Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-18
A Safe and Sound Congress.

Some of the Democratic and POpuIIst
Statesmen VINO VIII Retire to Private
Life.
From the New York Sun.
The Republican administration of Presi-
dent Mckinley has been supported by the
pee pie of the country in the election of a
Republican Senate and a Republican House
of Representatives. The control of both
branches of Congress now rests with the
Republican party, and the country has de.
monstrated anew its fidelity to the prnci-
pies of the party and to the policies to
which the party is pledged. Once more by
the election of Republican Legislatures in
the various states the Senate has been trans
formed into a Republican body, and the
House, while losing much of its Republ-
can strength, still possesses Republican
majority sufficient for all purposes of legis
laton.
BY this transformation of a day the
country has been the gamer. The Senate
has finally emerged from its condition of
doubt and uncertainty, and the adverse
majority made up of Democrats, Siverites
and Populists has been overcome, to the
benefit of the nation. States which have
been Republican and have turned aside
from the straight path to follow the phan-
toms of Organism, free silver and Popu-
lism have returned to the Republican
ranks, and once more California, Indiana,
Nebraska, New York, North Dakota and
Wisconsin will be represented in the Sen
ate by Republican senators, instead of by
a divided delegation. In California the
Hon. Stephen NJ. White will give way to
a Republican, soon to be chosen by the
.I.t TO-, 4 a.
with the services of the Hon. David Tur-
pie, pronounced Bryanite and free silver
Democrat, and he will be succeeded by a
sound money Republican. No less graft
fyins is the assurance of the defeat of the
Hon. w. V. Allen, Populist, of Nebraska,
whose place will be more worthily filled by
sound money Republican. What the
country loses in wind it will gain in wis
dom. New York will send to Washington
a Republican colleague for the Hon. T. G.
Plat, and the Hon, Edward Murphy
jr., will retire to Trojan seclusion.
North Dakota will send Repub-
ican to supplant the Hon. w. n.
Roach, and the Hon. Charles j. Faulkner
of West Virginia will yield his seat to a
Republican successor. Wisconsin will re-
turn another Republican senator, to sue
coed the Hon. John l.. Mitchell and to act
as the colleague of the Hon. John C..
Spooner. The little state of Delaware
| distinguishes herself by electing a Re-
| publican senator to succeed the Hon.
George Gray, now in Paris with the peace
commission. Thus the state of the Bay
ards breaks a long succession of Demo.
cratic senatorships TO provide seat for
a Republican. Finally, New Jersey elects
a Republican legislature which will choose
a Republican senator TO succeed the Hon
James Smith, jr.
All these are gains, and perhaps before
| the record is closed other names may be
added to the list of Republican recruits in
the Senate. Meantime, it is gratifying t.
note that not in single state has the Re
publican representation in the Senate beer
disturbed. Each state now represented by
a Republican will remain true to the faith
returning either the present senator or q
fellow Republican. The net gain, there
fore, of ten or a dozen seats places the Sen
ate securely under Republican control, anC
removes the opposition of combined Demo
Gratis, Populists and Silvertes, which ha
for so long time checked Republican leg
islaton in the upper branch of Congress.
The large Republican majority of So il
the present House of Representatives has
not been maintained. NOT was IL expected
that it would be, even by the most sanguin
Republican prediction. There is deeI
comfort, however, in the assurance tina
the House still remains Republican by
safe majority, although the exact figure
have not yet been determined. The re
suits show that while the Republicans hav
lost in the districts of the East, they hav
made notable gains in the West, especial
in states which have in recent years gon
over to Organism and Populism. In New
York city and in Chicago the Republican
loss has been particularly noticeable, Will
the country districts have, as a rule, main
tanned their Republican strength, If the
have not increased it. The general resul
insures a Republican majority which vii
be sufficient to enact the legislation whicl
the country demands. Because the Reput
lican candidates have made their fight o.
national issues and have kept the cause o
sound money conspicuously to the fore
the election of a Republican Congress
significant of the sentiment Of the peopl
throughout the country. More significant
however, is the especial tribute of conf
dence which the voters have given to tn
administration in the election of represer
tatives who will stand by the administr;
ton in the grave and important work I