The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-27
Tho Next Changes in the Senate.

At this years elections Legislators arc to
be chosen in many of the States who will
participate In tho choice Of United States
Senators to fill the vacancies arising on
March 4, 1899. There will be thirty vacan-
cies. Thirty Senators go out of Office on
that day, thirty go out Of Office on March
4, 1901, and thirty on March 4, 1908. the
total number Of States now being forty
FIVE, and the total number of Senators, with
a full complement, being ninety.
OF the thirty Senators who will 60 out Of
Office in what has sometimes been called
1.-THE next batch" fifteen are Democrats.
eleven are Republicans, three are silver
Republicans, and one is q Populist. The
loss to the Democratic side probably will
be more serious than to the Republicans,
not merely in numbers, but In respect of
the men who go out. Among the Demo-
Gratis whose terms expire are ARTHUR p.
GoRMAN of Maryland, CHARLES ]. FAULK.
NER of West Virginia, JOHN l.. MITCHELL
of Wisconsin, and DAVID TURPIE Of In.
diana. TURPIE has already announced
himself as a candidate for reelection two
years hence, but he, like FAULKNER, COR
MAN, and MITCHELL, is by no means sure
Of reelection, for the three States
from which these Senators come were
carried by the Republicans by large MAORI
ties in November last. West Virginia gave
10000 Republican majority and has now a
Republican Governor in Office. The present
Legislature has a Republican majority of
81 on joint ballot. Maryland was carried
for MCKINLEY by a majority Of moro than
10000. 1t also has a Republican Governor,
and the present Legislature Is Republican
by more than two to one. Wisconsin was
carried for MCKINLEY by a majority Of
more than 100000. A Republican Gov.
ernor was elected by nearly 100000 and
the Republicans control the Legislature
nearly five to one. Whatever chance of
Democratic success there may be In Indiana,
there Is less in the other three States named.
Senator GoRMAN has been In the Senate
since 1881. Senator FAULKNER became a
United States Senator in 1887.
The terms of some of the best known Re-
publicans, active and influential as leaders
of the Senate, expire on March 4, 1899, but
these Senators happen to hail from States in
which the supremacy of the Republicans Is
so well established that the possibility of
Democratic success Is hardly to be consid-
cred. In the list of these Senators are MEL
SON w. ALDRIcH of Rhode Island. MAT
THEW S. QUAY of Pennsylvania, now more
than ever a Republican State; HENRY
CABOT LODGE of Massachusetts,, CUsHMAN
X. DAVIS of Minnesota, EUGENE HALE of
Maine, and REDFIELD PROCTOR of Vermont.
In no one of these six overwhelmingly Re-
publican States is there any prospect of
Democratic success.
New England Is now without a Demo.
cratic Senator. The four Middle States,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and
Delaware, have three Democrats, all of
whose terms end with the next change
In the Senate. One of those whose terms
expire is EDWARD MURPHY Of New York
another Is JAMES SMITH, Jr., of New
Jersey; the third Is GEORGE GRAY of
Delaware. In the South n Southwest
there are several Democratic Senators
whose terms expire on the 4th of March,
1899, and who have, at least, some pros.
pect of return to Washington, or of being
succeeded by Democrats of similar political
notions. These are ROGER Q. MILLS OF
Texas, JOHN W. DANIEL of Virginia,
Senator PAsCo Of Florida, and Senator
BATE of Tennessee. There will be one
Democratic vacancy in California and
another in North Dakota. The term OF
Senator HAwLEY, Republican, In Con.
n~ecticut expires on the same day.
The three silver Republicans whose terms
expire in 1892 are CANNON of Utah, MAN.
TIE of Montana, and STEWART of Nevada,
three representatives of States of minor