Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-04-24

| ing man, but is no longer spoken OF rs a
| Populist, being counted as a straight DEM
| ocrat. One of the best speakers in the
| third party is William A. McKeighan OF
| the Fifth Nebraska district, and the long
| est winded is Senator Allen of the same
| state, whose chief title to distinction SO far
| is that he spoke Is hours on the silver cues
ton. Mckeighan is quite an uncertain
| quantity in politics and is jocularly clsssi-
fled by his colleagues as Demo-pop- inde-
pendent-silverite. He prepares his speeches
with great care. and even to one who does
| not accept his conclusions they sound like
really classical productions.
| Senator Roach of North Dakota form. err
ly set down as Populist, is also now count
ed as a Democrat In fact, since the makers
| of almanacs for 1894 first published the par
ty division in the house that division has
changed no less than five times by dea, hs,
designations and changes of class, but the
Democrats and such Populists as act with
them on all economic questions still have Il
certain majority of "a.
Pence and Cooper.
An interesting fact in the makeup of the
house is that one of the most active Pop
ulists and an equally active Democrat We're
wy hoou WIN pthiouSs dlC
still next door neighbors and friends in
Columbus, Ind. One is Late Pence of Co 10
RADIO and the other George William Cooper
Of the Fifth district of Indiana. Mr.. Pence
was a Democrat from way back, but in
1892, in common with most of the Colors do
Democrats, he bolted the platform of the
Chicago convention and went for General
Weaver and silver But, just the same, he
is NnIya tod w I'D
with only occasional outbreaks of Populist
fervor. He is small, quick, vivacious man,
who flies at any subject with intense ear
nestness and shakes hands with an ardent
grip.
Personally NIL thesethngs are of some IN. .
terest, but politically still more, for the cal
culators on 10th sides are already countlne
the districts which the Democrats will lose
next November and for a wonder the losipg
party good naturally admits in advance a
very heavy loss, while the other party ex-
presses no anxiety to capture the house In
fact, it seems to be taken for granted that
the possession of the next house of re,,ra-
sentives will he of no advantage to the part v
which has it. There are 25 districts in which
the Democratic majority in 1899 was less
than 600, and some calculators expect all
~
lose the really debatable districts in the
seven large states where the tariff will be
the great factor.
Fartisan Calculators.
OF course there are many other states in
which the tariff is important, but some of
them are Republican and some Democratic
anyway, whiln in others the districts are
gerrymandere1 so judiciously that it world
take change of 20 per cent or so in Che
votes to make any change in the repressn-
tation. Democratic calculators say, 1--WE
can lose every really debatable district in the
seven tariff states and every other district
where our majority is less than a thousand
and still haven working margin in the next
house" Republican fgurers say, I'VE
shall carry evety district where the majority
against us WIS less than 1,500. all the de-
batable districts in all the tariff states, all
the Populist districts in Kansas and both
Rhode Island districts besides, which gives
US the house by good working majority"
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