Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-15
THAT NUMBER OF CONGREsSMEN
FAILED OF REELECTION.
MORE THAN HALF REPUBLICANS
REPUBLICANS HARDEST HIT IN NEW
YORK AND ILLINOIS.
As n Rule IL Was Men Who Had
Achieved Little Distinction Who
Were Retired. but There
Were Some Notable
Exceptions.

forty-threc members of the Fifty-iifth
congress will not be members of the Fifty
sixth. Of this number, twenty-siX are Re
publicans and only three are Democrats;
eleven are fusionists and three are Poi's.
The Republicans suffered the greatest
damage az regards the loss of old members
in New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois.
The fusion loss was most severe i'll Kan
sas. South Dakota and Washington. where
IL was practically extinSuiShed.
Anaiyzng the Republican losses. AID
rich is defeated in Alabama, but in all
probability this case will be appealed TO
the house, as Aijrich claims to be elected
on fair count He has been seated twice
on contest. The losses in Illinois are
Belknap in the Third. Mills In the Fourth.
White in the FIFTH, and Jett in the Eigh-
teenth, four In all. In Kentucky Walter
Evans in the Fifth and George NJ. Davi-
son in the Eighth are defeated. and in
Maryland ". W. McIntsre,y OF tho Fourth.
Baltimore, is the victim of local disaffec-
tion and the antagonism or rf1r- negroes.
In Massachusetts Walker, The present
chairman OF the Committee on banking and
currency. viii. not he returned and with
him falls Saniue!-J, Barrows in the Tenth.
The heaviest slaughter among old Re-
publican members is recorded IN New
York. where Belford is defeated in the
Il
in the Fourth, Bennett in the Fifth. J.
Murray Mitchell in the Eighth, Quigg in
the Fourteenth, Low In the Fifteenth.
Southwick in the Twentieth and Mahany
In the Thirty-seeond. Cochran is defeat
ed by about fourteen votes on the face of
the returns, but the soldier vote 1t Camp
Meade will probably reverse this into a
Republican victory. Mahany will contest
in the expectation that the 800 soldier
votes In Honolulu and Manila will over
come the GIG majority of his opponent
In North Carolina the Republicans lose
Richmond Pearson. the uncle of Lieuten-
ant Hobson, of Merrimac fame. for whom
he was named. In Pennsylvania five well
known Republicans bit the grass. In the
Eighth Kirkpatrick Is retired in tie
Twelfth Williams: in the Thirteenth
Brumm; in the Twenty-seventh Stone, and
in the Twenty-eighth Arnold.
In Virginia the Republicans lose Gen.
eral Walker. who carried the district
twice; but this case viii undoubtedly bc
appealed to congress General Walker
succeeded Stonewall Jackson in command
Of the famous Confederate brigade and
Is one of the historic characters in the
present house. Two other Republicans
from Virginia fell in the battle of ballots:
Wise in the Second and Thorp in the
Fourth. These are all of the Republicans
who failed of reelection.
In California the fusionists who were
retired are Barlow and Castle. of the Sixth
and Seventh districts. In Kansas. Bot
kin, at large, was defeated. as also Pet
ers. Vincent and Jerry Simpson-four-be-
sides Mccormick, straight-out PopuIist.
In Michigan the Republicans retired
Brucker. fusionist: in South Dakota, both
fusionists. Knowles and Kelly, and in
Washington the most picturesque of all
statesmen, James Hamilton Lewis, to-
gether with his associate. Jones, were
knocked out.
The Democrats who were retired from
congressional life were Handy from Della
ware, Jett in Illinois and Todd in the
Third Michigan district.
Populism, independent Of fusion, sus-
tanned its losses in the retirement OF Nc
Cormick in Kansas, and Skinner and
Fowler in North Carolina.
With few exceptions, the retired MEM
bers obtained very little distinction in
congress and their loss will not be serious
ly felt. The exceptions are notably Walk
er OF Massachusetts, Bennett of New
fork-who is a fine lawyer and is said
10 be engaged TO the daughter Of Speak
or Reed-Evans of Kentucky, and c. w.
Stone of Pennsylvania. The loss is far
more in the direction of the picturesque
th'aIiN'ii tiiiu sOllu Handy, of
Delaware. though serving his first term,
proved himself a marplot with no COM
pensatory traits TO offset his yexatious
ones. Jerry Simpson has never been re-
garded as other than a political harIe-
duin, while Lewis has excited the risibii-
ity of the world by his congressional an
tics. No man in public life is more fairly
entitled 70 wear the motley and FOOLS
cap. He eclipses Jerry Simpson only in
The degree of education which both euiov.
Simpson is self-made man, while his
rival Is coiIeSe-bred, whose esotism how
ever, is wholly natural. In most respects
the two men belong in the same cate
CORY.
While II may be said that the Republic
ans paid dearly for it, they have practical
ly Killed fusion, silver and Populism at
one stroke, and the Fifty-sixth congress
for the first time in many years. will
show clear majority for the party In
power without entailirg the need of com
promising or compromising with factions
that float into congress on the occasional
tide OF political undercurrents