Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-14
The Next House.

AN INTERESTING ANALYSIS OF ITS P0LITI
CAL COMPOsITIoN-CHANCE OF TIL
ELECTION OF PRESIDENT BEING THROW,
INTO THE HoUsE-PART WHICH TIL
FARMERS ALLIANCE WILL PLAY.
The printed list Of the members-eiec
of the next House furnishes some interest
ing figures and deductions says Loni'
Garthe in the Baltimore american. Th'
| list is unofficial, but it is accurate. o
' the 332 members there are 237 Democrats,
tS7 Republicans and members of The
| Farmers Alliance who will not 90 into
either party caucus. There are Other
members in Southern States who were
elected on the Alliance platform, but they
will vote on party questions with the
Democrats.
CHANGING over the list by States it ap-
pears that there are of the A States no
less than 16 with solid Democratic dele
cations, and Is more where the majority
of the delegation is Democratic. There
are 10 States with solid Republican dele
gatious, and 2 with Republican MAORI
ties, OF the remaining 3 States, 2 have AL
lance naiorities. while in the one remain
ing State, Minnesota, there are 3 Demo-
Gratis, Republican and Alliance man,
30 that the delegation on vote is Demo-
cratic. Summing up, the Democrats con-
troll the vote of 80 States, the Republi-
cans II, the Alliance 2-tOtal "a.
There are then 16 solid Democratic dele
cations and 10 Republican. The l6 solid
Democratic delegations include a men,
bership of l06; the 10 solid Republican
delegations a total membership of 10.
The frightful disparity lies in the fact
that of the 10 solid Republican delega-
tions, 7 of them-COlorado, Idaho, Ne
yada, North Dakota, Oregon, Washing
ton and Wyoming-conslst of member,
who is a solid Republican. There remains
3 solid States, of which 2, South Dakota
and Vermont, have 2 members each, and
the State of Maine, with Messrs. Reed,
Boutelle, Dingley and Miliken, form a
very solid delegation of 4.
The solid Democratic StateS are appall-
ing. Missouri alone has IA; almost as
many as the entire force of the solid Re-
publicans. The others are Alabama .,
Arkansas 5, Georgia 10. Louisiana 6, Mary
land 6, Mississippi Z, South Carolina 7,
Texas IL, Virginia 10, West Virginia a,
besides such odds and ends of scraps as
each from Florida, New Hampshire and
Rhode Island, with | each from Delaware
aad Montana, where the spirit is willing,
bat the flesh is evidently weak.
In the thirteen States where The Demo
Gratis have ma erisies jD the delegations,
there are in all lis Democrats aud II Re-
publicans, a net majority of 6S. In the
two Republican States there are % Re-
publicans aud II Democrats, a net majori-
tY of 10. Here, again, the Democrats
control, with the exception of Pennsyl-
vanla, all of the large delegations, the
States standing; Illinois, IA to 6; Indiana,
IL to 2; Kentucky, 10 to l Massachusetts,
7 to 5: Michigan. TO 3 New York % to
II North Carolina, 5 to l Ohio, II to I;
Tennessee, 8 to .; Wisconsin, s to l; Con-
necticut. to | Iowa, 6 to 5 New Jersey,
3 to 3. The Republican delegations are
Pennsylvania, Is to 10; California, to 2
Of the remaining States there are in Kan
sas ) Alliance men and , Republicans,
and IN Nebraska Alliance men and l
Democrat, giving the Alliance these two
States while in Minnesota, as already
stated-there being 3 Democrats, Re-
publican and Alliance mantle control
of the delegation is with the Democrats.