New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-11
DISCREPANCIES IN THE TABLE.

II will be seen that by THE Posts hgures
the Republicans will have in the next House
16G seats in all probability, against 40 !or the
Democrats Popusts and Silver Repubhcans
combined with 43 districts remaining, IN wh'ch
the chances now seem more or less equaiiy
balanced careful critic will notice num-
her Of discrepancies. however, in the puohshed
table For instance. the total number OF votes
credited 10 the Republicans in the present House
foots ND only 205 according to the figures
given instead of DOG Moreover. Pennsylvania's
representation in the popular branch Is cut
down by two votes, and il these are added, as
they should be. to the Republican column, 1t
would be increased to 207. In the estimates for
the next House Pennsylvania is again deprived
Of two seats AMI Illinois Of one. II these
were given. they ought fairly to be- to the
Republicans the conceded Republican member
ship OF the next House would rise to 169-ony
10 short of clear majority. Eleven. not H.
should be the strength conceded to the Popu-
lists by the figures In the table. so that the
joint Democratic Populist Silver Republican
vote would stand at 145 instead Of 14S. AS 1t
is suggested IN the remarks accompanying the
estimate that the Republicans Will carry twenty
of the districts classed doubtful, the prob
able Republican majority over all other ele-
ments in the next House is therefore really
estimated at y, instead Of IL.
a careful reading Of the dispatches Zone from
each State on which the table is based. how
ever, justifies the criticism Of prominent Dem
ocrat who remarked that II too favorable
to the Republicans. He pointed out the fact
that. according 10 enough of the dispatches to
indicate a general condition, political apathy
prevailed throughout the country, and that
such a condition was always greater
drawback to the party in power than
TO the opposition. Ex-Congressman Kerr and
other officers and attaches OF Coin" Har-
vey's Congressional Committee. Of course
derided the estimate. and one of them declared
that If the existing conditions continued ten
days longer the opposition would sweep the
country four weeks from tomorrow and bury
the Republican party out Of sight
TINE FOR REPUBLICANS TO AROUSE.
Al the headquarters of the Republican Con-
gressional Committee the estimate dis
cussed with considerable interest. The officials
there would probably be glad to be assured that
present indications as favorable as the
estimate showed They know the existing state
of affairs in all its details as accurately as IL
could be ascertained by the most persistent in
Quiry among Wel-infOrmed political observers
in all parts of the country. well from a
vast amount Of information voluntarily COM
muncated to them. They are confident Of sue
cess II the Republicans can be aroused to
sense of the danger that threatens the country
and persuaded to exert themselves 10 prevent
il, but not otherwise.
ION that condition we can win" said Repre-
sentative Hull in conversation with a Tribune
correspondent to-day. He added that some in
dications OF Improvement were visible here and
there, and that the prospect appeared less dis
heartenng therefore. than ii did four weeks
ago. In several States however, the votes Of
which were necessary to success. such indi-
cations had yet been discovered. He re-
gardcd IL as certain that his own State would
send eleven Republican Representatives to the
next Congress. as she had done to the last and
present ones. whereas two or three weeks ago
he had greatly feared the loss of two If not three
districts. Mr. Hull who. with Chairman Bab-
cock and others was in conference with Republi-
can leaders In NeW-York several days last week
and returned TO Washington yesterday. ex-
pressed the utmost confidence in the success Of
the Republican State ticket Colonel Roosevelt
is as OF election he would be II he were
a candidate for Governor Of Iowa and his candi-
dacy Will help US in the close Congress districts"
said Mr. Hull with great earnestness.