The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-26

JOSEPH G. CANNON.
Conlln1ng ourselves to the house of rep
resentatives, and leaving the changes in
the senate for consideration Mt some fu-
ture time, we find that the casualties have
not been as numerous as they usually are
in these political conflicts. Two years ago
tho storm Of battle fairly DESTROYED the
Republican battalion in the house and
brought to the front Il small army of new
and untried men. This year the mortality
has been phenonenally small, and the
next house will contain Il larger number
of men who have had experience in that
body than ever before. OF course this in
small part is accounted for by the fact
that the membership of the house has been
increased from 1892 to $50 With two dozen
additional members there were more on.
portunitics in some states to win re-elec-
ton, and sitting members have taken adj
vantage thereof in Il number of instances
1t IS somewhat remarkable fact that of
the Lightweight Republicans in the pres
ent house sixty were put up for reelection.
and OF the sixty, still more remarkable, all
but five were returned. Therefore fifty
five OF eighty eight Republicans now in
tho house, or 62ia per cent, have been
chosen their own SUCCESSORS
Tho Democrats were even more fortu-
nate. or 230 Democratic members in the
present house $50 were put up for re-elec
ton, and all but twenty seven of them an
pear to have been successful Thus against
G2X per cent. Of the Republicans returned
the Democrats show n return Of more than
"a per cent
OF the twenty-five former members of
the house who stood for another term
eighteen were Repu blcans and four Dem
ocratS. Ten of the Republicans and two of
the Democrats were successful. Hence W..
are able to make up the following interest
ing table of the new house:
Members present house reelected. IS Isl
FORMER members elected. ............ 10 -
Number experienced members :. G5 l59
Four Alliance members have been re-
elected, and these, added to the Republic
ans and Democrats, give Il grand total of
22S men in the next house who are mem
bers of this house or have served in former
congresses, or nearly two-thirds of the
whole number. This beats all records.
Among the Republicans who have been
reelected are eX-Spcaker Reed, the great
est debater Ill the American congress; his
three able colleagues from Maine, Bou-
telle. Dingley and Millikcn; Powers and
Grout two strong men, from Vermont;
Henry Cabot Lodge, champion of the fed
eral elections bill in the last congress;
Joe Walker, the millionaire leather man,
who made a silver speech on hot day in
his coat sleeves and won fame thereby;
William Cogswoll, President Harrson's
warm friend and chairman of the platform
committee in the Minneapolis convention;
Elijah Morse, the ''stove polish states
man." from Massachusetts,; Jim Belden,
probably the richest man in the house,
from Syracuse; Charley O'Neill, of Phil
adelphia, who first came to congress
thirty years ago, and who divides the
honor of being father Of the house" with
Mr.. Holm an, of Indiana; John DalZell, of
P1ttSburg, who aspires to the seat in the
senate now occupied by Mr.. Quay; Bel
lamy Storer, the rich young man of Gin
cinnati; Henry Johnson, the most rapid
talker in congress, from Indiana; Julius
Caesar Burrows, Of Michigan, the greatest
parliamentarian OH the Republican side:
r. r. Hit, Blaine's friend and the former
diplomatist, from Illinois; "Old Tom
Henderson, from the same state, and elo-
quent young Deliver of Iowa
Some Of the Republicans who reappear
are Joe Cannon, of Illinois, who now has
the satisfaction of beating the same man
who bent him two years ago; Governor
Gear, OF Iowa, who was n member Of the
Mckinley ways and means committee, and
the special champion of free sugar; James
S. Sherman, of New York, fresh faced,
boyish man, who is often mistaken for one
Of the pages on the floor; ex-senator Henry
w. Blair, of New Hampshire, famous the
country over for his long speeches, his pc
culiarities and his advocacy of woman's
suffrage and prohibition; General Gros-
venor of Ohio, who used to be called the
Santa Claus Of the house on account OF his
flowing white beard and rolling eyes, and
w. p. Hepburn, Of Iowa, who was Il prom
inent representative few years ago, and
who has since been solicitor Of the treasury.
The five Republicans now in the house
who were defeated for another term are
James O'Donnell, Of Michigan, n good
printer. editor and representative; Charles
+. Belknap. of the same state, who was n
noted boy soldier and the special champion
of the bill to pension army nurses; John
a. Quackenbush, Of New York; Clarence
D. Clark. of Wyoming, and Cheatham, of
North Carolina, the only negro in the pres
ent congress. The next house will not con-
tain one representative Of the Afro-Ameri-
can race. In number Of districts it hap
pened that two members Of the present
house We're. pitted against each other by