The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-12-24
MoRGANTowN, VIRGINIA. SATURDAY "a 1892
Trying 10 steal the senate.

Trying TO steal the Senate.
The desperate efforts of Ton Car
ter, James $. Clarkson and other
discredited Republican managers to
reverse the elections for members of
the Legislature in four or five North
western Safes are guided more by
mistaken zeal than by sound politi-
cal wisdom. The attempt is bad
politics because the chances of sue
cess are not great enough to compsn-
safe for the increased odiun which
it brings upon the historic party of
usurpation and Of force and fraud
in elections.
In the Senate there are now 80
Democrats 2 Farmers Alliance mem
bers and AZ Republicans. In order
to tie the Republicans in the Senate
the Democrats must take four Sena.
tors from them, which would give
each of the two old parties 43 Sen
ators with the two Farmers ALI
ance members holeiag the balance
of power. The Alliance men may be
expected to vote with the Democrats
on most Of the questions that were
at issue in the recent canvass, but
a situation in which neither of the
two great parties could be held re-
sponsible for legislation would be
unfortunate.
In order to have just half the
members of the Senate the Demo
Gratis must gain five Senators in the
Fifty.third Congress, and these,
with Vice President Stevenson's
casting vote, would give them con-
troll Of the Senate with no member
absent or impaired.
To control the Senate by clear
majority of two, the Democrats must
gain six members, and this is what
Mr.. Clarkson and his talented coad-
TUTORS are said to be bent on prevent
ing if money can do it. The cyni-
cally reckless and disgraceful meth
DDS with which the country was
made familiar in the working of
Southern returning boards 16 years
ago have been introduced into the
Far Northwest In Wyoming the
conspirators are trying to control
the Legislature on the theory that
one is majority of three, two Dem
ocratic members elect being, for the
present shut out of the Legislature
though their election was certified by
two out of the three officials consti
tuting the Canvassing Board of Cor
bon county. The State Canvassing
Board holds that the two Republi-
can candidates for the Legislature
from Carbon County are to be ad-
mitted, though certified by only one
member of the County Board. When
the election of a United States Sena-
tor and the control of the Federal
Government turn upon the result, it
isn't at all probable that shallow
knavery like this will be allowed to
win. The people are not in the hu-
NOR to put up with it. In Montana
Tom Carter is trying to get parti-
san Judge to legalize still more
fragrant fraud, and in Kansas aud
Nebraska equally dishonest tricks
are on the board.
But this is not the Democratic
party's year to be robbed of any
thing that it has fairly won. 1t has
certain gain of Senator in n York
and OF another in Wisconsin. The
news is that Democrats are sure to
gain Senator in California by the
aid of Populist votes, and that they
have a clear majority in the Montana
Legislature. This is enough to
make a tie between the Democrats
and Republicans in the Senate with
the two Alliance men holding the
balance of power.
But the Republican scheme to
steal the Legislature Of Wyoming
is too VIGOROUSLY fraudulent to sue
coed. The Democrats may count
with confidence upon winning an
other Senator from the Republicans
there, thus making a Democratic
membership OF exactly half the Sen
ate. with Mr.. Stcvenson's casting
vote to control in case of tie But
on nearly all vital questions the two
Alliance men will vote with the
Democrts, so that anti Republican
control of the Senate seems well as
sured. 1t will be still better assur-
ed if the Democrats and Pcpulists
stand firmly on their rights in Kan
sas and Nebraska.-Repu6iic
To-Day
Hoods Sarsaparilla stands at the