The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-21
IT'S A DEMOCRATIC YEAR
Encouraged by the Results of
the Elections.
HEAVY LOSSES IN MAINE
Have Depressed the Republicans = A
Democratic Majority OF Fifty in the
Next House Is a Certainty.
Republicans Claim Ten.
Washington Bureau of the Standard, !
No. 1145 q street n. w. I

Washington, Sept. 1.-THE result of
the Maine election has mad the effect
Of greatly stimulating all democrats
connected with the management of the
campaign this year. A corresponding
depression on the parts of the republi-
cans is everywhere visible. The repub-
lican managers have found it necessary
to summon Congressman Dingley as a
witness hat the Maine defeat-for such
It really amounts todd not hurt so
much after all. In a formal card to the
newspapers Chairman Dingley points
to the fact that all the republican con-
gressmen were elected as significant of
the result in November. AS Maine has
not elected a democratic congressman
in 20 years the Importance of this as
sertion is not easy to understand. The
fact remains that the republicans have
lost so heavily in Maine that If the pro-
portion of losses were to keep up in
other, and closer, states at the Novem-
Der election republican hope of carry
ing the congressional elections would
be rudely shattered. None of the mid
die western states, excepting Wisconsin,
could possibly stand u a loss in the
republican vote without going over to
the democratic party and its allies.
Several of the Eastern states are easily
III ~ ooiAC NotC6ciy a ShSoiiiSNoiASN
which goes far toward explaining the
deep concern which the republican
congressional committee is now exhib-
iting in the result of the Pine Tree
states election. There is really small
reason for BILE hope in republi-
can success in the next house, whether
there is any encouragement in the
Maine figures or not.
The democratic congressional commit
tees reports from the various states
are such as to render the managers
certain of the result. The officers of
the committee have just completed a
careful and conservative compilation of
the chances in the various states which
indicates that there will be a democratic
and silver majority of not less tina 50
in the new congress. This estimate
does not differ as radically as may APP
pear from that made by the officers of
the republican committee. The latter
assert, of course, hat the mountain
and slope states are going to show re.
publican gains hat viii easily offset
gains which it is admitted democrats
are 30 make in the East. Secretary
Kerr of the democratic congressional
committee has this week pointed out,
in a remarkably clear interview, the
manifest inconsistency of this asser-
ton. He has shown that the republi-
cans might win all the members from
that region-an absurd proposition. of
course-but that even such q gain
would not offset the advantage which
the democratic party is certain to Sc
cure in three of the Eastern states
alone. At the same time the secretary
asserts that, instead of losing seats in
the West, the democratic and silver al
lies will certainly gain a few seats in
the West, notably in California, Kan
sas and Nebraska.
The following is the statement of the
chances, by states, as compiled by one
of the best informed democrats in the
counsels of the party managers:
Eastern States D0uht-