Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-01-05
SENATORIAL ELECTIONS.
Struggles OF the Republicans to Retail
Control Of the Senate.

Struggles OF the Republicans to Retain
Control Of the Senate.
The threatened conflict in several
states over the election of United
States senators may be regarded as a
present evil. but there is little doubt
that it will prove an ultimate good.
By fixing the attention of the country
upon the opportunities for corruption
afforded by the present system of
electing senator's, it will force and
hasten the adoption of the amendment
to the federal constitution proposed by
Senator Palmer, of Illinois, making
senators elective by the people of the
states
The adoption Of such an amendment
has been foreseen and regarded as in
evltable for some years past. 1t has
been made inevitable by the election
to the senate, in a number of states. of
millionaires without marked qualifica-
tion or capability, whose election, in
some cases, has been clearly proved to
have been the result of bribery. Pub
lie condemnation of the caucus plan hc s
been growing rapidly of late years. but
the proposed amendment might have
failed of adoption by three-fourths of
the state legislatures FOR some years to
come but for the object lessons now
presented in the northwestern states.
There is no longer room for doubt
that the republican party. still acting
as the agent of the plutocrats who con-
trolled it in the late campaign, is to
make a desperate and determined
struggle in the legislatures of five
states, with a view of retaining con-
troll of the United States senate. The
special interests which are behind the
republicans believe that in retaining
control of that body they will succeed.
after all, in defeating the popular de-
mand for a reform in the fiscal policies
of government
This is one of the boldest and most
audacious schemes to defeat the popu-
lar will the country has ever seen It
is we'll for men of al, parties to be on
guard against such attempts to sub
vert popular government and pervert
il to wrong uses. Doubtless the men
who desire to see senate majority
hostile to the spirit of reform arc not
all in one party. It is part of their
notifies to divide their strength be-
tween both But the fact remains that
it is to the democratic party that the
country looks to maintain the sub
stance as well rs the form of popular
government 1t can be relied upon to
meet the expectations of the people.
Whatever the results in these con-
tests the fact of their existence will
serve to accentuate the demand for the
adoption of the Sixteenth amendment
That il will be adopted, and that soon.
there Is no longer much room to doubt
The people. who have come TO know
and understand and trust themselves.
will NO longer tolerate . system to
which the wisest and best men in the
constitutional convention were OPP
uosed.-St Louis Republic.
1T was the trust stocks that fell
of most by reason Of Mr.. Cleveland's
election, and they are the stocks which
the country can see depressed not only
with equanimity but with certain
feeling that justice Il being done to
men who had no pity. TO those whom
the Mckinley law had made their Viz
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