Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-02-06
New Senators,

article, names the new senators elect
md further refers to vacancies and
existing complications
The exact political status Of the sem
ate will not be known until the final
adjustment ofthe difficulties which exist
In Kentucky and Delcware, and until
all the vacancies are filed. There are
deadlocks in several of the states. From
present appearances. instead of two, or
at most three, groupe of members, the
next senate will have five, namely, the
republicans, the free silver democrats,
The populists, the honest money demo-
Gratis and the silver republicans. In
twelve states senators were chosen on
Tuesday last In six of these the present
incumbents were reelected, as follows
Orvile ii. Platt, republican, in Con.
necticnt; George &. Vest, democrat, in
Missouri; j. Ii. Gallinger. republican in
New Hampshire James x. Jones, dem
ocrat, in Arkansas; Henry NJ. Teller,
silver populist, in Colorado, and Henry
c. Hansbrough, republican, in North
Dakota
"In New York David B. Hill, the DEM
ocratic leader until the wave Of pop
ulism struck and engulfed the demo-
cracy, has been succeeded by Thomas
c. Platt, the recognized and undisputed
leader Of the republicans. In Indian
apolis Charles w. Fairbanks, who was
Il temporary chairman of the republic
can national convention which met in
st. Louis on June l6 and nominated Nc
KInley and Hobart, has been elected to
succeed Eaniel w. Voorhees,. In Penn
sylvania Boies Penrose, an organization
republican, living in the city of Phila-
delphia which has not had represent.
ative in the United States senate for
many years, was chosen by the republi-
cans by an overwhelming majority at
Harrisburg, to succeed Don Cameron.
In Illinois William +. Mason. a native
New Yorker, born in the southern tier,
from which likewise Senator-elect PIatt
and Senator Teller hail, was chosen with
unexpected unanimity to succeed John
NJ. Palmer, the candidate ofthe national
democracy for the presidency. Mr..
Mason lives in the city of Chicago thus
in Illinois, as also in Indiana and Penn
sylvania on Tuesday, the disposition of
| the dominant party to look to the large
cities for senator candidates, instead of
to the minor towns, is noticeable. Sen
ator Palmer as resident of Springfield,
Senator Cameron of Harrisburg, and
Senator Voorhees, Of Terre ilaute. In
North Carolina Peter Pritchard, silver
republican, has been reelected, and in
! Kansas the remarkable William Alfred
Peffer, who had no previous experience
in congress when elected to the senate
by the populists in 1891, has been
turned town" in favor of another pop
ulist from the Sunfower state, namely.
William A. Harris, who was elected
congressman in 1892 by the democrats
and populists in opposition to the re-
publican candidate. PETER, the present
senator, and Harris, who succeeds him,
have each war record. PETER was on
the union side in the Eighty-third
Illinois infantry; Harris was on the
confederate side in the Army of North
Virginia. PETER is lawyer by pro-
fession; Harris, who succeeds him, is a
civil engineer. PETER has had nothing
to DO with the Union Pacific railroad
except to denounce that corporation
Harris aided in the construction of the
Kansas division as an engineer. Peffer
is ten years older than his successor and
is said to know very much less Both
are ardent and unconditional silverites
and the political divisions in the senate
are not altered in any respect by the
substitution of one for the other.
From Delaware there are three
claimants for the seat of senator, Colonel
Du Pont, a republican, and Richard r.
Kenney, democratic silverite, whose
election is declared irregular by part
Of the republicans at Dover, while other
republican members declare that there
is no vacancy in the delegation from
Delaware. Colonel Du Pont, heretofore
elected being entitled to the seat Ken
lucky has but one senator, William
Lindsay, and the post of his former
colleague. Senator Blackburn. remains
vacant, the division of the two political
parties in this former democratic strong
hold being now very close, and, under
the biennial system, there being nc
legislature in session in Frank fort this
winter, unless convoked by the republi
can governor, Bradley. Il is said thai
Bradley himself has senatorial aspira
tions. The date fixed for the next ses
sion Of the Kentucky legislature il
January 3, 1885,