can emergency states. Colorado, Idaho,
Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon. Wash
ington and Wyoming have member each
who Is solid republican. by these states
the republicans control the senate. There
remain ; solid states. OF which ,. South
Dakota and Vermont, have members
each, and the state OF Maine. with Messrs.
Reed, Bcuteiie, Dingiey and MillIken,has
solid delegation OF 4. These latter were
elected. Il will be remembered. few
months before the popular uprising. The
solid democratic states are big and sub-
ssantisl. Missouri alone has u, almost as
many ~ the entire force of the solid re-
publican eommohweaiihs. The others are
Alabama, 81 Arkansas, S; Georgia, 10;
louisiana. 6; Maryland. 81 Mississippi, 7;
South Carolina. y; Texas. II: Virginia, 10;
Weatl Virginia, 4. besides such piekings
ss Florida, New Hampshire and Rhode
Island. with each. and each from Del
aware and Montana, where the republican
spirit was wiling. bu, the flesh was evil
IDENTIFY weak.
/ In the - states where the democrats
have maiori,ies In the delegations there
are In all ms democrat. and ~ republicans.
net democratic majority OF 6s. In the ,
republican states there arc n republicans
and II democrats. a net majority OF TO-
Here again the democrats controls, with
the exception Of Pennsylvania, all OF the
large delegations. The states stand; fiii-
nols. - 10 9; Indiana, ~ TO q; Kentucky,
10 10 =; Massachusetts,. 7 10 s; Michigan,
sto 3; New York, a to II; North Caro-
lima. 7 10 4; Ohio i4 to y; Tennessee, to
.; Wisconsin. s TO Z; Connecticut, 3 10 4;
Iowa, 6 to s. New jersey. 3toa. The re-
publican delegations are Pennsylvania. IS
to 10. and California, to ,. OF the re-
naming states there arc in Kansas S AiH-
snee men TO republicans, and In Ne
bfaska Alliance men to democrat.
Giving the Alliance these Estates. while in
Minnesota. - already stated. there being
democrats, republican and Alliance
man, the control of the delegation Is with
the democrats.
ThIs d ihe'way the house will stand:
Dsmocfa,s-Solid delegations, 10; ma
iority delegations, "a; total, %.
Republican Solid delegations. 10; ma
jorlty delegations, >; total, ~.
Ailianee-Solid delegations. o: tnaiod-
jy delegations, >; total, >.
On division by states on any question,
therefore, the democrats would carry the
vote by 90 to u. or a majority of IS.
II Is not cut OF the range OF the possible
that such question may arise In the next
house. That question would be the most
important In the history of this country.
Il would be the question Of the next psesi-
dent OF the United States II seems all
most certain that the Farmers Alliance,
or seetIon Of that organization. will place
. candidate for the presidency In the field. !.
Who tha. may be no one can guess. II
certainly can be Senator Stanford OF
California II he wants II. With the presen.
strength of the Alliance and Senator
Stanfords enormous attributes for an en-
ergetic campaign, I. Is not impossible that
the Alliance may win electoral votes
enough-noi to elect Senator Stanford, but
to prevent either the democratic or the re.
publican candidate from obtaining ma
jorlty of the Electoral College. In that
case the eonstitution, by article II, pro-
vides that the election shall be thrown In
10 the houss OF representatives. That
would mean the ftty.second congress-, and
the full importance Of the fact that demo-
Gratis control thirty delegations Gut Of The
forty-dour, Is seen when Il IL remembered
that the constitution provides that the vote
shali be taken by states, and each state,
no matter how small Its delegation, shall
have one vote. 10 that III the Alliance
houid elect so many electors that neither
the republicans nor the democrats could
cast majority vote of the entire college,
the next president would be democrat.
i On this vote allsh States would meet on q
common level, and the 10000 whites. blacks
hslf-hreeds. mcngrels. Chinese and Indians
Of the Nevada mining camps would be as
powerful in eiecting president As The mill
ions OF intelligent residents Of the states o
New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Illinois
Ohio and Texas Mr.. Dartine OF Nevads
would be as big man as Roswell Flower
and his thirty three colleagues.
So big is the democratic majority. even OF
he unit vote by states, that they could cleo
the president. even il not single republican
was present. The constitution provides lha
there shalt be present quorum consisting o
member or members from two thirds ofths
states. 50 that with them Thirty states the dem
ocrats could legitimateIy elsct she president
without the attendance Of single ,epubcaa
4 The deep interest which both the democratic
and the republican party take in the allisncs
entrance into the field Of national politics car
therefore be very easily understood.
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