The Saint Paul globe., 1896-11-30

These five states had twenty-five
Democratic members in the Fifty-third
congress. They haven't a solitary
Democratic member in the F'ifty-fi
congress, though, traditiona1ly, New
Jersey and Maryland are Democratic
strongholds, answering in their past
loyalty to the Democratic party, and
Connecticut has not been carried by
the Republicans in a national election
until this year since 1872, with the sin
gle exception of 1880, when Gen. Gar
field carried it, polling sos per cent
of the total vote West Virginia has
been regarded of late years as certain
Democratic state, and Wisconsin has
twice been carried by the Democrats
on the governorShip of late, and it was
in the Democratic party column in
1892 Here, then, are twenty-five seats
sacrificed in congress in states strong
ly inclined toward the Democratic
party, but now deprived of any vote in
the Democratic party caucus in the
house.
In return for such losses, and for the
losses in other states, New York, Alaba-
ma, Illinois and Michigan among them,
where have been the gains, for clear
ly there have been some Democratic
gains in order to make up the Demo-
cratic membership Of 131? First, there
is Kansas. 1t sent only one Democrat
to the Fifty third congress; there will
be two Democrats in the Fifty fifth.
Then there is Nebraska, the home of
the Boy Orator, which returns this
year four Democratic congressman, in
place of one only elected to the Fifty
third congress. South Carolina, the
state of Tillman, has a solid Democrat
ic delegation Of seven, where there were
six only elected in 1892. South Dakota,
which had two Republican congress-
men in 1892, has two Democrats elected
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Democrats, though perhaps they be-
long more properly to the Populist
column Three big states, with large
representation in congress, Georgia,
Missouri and Texas, have elected thir-
ty-f1ve Democrats to the next house
Of representatives, and they, with Vir-
ginia's eight, represent a third of the
membership on the Democratic side,
and in no one of these four was there
Populist returned, the Democrats
refusing any partnership with the Pop
ulists in either Georgia or Texas and
the relations between the Virginia and
Missouri Populists and the Democrats
of those two states being so distinct
lively hostile that 1t required all the di-
plomacy and correspondence of Marion
Butler to keep them apart. In those
states in which, as the results show
the Democrats did well in the recent
elections, they maintained their party
organization without concessions to
the Populists, but in those states in
which concessions were made to the
Populists, it seems that the penalty
was severe. Two states, one III the
South and one in the Northwest, fur
nish illustrations of this.
North Caroline has been uniformly
Democratic for many years.
The Populists were numerous. and
the chairman of the Populist national
committee, Senator Butler, was chosen
from that state, with special reference
to the aid which he would bring to the
Bryan ticket. Yet such is the inherent
hostility and repugnance of true Dem
ocrats to Populism or anything resem-
bling it, that while in the last presi-
Dental election eight Democrats and
one Republican were chosen represent
atives from North Carolina, this year
the Republican representation is in
creased to three, the Democratic repre-
sentation reduced to that number, and
the Populists have an equal share. In
Minnesota, in which large concessions
were made to the Populists and silver
Republicans, two Democrats were cho-
sen in 1892. The Democrats, Populists
and silver Republicans combined were
beaten in all seven of the districts of
the state this year.
The real gamers from the political al
lance between the Democrats and the