Evening star., 1898-10-13
Some Surface Indications.

In Alabama the democrats are likely to
gain one seat. from the fifth district, and
there is TO prospect of their losing any
The six seats from Arkansas they are sure
70 hold. In California the republicans are
likely ID make Il gain of one. but il will be
at the expense Of the popUlists. Colorado
is; expected 10 stand it is. in opposition
to tn republicans. In Connecticut the
democrats have nothing u lose and no hope
of a gain. The democrats stand TO lose
the one seat from Delaware. There is no
thought of 4 change from the solid demo-
cratic delegations from Florida and
Georgia. Idaho will elect a man who Will
cooperate with the democrats. In ILLINOIS,
il is reckoned as possible that the demo-
Gratis may lose TWO seats, from the eigh-
teenth and the twentieth districts, while
they have d chance of gaining six. In In
diana there is nothing for the democrats
to lose and it is rather thought they may
gain three. possibly more. Neither have
they anything 10 lose in Iowa. where there
are two districts the republicans are more
OF less anxious about.
In Kansas the democrats and popu-
lists between them are in danger of losing
three districts. In Kentucky it is calcu
lated that they have prospect Of gaining
three. Louisiana is expected to remain
sOlidly democratic. and Maine has already
elected a solid republican delegation. as
usual. In Maryland the democrats are pret-
~ certain to gain one with a bare possi
b.lfty Of two. They may make a gain of
one in Massachusetts. They have very lit
tie prospect on any gain from Michigan,
though two districts are spoken of as de-
batable There is a fair chance that they
will elect two democrats from Minnesota,
from the sixth and seventh districts. Mis-
sssippi is not expected to make any break
in the solid democratic delegation. The
republicans are seriously threatened with
the loss of two seats from Missouri. but
hope for "A partial offset by the defeat of
Champ Clark in the ninth district. The
democrats will get the seat from Montana,
,F. hi
hope for two seats from Nebraska by the
defeat of silver fusionists. but it is doubt
ful chance. Neyada's 5 one seat viii be held
By silver. There is no idea of a change of
New hampshire from the republican col
umn. In New Jersey there are two seats
the republicans may lose in the fourth and
fifth districts. The republicans expect to
defeat Riggs. democrat. in the third New
York district, and at the same time they
are in danger of losing to the democrats in
that state the fourth the sixth the eighth
the fourteenth and possibly the thirty-first
StandoG in North Carolina.
The democrats and republicans are each
in danger of losing a district in North Car
olina. so the situation there is about a
sjand0ff. The republicans have been anx-
ious about Linney's district, but are less
so now that there has developed differences
among the elements of the opposition. On
the other hand, they are hopeful of defeat
ing kitChin. democrat, in the fifth district
There is nothing fer the democrats in North
Dakota. There is the greatest uncertainty
and difference of opinion about the Ohio
situation. While some republicans insist
that there is not the least danger of their
party losing anything in that state but
that, on the contrary. they are likely to gain
one or two districts. hrs say that in Cleve-
land and Toledo the situation is not salts
factory from I republican point of view
and that they may lose in the ninth and
twentieth districts and in the eighth On
the other hand. they have hopes of winning
the third and the twelfth. now held by the
democrats. The political tangle in Pennsyi-
vania opens up the possibility of some
! changes in congressional districts there
| The democrats are mdulging themselves in
/ the hope of a very substantial increase in
| their strength in that delegation. The in
| formation from republican sources is that
| the thirteenth. seventeenth and the twenty
| eighth now held by republicans, are liable
| to he carried by the democrats There is
nothing for the democrats in Rhode Island,
! nor for the republicans in South Carolina.
| The republicans are very confident of win
| ming the two South Dakota districts. No
| change is looked for in Tennessee. The
| democrats expect to defeat Hawley, the re-
| publican from the tenth Texas. and the re-
| publicans are making hot fight on Slay-