The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-06

Der. OF course. q big republican gain
in the West does not mean so large a
gain in congressional seats. At best
only four republican seats can be gain
ed In California. where the republican
4 Ia rising far higher han any of
our leaders dared to hope"
Even the most confident republicans
admit that New York Is bothering
them They concede that the Van
Wyck campaign has been one OF pro-
digious energy. and that they have
been able to make small Roadway
against IT,. They are v fearful that
the less of New York. will not carry
only governor. but a seat in the SEN
ate.
Chairman Babcock. in the closing in
terviews of the campaign. has stated
that the republicans had to gain but
three votes in order to control the SEN
ate. One of these was 70 be from New
York and another from Indiana. All
the reports from the Hoosier state are
that IL will certainly go democratic,
and will re-elect their veteran of many
political battles. Senator Turpie. the
last of the group of famous democrats
who made Indiana so noted in the pc
Rod before. during and Immediately
after the a In fact. the only sena-
torships now held by democrats that
are regarded by the democratic COM
mittee as in danger are the New Jersey
seat. h Wisconsin seat n the scat
from North Dakota. now held respect
lively by senator James Smith. John
L. Mitchell n william L. Roach. all
democrats.
The following. according to democrat
&c advices, will be the result in the sew
eral states that will elect senators for
the term beginning March 4 next:
Democratic California. Delaware.
Florida. Indiana. Missouri. Montana.
New York, Tennessee, Texas. Utah.
Virginia. Washington. West Virginia
and Wyoming-14.
Silver-Nevada-1.
PopulistvNebraska-1.
Republican Connecticut. Maine,
Massachusetts,. Minnesota. New Jersey.
Pennsylvania. Rhode Island. Vermont
and Wisconsin,.
Observation-Disclosures and North Da-
kota.
Mississippi, Maryland and Ohio have
already elected the senators who will
serve for the terms beginning next
March In the persons of fernando
Money. Lewis +. McComas and Marcus
Aurelius Hanna.
The mugwump and other anti-expan-
sion apers in the East. are having
a great deal of fun with the president
for changing his mind on the subject
of annexation of the Philippines after
his visit to the West. Even William
+. Curtis. the w%ell-known correspond
ent on the Chicago Record, says that
The farther west the president went
the more of an expansionist he became.
and N of his advisers declared that
III they got him as far as Denver he
would have demanded the Canary ISL
and also"
Probably If he had gone farther into
the Rocky mountain region he would
nave been in favor Of taking in the
Balearlcs. The truth is. the presi-
dent seems to be considerably ratified
as to h his political position shall
be on many questions. This is largely
due 20 the fact hat within the past
three weeks. Notwithstanding his own
active campaigning, he has become con-
WINGED that he is to share the common
fate of presidents during the last two
years of his term. and ave what Grow
er Cleveland indignantly mentioned as
"A congress on his hands" which is
hostile to himself and his pet monop-
olies and trusts.
II has already been given out in
Washington that imedimately after
election Mckinley will take out of the
civil service many thousand offices
which are now supposed to pbe under
its protection. He would do IL before
election in the hope of inspiring par
Nh@aa - - WIZ " "
the great danger his party would be
in of losing he ugwump vote through
out New York and the East. 1t can.
however, be positively predicted hat
IL the republicans are defeated in the
elections. this retaliation will promptly
follow. AS the civil service. as operated
by the republicans. has. from the first.
been a partisan scheme. this change
will not e%ndsnger many democrats, for
very few of them have remained in the
government service. 1t will, however.
be a chance to put a great many of the
presidents friends i'm place of old re-
publican b~arnacles that have been in
the department in federal offices
throughout the country and under the
civil service rule for many years.
Commodore" Power is playing n
peculiar, although inconsequential part
in the national campaign as a part Of
the Indianapolis monetary convention
show. He was the member of the
executive committee of that convention
for Montana, n his name appears
among those at the head of thousands
of letters paid for by Mark Hanna)
that are being sent throughout the
country to small business men,. These
letters are a feeble effort to work the
free silver scare Of 1896" over again.
One of these letters. for which Com
modore" Power stands sponsor. and
upon which his name appears. reads as
follows:
I'm congress there are practically but
W pa~rties-the stand committed
AN honest dollar and the chance to
earn it, The other stands committed
to free silver. So powerful is the party
caucus i'm congress that very few mem
bers can hold out against IL, no matter
what individual views they may have
expressed in the past.
Hence 1t is important that you un-
derstand fully and make known widely
the attitude Of the candidate for whom
you are asked to vote:
'Will he vote for a free silver candi-
date for speaker Of the house?
viii he vote for any measures look
ing toward the free coinage of sill
yer?
Twill he vote upon questions of
finance with his party ~caucus?"
Still another of the Power-Hanna let
tiers closes with the following fervent
appeal against the best interests of the