The morning news., 1894-10-03
The NEXT HOUSE,
campaign Committees Hard at Work
Tor Their Respective Parties.

me Claims Made by the Democrats
and Those Made by the Republios,s
The Present Standing of the DeIege.
uons-What the PopuIists Hone TO
Gain.
washington, Oct. 2.-The managers Of
the two great parties. with beadouartors
al Washington, have begun to figure ON
the result. Though lying in the VALLEY Of
'he Potomac, Washington is the field
marshaI's stand of the battle which ia
waglng with greater or less bitterness in
the contest for the next House Of Renre-
SehtatIFes. There is no business firm or
factory in the country where there ,s
more business done in twentv-four bours
thau at the democratic and republican
headquarters at the capital. Though 50
many miles from some of the scenes of
CONNECT yet these two committees are
really IN the thick of the fight.
A correspondent can hardly RELY on
the figures he gets at either Headquarters,
Tor both Chairman Babcock and Senator
auIkner are claiming the next House.
Ihey are both straining every nerve tn
ala Uue workers in the campaign. The
loss OF 1Orty-tnree members by the demo
Gratis would deprive them of majority
IN the next House, which will either nut
yuG republicans IN control or give the
Dd!ahce OF power to the popu-
nstS IN order to obtain CON
trol of the House the republicans
will have to secure fifty-three districts
more than they control in the present
| congress, for the democrats now have 2lS
| ulsLflcts and the republicans l26 and the
/ populIsts u. Chairman Babcock predicts
freely that his party will receive the
necessary % districts and believes that
lhe democrats al the very least will lose
the necessary 43, which will deprive them
OF a majority. Chairman Babcock is not
so confident, however, that he is willing
/ TO be quoted.
senator Faulkner says he has no fear
and certainly does not seem to possess
/ any, that the democrats will not be in
! control Of the next House 1t is no easy
| thing to capture tifUy-three districts from
/ the democrats, for the republicans are
| practically excluded from the south. and
are limited in the remaining territory for
their gains.
Tine reports from every section are
most encouraging for the democrats" "
said the senator, land they have only to
Keep up the aggressive campaign which
they nave started 10 attain a good work
ing majority in the tifty-fourth congress-
DO not believe we will lose ANYTHING in
Indiana, and we expect some gains
in the west. l have made a care
full survey and collaboration of the
reports and private advices from Georgia,
Alabama and Texas where the populists
seem to be strongest, and giving them the
utmost limit l do not think it possible Tor
| the pOpulsts to make more than two
gains in those three states Campaign
speakers mustrealize, however, that their
work must be Of the aggressive and not
OF the apologetic nature" "
What the democrats are working for
chiefly is to secure an actual majority of
the states in case the election OF the next
President shall be thrown into the House.
There are fOrty-four states represented
IN the House at present; and the consti-
tuition requires an actual majority of the
states shall vote in order to elect Presi-
dent. The admission of Utah will make
| forty-iye states, but it is safe to predict
that the Mormon country will send a
| democratic majority In its delegation.
The democrats now have control of the
| delegations from twenty-six states as fol-
lows Alabama 9 to 0, Arkansas to 0,
California democrats, 2 republicans and
populist Connecticut 3 to l, Delaware l
to o, Florida TO 0, Georgia II to 0, Hi
nOis II to 10, Indiana II to , Kentucky 10
to /, Louisiana 8 to O. Maryland to O.
Mississippi to 1, Missouri IA to 1, New
Jersey TO ,. New York l9 to l5 North
Carolina to l, Ohio II to 10, Rhode Is
land 2 TO Q, South Carolina to l. Tennes-
see to ?, Texas l3 to 0, Virginia 10 to o.
West Virginia 4 to o, Wisconsin to 4,
Wyoming | to @.
The republicans now have maiOrities in
n state nalapDr1nDG