The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-11-22

The heaviest rovcrScs suffered by Har-
TisOn were in New York, where a. ma io1fty
of 1900 four years ago was transferred
into Il ma iority of 10000 for Cleveland;
in Illinois. where i majority Of 2O,0oO
was swept away and a democratic ma
ioIity Of 10000 substituted; in Wiscon-
sin. where Il u 900 republican majority
collapsed and in it's place appeared 5000
democratic plurality; in Ohio. where 20
600 majority disappeared: III Kansas.
where 10000 majority was reduced to
nothing; in Minnesota, where $4,000 ma
ferity was cut in half; and in Colorado,
where q 1900 majority was reversed.
But it is. in fact one unbrOlien story OF
republican ma joritieS reduced. wiped out
ur reversed from Maine to California,
from the lakes TO the gulf-dcfeat, disas-
ter. roIt everywhere.
iii 1891 Clcvelands popular majority
was G3.O00: four years later, when he was
defeated, it reached 9SO0G. This year It
viii reach $4,000.
On the basis Of 12.5J0.00O votes this
would show Il gain Of million over Cleyc-
l4ud's vntp of four years ago and republic
c.,n gain of half Il million. In other words
Il" democratic vote in four years increased
- per cent. while the republican vote Jagged
back and hardly showed 10 per cent in
crease.
age increase in the total vote of the country
at each presidential election was about 10
per cent.
Great Political T.nnGsIides.
There have only been two other great po-
iiticaI ''landslides' since the foundation of the
government The first was in 1910 when
benjamin Harrison's grandfather was elect
ed by landslide big rs the one that
defeated his grandson last Tuesday, and the
secoud occurred in 49,, twelve years later,
when General Winfield Scott went down
along with the old wing party.
But in 1910, although William Henry
Harrison had 234 electoral votes against
sixty for Van Buren,, his popular majority
was less than one hundred and nifty thou,
sand, and in 1892 when Pierce defeated
Scott with 254 votes i'll the electoral col
lege against forty-tWo for the latter his
popular ma jority was little more than two
hundred thousand. Cleveland's will reach
considerably over half q million.
a.. Capture of the senate.
The capture Of the senate is the brightest
gem III the crown of Tuesday glorious vic
tory, as it at last places the democratic
party in undisputed possession OF every
branch of the government
The present senate stands: Forty-Seven
republicans, thirty-nine democrats, two
Farmers Alliance, Il republican majority
of eight. There are twenty-five senators,
not reelected, whose terms expire March
4th. OF these seventeen come from states
previously contfoileu Dy IcpuIlicaiS-i
island, Washington, North Dakota, Mime
sofa. Massachusetts, California, Maine,
Connecticut. New York, Nebraska, Vermont,
Pennsylvania, Montana. Wisconsin, Neva-
da, Wyoming and Kansas.
The eight democratic senator's Will either
be reelected or have democratic successors.
They come from Tennessee New Jersey.
Missouri, Delaware, Florida. Texas and
Indiana.
Besides these eight the democrats will
gain one each from California, Montana,
New York, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, in
each of which states the republicans have
lost the legislature. This will give the
democrats thirteen of the new senators to
be elected, a gain of FIVE.
The republicans will also lose senators