The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-11-16
THE ELECTIONS.

A I;rlef Review of the Field After the
| battle The bay seems Ia Have neen
| Something In the Nature OF - Waterloo
for the Democracy The Next House 81
Representatives. WIN Have = Working
Republican Majority -ropuiism wssns
In a..
In the elections Of the 9th the demo
rats were unable 10 hold their own.
even in the southern states Tennes-
see j. close. Texas drops her majority
10 small figures. and perhaps loses one
congressman In the republicans and
one 10 the populists- Louisiana sur
renders nothing 10 the sugar bolt.
Kentucky drops a congressman in tho
Ashland district. where W. {. T.
Breckenridge is now the representa-
tive. and probably two others.
Elsewhere the returns were an al
most unbrokcn story Of republican
gains
Pennsylvania majority Of 2la. 900 Is
not as bad as New York's Of over i00.-
200, ohio's still greater figures and
Michigan's of at least J0.o0o. Indiana
gives a republican majority of 10000.
Many of the democratic leaders in
the house are defeated or in jeopardy.
Wilson. of West Virginia. has APP
parently gone down. William NJ
Springer. 81 Illinois. is another of the
fallen.
Missouri has not more than held her
own. Bartholdt and JOY are elected to
congress in st. Louis over Coppinger
and E>penschied. The Missouri state
ticket is democratic. but the party has
nothing which calls for rooster. 1t.
Louis democrats managed TO elect
three members of the general city
ticket
The republicans will organize the
next national house. and may have the
senate From a plurality of over 40.
the democrats have shrunk To a minori-
ty of i56 to 1872. The populists are
clear outside. having no balance of
power and only seven members.
The populists have done nothing ia
speak Of for themselves. They gained
something in Texas and Nebraska. but
lost in Kansas and Colorado Waite
and Lcwelling are beaten.
With all allowances. however. for
" hdA hAaN haHf'ti. ~ - t4tA4 thaA ~
was rcpu blican day.
A careful canvass of the returns that
have come to hand show that the re-
publicans will have 1872 members in the
Fifty-fourth congress.
The democrats. on the basis of the
same returns. will have l56 members,
while the populists are credited with :.
This aversion to democrats asserted
itself most strongly in New York.
where gain of fourteen congressman
was made. the delegation now stand
ing thirty-one republicans to three
democrats Brooklyn got in on the
ground floor of the deal and elected
tive repu blicans To congress.
The feature of the contest in New
York city was the number of adverse
ballots that dropped in Congressman
Amos Cummings district.
Next to New York comes Ohio and
Illinois a close second.
Michigan has a solid republican dele
cation. and in Pennsylvania the re
publicans claim all but six members
The democrats lost two in West Nir
ginia and probably three.
There was an upheaval Gin kansa
that il will take further returns To in
dicate the extent If
LATE Pence got left in Colorado AND
Jerry Simpson is reported to have l,op
votes between himself and a seat in The
fifty-fourth congress.
Arkansas. Mississippi, Virginia. Norti
Carolina and Florida returned SOLE
democratic delegates