The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-09-13
LAYING TREIR PLANS.
Republican Schemes For Throwing
the Next Presidential Elec-
ton Into the House.

a special dlspatch from Washlng-
ton, D. c., under date of Sept.
18th, makes the following interest
ing announcements:
The Republican managers at
their headquarters here are exulting
over the result in Maine. They are
gloating as if they had carried a
Democratic state. Their boastful
fulminations through the evening
republican papers here provoke the
ridicule of sensible people.
The republican managers say to-
night they are striving to control
the next house and that their eff
forts will be all directed to obtain
ing majority of the state delega-
tions, as they feel confident the
next presidential election will be
thrown into the house. Thus they
confess they have no real hope of
winning at the hands of the people
at large. Their onlT chance is to
control states enough to win in the
house, Under the constitution if a
presidential election is brought into
the house a state counts as one
vote, and it requires a majority of
the states to elect. A state may
vote for a candidate who has re-
ceived the highest number of votes
in the electoral college. In 1896 it
will be democratic, republican and
populist candidates. The party
holding the majority of a state del
egation would cast the vote of that
state. There are now forty-four
states in the Union. OF these the
democrats control a majority Of rs,
the republicans IA and the populists
3. The latter also holding the bal
ance of power in another, thus
making 4. If the people of Utah
comply with the provisions of the
enabling act passed at the recent
session of Congress and adopt the
constitution to be submitted to a
popular vote, that state will elect a
member Of Congress and two sena-
tors in time to take their seats in
December, 1895. That would make
forty-6ve states and it would still
require twenty-three to elect a pres
ident. The northern states having
delegations now controlled by dem
ocrats are California, Connecticut,
Illinois, Indiana, New York, New
Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Wyo-
ming and Wisconsin, 10. In order
to control a majority of the delega-
tions the republicans must capture
nine states in addition to those they
now hold.
Illinois has been redistricted by a
democratic legislature and the re-
apportionment sustained by re-
publican supreme court, The eX-
cess of republican hopes in Indiana
is to carry two more districts which
would leaye the delegation standing
8 democrats to 4 republicans. New
Jersey, even in the darkest days of
democracy, never failed to elect a
majority of democrats. The latest
reports from Wisconsin are that
the democrats will get six of the
ten members. Rhode Island is like
ly to be divided, one democrat and
one republican, and thus lose her
vote in the event of presidential
election being thrown into the
house.
Meantime, the republicans are al
most certain to lose some of their
western silver states to the popu-
lists. An examination of the field
shows that the republicans have a
hard task ahead of them to carry a
majority OF the state delegations in
the next house, They are shouting
now over Maine and Vermont, lest
they will have nothing to shout
over hereafter.