The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-11-10
RETIRED BY THEIR PARTY.
Members of Congress Who Failed
of denomination.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-No matter how the
election may result, the work of the nominal
ing conventions makes it certain that large
number of the faces which are familiar on the
floor of the House will not be visible when the
Fffty-fourth Congress is convened. No less
than l03 of the members of the present House
failed of denomination. Take the Ways and
Means Committee, for instance. This COM
mittee ranks as the most important in the
House, and vet no less than five Of the Demo
crat members Messrs. Cochran, Bryan, Stew
ems, Whiting, and Breckenridge of Arkansas,
were not renominated. Should Chairman
Wilson and Mr. Bynum both fail ofre-eleetion
it would make total loss of seven Democrats
from this committee alone. The Interstate
and Foreign Commerce Committee suffers in
even greater proportion. Its Chairman, Mr.
Wise. together with Brickner of Wisconsin.
Mallory Of Florida, Caruth of Kentucky, Dur
borrow of Illinois, Fielder of New jersey, and
Gresham of Texas. were all left at the post
before the Congressional race started, and
several of the other Democrats on the com
mittee, like Mr.. Price of Louisiana, have hard
fights on their hands The Committee on APP
preparations loses three of its present member
ship. Messrs. Breckenridge of Kentucky, Com
pton of Maryland, and O'Neil of Massa-
chusetts, while the Committee on Manufac-
lures will be minus the names of Chairman
Page of Rhode Island, Warner of New York,
Harter of Ohio, German Of Michigan, and
Conn of Indiana.
In Alabama Mr.. Oates goes to the Guberna-
torial chair and Mr.. Turpin is left at home.
| In Arkansas Mr.. Clifton r. Breckenridge has
gone as Minister to Russia Redistricting in
| Illinois and other causes made quite change
in that delegation, retiring Messrs. Black,
| Hunter. Durborow, and Forman of the Demo
Gratis. and Henderson, Childs, Wheeler, and
Funk of the Republicans. -Four members
failed of denomination in Indiana, Brown,
| Hammond, Conn, and Waugh, the latter a
Republican.
The Kentucky Democrats made nearly an
entire sweep. OF the nine Congressman OF
| that party who are at present in the House
only three, Messrs. Montgomery, Berry, and
McCreary, are on the ticket this fall. Mr..
| Paynter has secured Judgeship, and the re-
| manning five, Messrs. Stone, Ellis, Goodnight,
Caruth, and Breckenridge were not renomi.
mated. In Maryland Mr.. Compton accepted
the office of Naval Officer at Baltimore. Mr..
Raynor retired to run for the Goyernorship,
and Mr.. McKaig was succeeded by another
Democrat as the party nominee. Massachu'
| sets loses four of its present members, Messrs.
Stevens, 0'Neil, McEttrick (who is running,
/
| dali. Michigan's list is depleted by the names
of German, Richardson, Whiting, Moon, and
Weadock, four Democrats and one Republi
can.
| In Mississippi, Stockdale and Hooker were
| left at the pole; in Missouri Burns, O'Nelll,
and Fyan, the latter incapacitated by severe
accident, will not trouble themselves about the
result next Tuesday, and in Nebraska Mr..
Bryan, the boy orator of the Platte, is making
a fight to come to the Senate instead of TO the
lower House. Ex-senator Blair has gone by
the board in New Hampshire, while in New
Jersey Messrs. Cadmus and Fielder will end
their terms on the 4th of March.
Exactly one-half of the New York member
ship failed to gain denomination, the sixteen
being Covert, Clancy, Hendrix, Graham, Mag
ner, Dunphy. Campbell. Cochran, Warner,
| Straus, Schermerhorn, and Lockwood, Demo
Gratis, and Marvin, Weaver, Belden, and Van
| Voorhis, Republicans Mr. Graham, owing
| to illness. did not serve in the last session Of
Congress, while Mr.. Schermerhorn, although
| not an invalid was absent to almost equal
extent Mr.. Lockwood, as is well known, is
on the State ticket as Lieutenant-G Governor.
North Carolina turned down three members,
Grady, Bum, and Alexander. The Ohio
delegation will be practically reconstructed.
Messrs. Storer, Donovan, Bundy, Hare, Har-
teri who mas moved TO Hmiaueiphla, HearSOn,
Ikirt, and White, FIVE Democrats and three
Republicans, are scratched. Pennsylvania
put cross mark against the names of Mellow
ell, McAleer, Mutchler, Hopkins, Wolverton
(who is serving his first term, Beltzhoover,
Heiner, and Kribbs. In Rhode Island Mr..
Page stepped down, and in South Carolina
DR.. Shell will not return.
The Tennessee delegation remains intact
except in the First district, where Mr. TAYLOR
is not candidate. Texas retires Mr.. Kilgore.
the famous kicker, and Messrs. Gresham and
Paseha Virginia Democrats failed to re-
nominate Messrs. Wise, Epps, Edmunds, and
Marshall, while the always -entertaining Wilson
will be among the missing from Washington,
although he may be heard from in the Senate.
John 0. Pendleton and Farmer Capehart
fell by the wayside in West Virginia. aud IN
Wisconsin Messrs. Somers, Brickner, and
Haugen were not nominated for another term.
Even the Territories took hand in the gen
eral demolition, for Marcus Aurelius Smith
familiar face is to be seen no more after the
| 4th of March.