Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-17
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
Forecast as TO How the Next Senate and
House VIII Stand

Forecast to How the Next Senate and
House VIII Stand
/ WASHINGTON, Nov. 1I-An analysis
of the congressional election returns
shows that with returns missing from
twenty districts, in which the result is
either unknown entirely or is very
close. the democrats have elected to
seats IN the house Of representatives for
the t1fty-third congress lightweight
more representatives than the repu bic
ans This majority does not include
| nine members-elect who are classified
as either fusionists or third party
men, nearly every one OF whom will
act with the democrats in any pro-
posed reduction of tariff taxes. Their
support, with the additional strength
| the democrats are certain to derive
from securing some of the twenty dis
tricts put in the unknown column.
make it conservative to estimate that
the democrats will have ma jority of
100 members or more on the most i'm
| portant question likely to come before
| the next house OF representatives, viz:
q revision of the Mckinley tariff law.
A number of the fusionists are also
| thoroughly in accord with the demo-
cratic policy as far as it goes on all
| other questions
| For instance, McLaurlin, OF South
| Carolina, and Pence and Bell, of Color
| ado. who are classified with the third
! party men, are in general accord with
I the democratic platform, save that on
[ the currency question the first has
/ alliance ideas and the two last named
are radical free coinage men. Three
| out of four of the fusionists elected in
; Kansas are simply democrats, of what
| may be called the radical wing of the
| party.
(; districts, the next house will consist of
207 democrats, 100 republicans and
| fusionists or third party men.
An analysis by sections of the vote
: cast Tuesday Tor congressman shows
| that the southern states, Maryland,
Missouri and Kentucky being included
in this category, will send III demo-
Gratis, only four republicans and one
! alliance democrat, McLaurlin, of
South Carolina, to the next house, with
| four districts, two in West Virginia, one
each in Kentucky and Missouri in
] doubt Of the four republican congress
! men returned, two come from Tennessee,
one each from Kentucky and Missouri
The only apparent result of the fight
| made against democracy in the south
! was to strengthen its hold on public
| affairs In North Carolina, Cheatham,
| the colored republicans defeated after
surviving the landslide two years ago,
and in Alabama a solid democratic del
/ egation is returned. notwithstanding
the efforts of Mr.. Magee and others to
split it
OF New England's twenty-seven votes
IN the next house, the republicans get
Il
| coming from Massachusetts, and three
| from Connecticut The Second New
| Hampshire district is placed in the
doubtful column. The four middle
states, New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Delaware, have seventy
three votes in the house, of which num-
Der the republicans viii cast thirty
nire and the democrats thirty-four.
Fifty-six congressman will be re-
| turned from the middle western states
| of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois Accord
ing to the returns, democrats Will rep
resent thirty-two of the districts, re-
publicans twenty-three, and one, the
| Sixteenth Ohio, at present represented
| by Pearson, democrat, is said to be eX-
ceedingly close. Although this is the
only doubtful district named in press
dispatches from these states, experience
| warrants the belief that other districts
| will be found to be doubt as the Off
cial count progresses, several districts
| being always nip and tuck between the
| two parties
| The states of the northwest and agri-
cultural west beyond the Mississippi
river viii send Twenty-Five republicans,
| fourteen democrats and fusionists to rep
resent it In the next house, with two
districts in Nebraska in doubt, and the
entire seven from Minnesota placed in
| the same column for lack of informa-
ton as to the successful candidate
! The silver states of Idaho. Montana,
| Wyoming, Nevada and Colorado split
even on the congressional election,
three republicans coming from the three
states first named and three fusionists
from the latter states Newlands, of
Nevada, however, is inclined toward re-
publicanism-
The Pacific coast is entitled to eleven
congressman, Washington and Oregon
each Will send two republicans and
California will send four democrats and
perhaps more, three districts being close
| between the two old parties
| The returns of members of various
state legislatures which will elect
United States senators at present indi-
cate that the democrats will control the
senate, the estimate standing forty
three democrats, forty republicans and
five peoples party. The democrats will
gain senators from New York, Wiscon-
| sin and Wyoming and possibly Califor-
MIA, giving them forty-three- Nevada will
return Senator Stewart, who has separ-
! ated from the republican party and
| who viii represent first of all free coin
age OF silver. North Dakota will prob
ably send Farmers Alliance senator
and the managers of the party also
claim senators from Nebraska and Kan
sas. The balance of power seems to be
| firmly held in the grasp OF the third
! party
| Russell Reelected.
| Boston, Nov. IA careful revision
| of the press returns of the vote for gov
ernor in Massachusetts, was made to-
! day The result shows that Russell has
plurality of 1887
| Thrown From Wagon
DUBUQUE, Ia, Nov. 11--Joseph
Scherbering, of Petersburg, Delaware