Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-15
THE ELECTIONS.

THE ELECTIONS.
Brief Review of the Field After tho
Battle-The Day Seems to Have Been
Something in the Nature of q Waterloo
for the DemOcracy-TheN Next House Of
Representatives Will Have q Working
Republican neutrality-suspicious. Wasn't
In 1t.
In the elections of the 9Th the demo-
Gratis were unable to hold their own,
even in the southern states. Tenncs-
see is close. Texas drops her majority
to small figures, and perhaps loses one
congressman to the republicans and
one to the populists. Louisiana SUR
renders nothing to the sugar bolt
Kentucky drops a congressman in the
Ashland district. where w. c. p.
Breckenridge is now the representa-.
tive, and probably two others.
Elsewhere the returns were an al
nost unbroken story Of republican
gains.
Pennsylvania's majority of 212. 900 is
rot as bad as New Yorl's of over 1OO,-
90, Ohio's still greater figures and
hIichigan's of at least 10000. Indiana
gives a republican majority of 30, 0OO
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, of 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 Espenschied. The Missouri state
ticket is democratic, but the party has
nothing which calls for rooster. ST.
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 80,
the democrats have shrunk to minori-
ty of 156 to 1872. The populists are
clear outside. having no balance of
power and only seven members.
The populists have done nothing to
speak of for themselves. They gained
something in Texas and Nebraska, but
lost in Kansas and Colorado. Waite
and Lewelling are beaten.
With all allowances, however, for
what may happen, it is clear that it
was republican 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 $50 members,
while the populists are credited with 7.
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 epublicans to three
democrats. Brooklyn got in on the
ground floor of the deal and elected
five republicans 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 solid republican dele
cation, and in Pennsylvania the re-
publicanS claim all but six members.
The democrats lost two in West Vir-
ginia, and probably three.
There was an upheaval Gin Kansas
that it will take further returns to in
dictate the extent of.
LATE Pence got left in Colorado and
Jerry Simpson is reported to have !, ZOO
votes between himself and a seat in the
Fifty-fourth congress.
Arkansas, Mississippi, Virginia, North
Carolina and Florida returned solid
democratic delegates.