Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-12
YHE NEXT HOUSE.
Interesting Analysis Of Its PO
litical Complexion.
Overwhelming Majority of the
Democratic Party.

How, Under Certain Contingencies ths
Democrats May Elect a President, and
/ the Republicans II Vice President-Tht
Farmers Alliance No Longer an In.
! significant Factor.
WAsHNGToN, May 12.-Some inter.
csting figures and deductions are fur.
nished by the printed lists Of members.
elect Of the next house of representa-
| tiyes. The list is unofficial but il is
I accurate. OF the 332 members there are
| 231 Democrats, II Republicans ana S
members of the Farmers Alliance, who
will not go 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
Glancing over the list by states, it ap-
| pears that there are, of fourty-four
states, no less than sixteen with solid
Democratic delegations, and thirteen
more where the majority of the delega-
tion is Democratic There are ten states
with solid Republican delegations. OF
the remaining three states two have Al
naming state, Minnesota, there are
three Democrats, one Republican and one
Alliance man. so that the delegation on a
vote is Democratic. Summing up. g
Democrats control the vote of thir V
states, the Republicans twelve, the Ali
anCe two, q total of fOrty-four.
There are, then, sixteen solid Demo-
cratic delegations and ten Republican.
The sixteen solid Democratic delegations
include membership of 1906. while the
ten solid Republican delegations num-
Der total membership of fifteen.
The Solid states.
The disparity lies in the fact that of the
ten solid Republican delegations seven
Of thom-Colorado, Idaho, Nevada,
North Dakota, Oregon, Washington
and Wyoming of one member
each, who is a solid Republican. There
remain three solid states, of which two,
South Dakota and Vermont, have two
members each, and the state of Maine,
with Messls. Reed, Boutelle, Dingley
and Milliken, form a very solid delega-
tion of four.
The solid Democratic states are in the
majority Missouri alone has IA. nearly
AZ many as the entire force Of the solid
Republicans. The Others are Alabama,
8: Georgia, 10; Louisiana, 6: Maryland,
8; Mississippi, 7, South Carolina, Z;
Texas, II; Virginia 10; West Virginia,
4, besides such odds and ends as two
each from Florida, New Hampshire and
Rhode Island, and one each from Della
ware and Montana, where the spirit is.
willing but the flesh is evidently weak
The Delegations.
In the thirteen states where the Dem
Ocrats have majOrities in the delegations
there are are i'll all 1l5 Democrats and
A Republicans, a net majority of 6S in
the two Republican states there are %
Republicans, and l9 Democrats, net
majority of 10. Here again the Demo
Gratis control, with the exception OF
Pennsylvania, all of the large delega-
tions, the states standing: Illinois, II to
6; Indiana II to ?; Kentucky, 10 to /
Massachusetts, I to 5; Michigan 8 to 3.
New York, % to IL; North Carolina, 8
to /; Ohio, II to 7; Tennessee, s to ;;
Wisconsin. 8 to 1; Connecticut, 3 to /
Iowa, to :: New Jersey, 3 to2.
The Republican delegations are Penn
sylvania, Is to 10; California, to2. OF
the remaining states there are in Kansas
) Alliance men TO 9 Republicans, and in
Nebraska Alliance men to | Democrat,
giving the Alliance these two statcs
while in Minnesota, as already stated,
there being 3 Democrats, | Republican
and | Alliance man. the control of the
delegation is with the Democrats. This,
then is the summary: