Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-05-21

ocrats S. In the present Congress the dele
cation is unanimously republican; and a
republican United States senator has been
gained in this Stgtc.
In North Carolina Cleveland received, in
1892 a plurality of 32,eo5. In 1894 the fusion
ticket won by a plurality of 2O243. In the
Legislature elected in 1892 the democrats
had a majority over the republicans and
popuists of 106. In 1894 the Legislature
had fusion majority Of G2, electng one re-
publican and one populist senator. In the
SD Congress the delegation stood demo-
Gratis s, republicans 1 in the Saith Congress
republican representatives.
In 1892 President Cleveland received in
Tennessee a plurality of 36,5N. In 1894
Henry Clay Evans, the republican candi-
date for governor, was given in the Of
fetal returns, made up by democratic Of
f1cials, a plurality OF 7s4, but the Legis-
lature deliberately over-rode the popular
will and seated Turney, the democratic
candidate. Tho present Congressional del
eeation stands republicans 4, democrats s,
as compared with the delegation in the
SD Congress, which stood republicans 2.
democrats s. In previous years the oppo-
stion to the democratic party In Texas
has been so feeble that 1t could hardly be
dignihcd In o. tabulated result as any
thing greater than scattering. In 1892
Cleveland received n plurality over Har-
rson Of 161 $40. In 1891 the democratic cam
didate for governor received a majority
over the republican and popuist candi-
dates of 276. The republicans elected a
congressman in ono OF the wool growing
districts, and the democrats had only mar
row pluraities over the populists in four
districts. and over the republicans in
three districts.
In West Virginia there was no state
election in 1894, but solid democratic
delegation in Congress was replaced by a
solid republican delegation, Mr.. Wilson,
author OF the Wilson tariff bill, being
among the defeated. Tho aggregate re-
publican pluyalities on congressman gave
republican plurality of 1880 for tho
State. In 1892 the democratic majority in
the Legislature was &c. This was changed
in 1894 to a republican majority of AZ, and a
republican United States senator was
elected.
AS yet Arkansas, Florida. Mississippi
South Carolina and Virginia hold to the
old order of things, and the change In
Georgia IL not as remarkable as in the other
States mentioned, but in the South as a
whole, there has been a wonderful. revo.
luton. Out OF tho solid South" is being
evolved tho New South" Mason and
Dixon's line exists in history nlone.
Tho laws OF trade and commerce ant
the softening infiuenceskof Time are "re
constructing" the South more effectually
than any measures on the statute books
and this without in any way disparagint
the labors of the great statesmen of tn,
Reconstruction period. The South is M
longer a great plantation. The ore in tn
mountains Is being made into steel. Cot
ton mills are being erected near the cot
ton fields.
Texas is becoming a great wool-growinl
: section, new industries are rapidly spring
ing up, and with this growth OF manufac
lures. now only in It's inception. comes
perception of the wisdom of the policy O
: protection. The rapid growth OF protec
ton sentiment throughout the South, sine
1892 Is one of the most remarkable move
HlentS III the history OF american pOntlCs
In this breaking of the Solid South Their
is cause for something more than NOR
partisan qualification. 1t means that oil
issues and hatreds are passing away an
that our common country is more trul
united Whatever evils the populists ar
responsible for whatever financial vagal
les they may have promulgated, they mus
have the credit of helping to do away wit
the intimidation, ballot box stufi1ng an
the long series of election frauds whic
have made popular elections for so man
years a farce in many sections OF tn
South.
There is good reason to believe that tn
work so satisfactorily begun in this sec
ton will be continued, and that not a fe'
of the electoral votes cast by the Souther
States in the coming election will be foun
swelling the republican column.
y Major CIRCUITS Opponents Desperate
n Advices from different parts of the stat
t show that the candidacy Of Maj. Josia