The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-11-09
How it AppearS,

AID ne people TOOK no chances on the
|seeext Congress. They wanted no more
q, tncertainty regarding the Democratic
kXrrif tinkering, and they sent Repub-
cans not only from every Republican
M,trict but from many districts that
'one not given Republican majorities
10 : many years. From the latest re-
xitArns and the most conservative esti-
Yuohates the Republicans will have nearly,
IF not quite, wothirds of the members
lslof the Fifty-Fourth Congress, and
|Tp}Dfality over the Democrats larger
IAN the entire Democratic vote. The
Ifclaims of the chairman of the Repub-
4 lican Congressional committee last night
footed up $50 members of the next
: House, against "a for the Democrats
and number of Populists.
This is a victory more sweeping than
that which gave the Republicans the
Fifty-First Congress, made famous by
Speaker Reed and the enactment of the
Mckinley law. In that Congress the
Republicans had 176 members, the Dem.
ocrats 155, and the "Wheelers"l. This
\ gave the Republicans majority of 20
ever all.
The election of 1890 after the passage
of the Mckinley law, reversed the ma
jorities, giving the Democrats 227 mem
bers, against 81 Republicans, and 3
Farmers Alliance members. The Fifty
\ Third or present Congress, which went
in with the Democratic landslide of
1892, has 2l9 Democrats, 1877 Republic
ans, and 8 Populsts. The election of
X Tuesday more than reverses the land
slide of 1892, giving the Republicans
more than 100 plurality in the House.
The significance of this victory of
Tuesday is that it is general, not Sec
tional. The nine Eastern States, in
Guiding New York and Pennsylvania
have elected eighty-four Republican
Congressman, against sixty-six in the
Fifty-F First Congress, forty-two in the
Fifty-Second Congress, and fifty-five in
the Fifty-Third or present Congress.
The Middle States, or those in the
Mississippi Valley, including Ohio, Ind
lana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, the two
Dakotas, Kansas and Missouri, have
elected 107 Republicans to the Fifty
Fourth Congress, against eighty in the
Fifty-First Congress, thirty one in the
Fifty-Second Congress and fifty-eight
in the Fifty-Third Congress- This is the
greatest increase made by any section
of the country.
The farther West, taking in Colorado,
Wyoming, Montana, Oregon, Washing
ton, California, Idaho, and Nevada,
have elected seventeen Republicans to
the Fifty-Fourth Congress, against ten
in the Fifty-First and Fifty-Second
Congresses and nine in the Fifty Third
Congress.
The South has made important gains
to show that the people of that section
are beginning to discuss the tariff
rather than the negro question Con-
servative claims give the Republicans
twenty members in the Fifty Fourth
Congress from the Southern states,
which is the same number they had
in the Fifty First, or last Republican
Congress. In the Fifty-Second Con
gress the Republican representation
from the Southern states fell from
twenty to four, and in the Fifty-Third
Congress it was only five. Against this
the Republicans will have not less than
sixteen, and possibly rs many as
twenty-five in the Fifty Fourth Con-
gress from the solid South
These figures show that the increased
Republican representation in the next
Congress will represent no section or
class of voters, but all-the manufac-
turers and factory workers in the East,
and the farmers and miners of the
West and South all have become
convinced that protection does pro-
tect, and that free trade brings ruin
to every department of labor and enter
prise.
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