Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-10-27
CANDIDATES FOR PROTECTION.
In tho Coming Political Contest Their
Must be NO Uncertainty.

CANDIDATES FOR PROTECTION.
In tho Coming Political Contest There
Must be NO Uncertainty.
All the members of the next con-
gress are to be elected on November 8.
Legislatures are 10 be chosen IN Au-
gust, September and November which
will have the election of thirty-three
United States senators. II either house
becomes republican, further bad leQis-
lation can be blocked. In the event OF
o strong republican verdict. IL is prob.
able that even the present congress
will not succeed in passing anything
very damaging during the short session
that will remain for IL.
There is a feeling that the republi-
cans are going 20 sweep the country
this year, and they will II they try.
But here are a few figures which show
shat Il will not do TO be too confident
There are $50 members IN the present
house OF whom only 12s are republi.
cans 1t will be seen that there is
great deal to overcome The democrats
expect to hold nearly Or quite all Of
their 100 from the south. IL they hold
them all, they will need to get only
80 more from 20 northern states to hold
a majority. The republicans must carry
three to one Of the northern districts
III order to gain control.
But as a large number OF democrats
In the present house received only
small pluralities, and as public opinion
has undergone a revolution IL Is be-
lieyed that every close district will go
republican this year il proper attention
Is given to 1t. A democratic loss
throughout the north proportional to
that sustained in special elections in
New York and Ohio districts this year
to fill vacancies will make the next
house strongly republican. Besides, we
expect some gains in the south.
- The populists, who nave IA members
of tbe present house, expect TO have at
least 40 in the next. This calculation,
however, is all in the air. Populism is
on the wane in the country districts
since the railroad strike, and our adj
vices from Kansas, Nebraska and the
Dakotas are that the republicans are
likely to gain two-thirds of all that the
populists lose. In the large cities, how
ever, the populists o seem likely to
win the striking labor vote from the
democrats. This may be contemplated
with serenity, because the change will
only be TO another alias. 1t is only
when they win votes from the repub-
leans that the country is endangered.
Should they have 40 members, mostly
won from the republicans, they would
have the balance of power in the next
house, and in case the presidential
election should be thrown into the
house, the situation would be at least
disquieting.
Those senators whose terms expire
with the present congress are q fol
lows:
Morgan, Of Alabama, ID.
Berry, of Arkansas, ID.
Wolcott. OF Colorado. r
Higgins, OF Della ware, Il
Walsh, Of Georgia, ID.
Shoup, OF Idaho, r.
Cullom, OF Illinois, r
Gear, OF Iowa, X.
Martin, OF Kansas. ID.
Lindsay, OF Kentucky, u.
Caffrcy, OF Louisiana, ID.
Frye, OF Maine, X.
Hoar, of Massachusetts, r.
Mcmillan, of Michigan, X.
Washburn, OF Minnesota, r
Walthall, OF Mississippi, ID.
Power. Of Montana, II.
Vacancy to be filled.
Henderson, of Nebraska. II.
Chandler. OF New Hampshire. z
MCPHERSON, of New Jersey, d..
Ransom, OF North Carolina, ID.
Dolph, OF Oregon, II.
Dixon, of Rhode Island, r.
Butler, OF South Carolina. ID.
Pettigrew,o OF South Dakota, r
Harris. OF Tennessee, d.
Coke. OF Texas, ID.
Hunton, OF Virginia, d.
Vacancy in Washington.
Camden, OF West Virginia, q.
Carey, of Wyoming, r.
Vacancy to be filed.
Here are IA democrats and 10 epsv
~licans, with three vacancies in states,
now partly represented by republicans.
Thodc Island has already elected a REL
pablican successor to Mr.. Dixon, and
Oregon has chosen a legislature which
will r~e-elect Mr.. Dolph CHANGING over,
the list, not a sea now held by a repub-i
lican looks shaky, and on the contrary
there is reason for believing that all
the vacancies will be nlled by repub-
licans and tina p~rotectionists, If not re-
publicans, are likely to come from Ala
bama, New Jersey and West Virginia,
with the possibility of one from Ten
nessee. But in any event the senate
will be close and the populists now
there will continue to receive attention
far beyond their merits, unless they
improve by experience.
The obvious lesson of the foregoing
facts for republicans to observe is that
we must work to win. 1t is important
to look after all the close districts,
south as well as north. 1t is a mistake
to treat the south, or even our large
cities, as foreigners.