Evening star., 1898-11-09

were very late in coming in, so that no sat
isfactory estimate could be made on the
complexion of the House.
About II o'clock a buffet lunch was served
In the dining room of the Normandie. The
anxious watchers remained until long after
midnight.
First Important News
The first important news received con-
corning congressional elections was that
H. c. Smith of Adrian, Mich, was proba-
ely elected This was contained in a tele-
gram from VIM. B. Thompson. The second
district of Michigan was regarded by the re-
publicans as the most doubtful district of
the state, so that the election of Smith. If
1t should be verified. will be in the nature of
a clear gain where nothing was looked for
Up to $50 o'clock dispatches indicated the
election of about a score of congressman.
though with the exception of the second
Michigan district these returns were what
We're generally expected. Dispatches indi-
Gated that doubtless Quarles. democrat
tenth district of Virginia. had been elected.
The republicans had made a fight in this
district and it was believed they had
slight chance of carrying it.
Some of the Dispatches.
The first four districts of Arkansas went
democratic. according to the kilograms, and
then came word that Livingston in the fifth
and Bartlett in the sixth Georgia We're elect
ed Emerson, republican, of the twenty
third New York was declared to be elected
but no nomination against him had been
fIled.
Shortly after o'clock a telegram was re-
Ceived that Dockery, democrat, in the sixth
North Carolina district had been elected.
but as this was too early for any returns to
have been gathered in that district no at
lention was paid to the report.
The sixth North Carolina district consists
of four counties skirting the northern
boundary of the state, and the scene
of the escapades of the red shirt men. 10.
Democratic Gathering Point.
The headquarters of the democratic con-
gressional committee, 7l2 18th street, was
the gathering point for large throng of
democrats who, finding little on the news
paper screens to encourage them. sought
consolation there. AT no time during the
evening was the enthusiasm marked, not
even when about IL O'Clock Secretary Kerr
of the committee announced that returns
received by him up to that hour indicated
a gain of 36 in the House of Representa-
tives for the democrats. Mr.. Kerr, at that
time, also assured the faithful that the
opposition to the republicans in the next
House would be rot less than 1876.
Things looked rather gloomy when this
announcement was made by Mr.. Kerr,
those at headquarters having early in the
evening admitted that the returns from
New York indicated the election of Col.
Roosevelt. Ex-Representative Turner of
New York was one of the last to acknQwl-
edge the defeat of Van Wyck but about
IL O'Clock he admitted that the Tammany
man had not run expected by his ad-
herentS.
The returns were received by Secretary
Kerr over a special wire and also through
the long distance telephone, and by those
means he kept we'll in touch with the dem
ocratic managers throughout the country.
He was about the first man at headquar-
ters to admit that the election of Roose-
Welt seemed certain, but he at no time
wavered in his expressed belief that the
republicans would lose the next House OF
Representatives.
During the evening about every democrat
of local prominence called, but those of
national fame were notable for their abs
sonce, it being explained that they were
at their homes in the various states. The
defeat of Van Wyck appeared to trouble
the members of the party at headquarters
very little. their interest seeming to be al
most entirely centerCd in the returns re-
specting the complexion of the next House.
So. when the defeat of Van Wyck became
a matter Of certainty, and the returns in
dicated democratic control of the next
House, the expression was general that
the democratic party had the best of the
argument, and the throng therefore de-
parted with smiling faces.