Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-04

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JOSEPH G. CANNON.
Confining ourselves to the house Of rep
resentatives and leaving the changes in
the senate for consideration at 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
the storm cf battle fairly destroyed the
Republican battalion in the house and
brought to the front q small army of new
and untried men. This year the mortality
has been phenomenally small, and the
next house will contain larger number
of men who have had experience in that
body than ever before. OF course this in
a small part is accounted for by the fact
that the mem bership Of the house has been
increased from 332 to $50 With two dozen
additional members there were more op-
portunities in some states to win re-elec-
tion, and sitting members have taken ad-
vantage thereof in 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 mere remarkable, ali
but five were returned. Therefore fifty.
five of eighty-eight Republicans now in
the house, or 6215 per cent, have been
chosen their own successors.
The Democrats We're even more fortu
nate OF 236 Democratic members in the
present houae 160 were put up for reelec
tion, and all but twcnty-sevcn of them ap
pear to have been successful Thus against
6211S per cent CT the Republicans returned
the Democrats show return of more than
G4 per cent.
OF the twenty-five former members of
eighteen We're Republicans and four Dem.
ocrats. Ten Of the Republicans and two of
the Democrats We're successful. Hence we
are able tc make up the following interest
ing table of the new house:
Members present house re-elccted.. s. l57
Former members elected. d............. 10 z
Number experienced members. 65 15e
Four Alliance members have been re-
elected, and these, addeG to the Republic
ans and Democrats give q grand total of
22S men in the next house who are men,
oers of this house or have served in former
congresses, or nearly two-thirGs of the
whole number. This beats all records.
Among the Republicans who have beer
reelected are ex-Speaker Reed the great
est debater in the American coIsgress; his
three able colleagues from Maine, Bou
telle, Dingley and A[illii,en; 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 Il silver speech on hot day in
his coat sleeves and Won fame thereby;
William Cogswell, President Harrison's
warm friend and chairman of the platform
committee in the Minneapolis conventions:
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 IF the house" with
Mr.. Holm an, Of Indiana; john Dalzell, Of
Pittsburg, who aspir3s 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
Cesar Burrows, of Michigan, the greatest
parliamentarian On the Republican side:
r. r. Hit, Blaine's friend and the former
diplomatst, from Illinois; "Old Tom"
Henderson, from the same state, and elo-
quent young Dolliver, of Iowa.
Some OF the Republicans who reappsar
are Joe Cannon, of Illinois, who now has
the satisfaction Of beating the same man
dTho beat Kim two years ago: Governor
Gear, of Iowa, who was member OF the
Mckinley ways and means committee, and
the special champion of free sugar; James
S. Sherman, of New York, fresh faced,
icl, ic nft n p-lC
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 prom
inent reprl ssGE3;t.2tiIe s3;. 9 few ygars 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, good
printer, editor and representative; Charles
e. Belknap, Of the same state, who was
noted boy soldier and the special champion
of the bill to pension army nurses; John
A. Quackenbush, of New York; Clarence
u. ClafK, OF wyoming, ana Cneatnan, 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 were pitted against each other By
The changes Of boundary lines made neces
sary by the reapportionment under the
new census. One case of this sort arose in
Michigan, where Mr.. O'Donnell Rep) and
Mr.. German (Dem.) became the rival can
didates-the latter winning. Another case
was in Ohio, where Irvine DUNCAN Dem.
and General Enoohs (Rep.), both in the
present congress, fought it out in a new
district General Enochs was the winner.
Nearly all Of the strong Democrats now