Arizona republican., 1898-11-28
AGAINST FREE SILVER.

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 While whistlfAg to keep his silver courage up, MT w. J. Bryan seems to have overlooked some very significant results in the recent election. He as sumes that the disaster which fell up on the silver forces in the western states, including hls own state, which is now 10 send a sound money senator, was more than offset by democratic gains elsewhere, and he points with pride to the lessened republican ma jority in the house Of representatives. As a matter of fact, silver will be able to muster in the next house a far less number of votes than it did in the last house, for the democratic gains were not silver gains by any means. The democratic party made nearly all Of it's gains in New York, Pennsylvania, Mas sachusetts, New Jersey and nlioo.s, and few of the democratic congressman in ishese states can be ranked as sil- yer men. Compared with the last house, the republicans loaJ thiIty-seyen members and gained seventeen. and with hardly an exception these seven teen replace silver men. The net gain by the democratic party, therefore, is twenty, but cut Of tho gross gain of thirty-sevca, more than thirty are sound money men, and this shows an actual less Of members to the silver forces. On a square issue before the coming house it is doubtful if silver can muster many more than two-thirds of The democratic representatives
 B3J: it is in the senate where the most pronounced losses to silver make themselves manifest. As 9 result Of flirting with free coinage and populism, the democratic party finds itself rep resented ia that body by less numerf- cal strength than in any year since 1872, as is thus set forth in a sorrow ing editorial in the New York World:
 Of the ninety senators on March next, only twenty-six will be demo- crats, four less than one-thiTd.
 Tn the elections of 1872, the demo- crats got only twenty senators. But that was twenty out of scaa.e of sev- enty-f0ur members. In the elections 
 to twen.y-nine And since then the democrats have always had just a few less or just a few more than the re- publicans.
 ''Twenty-two of these twenty-six sen ators will be from eleven southern states. One will be a holdover from Delaware, which now has a republican legislature. One will be. ?. sound mon ey ncldover from Kentucky. The two remaining will re from Utah, which has only three electoral votes. There will be no democratic senator from the north or northwest or the Pacific slope. There will be no democratic senator from Maryland, West Virginia or North Carolina.
 Tn all, the democratic senators will represent 129 electoral yotes-mEch less than one4third Of the total elec- toral vote-''
 Who can doubt that this overthrow of democracy is a direo1 result Of democracy's attitude on She money question? The republicans entered the recent campaign with the pledge that if given a majority in the senate they would enact some Legislation strength ening the gold standard. The issue was clean cut and thoroughly under stood, and the result shows how largely the people are agreeable 0 such fnan- cial leg:slaticn All Of the democratic leaders, with the exception oi 4hose inseparably tted to Bryan, accept the result in the ssnat5 as 6 verdict against free coinage.