The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-10

the Chicago platform as Democracy.
And the two Democratic senators
Uhere should have been three if the
Democratic majority in the Utah legis-
laturc Just adjourned had made an
election) are from states in the Rocky
mountains or observation-disclosures and
Utah--states which did not exist when
the Kansas Nebraska bill was passed,
when the war between the states was
fought or even when the post-bellum
Democracy won its first presidential
victory in 1854. Just one Of the new
senators elect in the whole North is n
Democrat"
Carrying the comparison down TO
later date the same writer notes that
in the Thirty ninth congress. elected in
1864, there were from the states north
Of Della ware, Maryland and Kentucky
eight Democratic senators-one each
from New Jersey, Connecticut, Penn
sylvaniu. Indiana, Wisconsin, Minneso-
Ia, California and Oregon---and even in
the Forty-first congress. elected in 1868.
there were four--one each from New
Jersey Ohio, Minnesota and California
As already pointed out, the sixteen
tSortherr states that voted in congress
on the Kansas Nebraska bill will not
have a Democratic representative in
the senate of the Fifty-sixth congress.
How many will those twenty Northern
states have which voted on the thir-
| tecnth. fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments? Not one. How many will the
border states, Delaware, Maryland,
| West Virginia, Kentucky and Mlssou-
| ri--cOnsistently Democratic for almost
| two decades after reconstruction
| have? Four of the ten.
But this is not all of the story. The
| Globe Democrat man directs attention
| TO the fact that there was never Il time
! during the war of the rebellion when
| there was not a Democratic governor
| in the North. In the early part of 1868,
when the fortunes of the party in this
respect were at their worst Joel Parker
was governor of New Jersey. Horatio
Seymour had just retired from the gov
ernorship of New York In 1869, not
| only New York and New Jersey, but
Connecticut and California Of the
strictly Northern states, and Delaware
| Maryland and Kentucky of the South
ern states, which did not secede from
the union, had Democratic governors
How do the state governments stand
now? There are populist governors
elected partly by Democratic votes as
far east as Nebraska and South Dako'
ia; but Of Democratic governors in al
| the twenty-nine Northern states there
arc just two, and these are in the
Rocky Mountain country-Colorado anC
| Idaho; and they doubtless owe theiI
election as much to the Populists as tc
| Democrats. From Maine to the Miss
| issippi river, and on from the Mssiss
| ippi river to Colorado, and from Can
ada to the southern boundaries o.
Maryland, West Virginia and Kentucky
the Democratic pilgrim comes nowhere
under jurisdiction of a Democratic gov
ernor. In all the twenty Northern
states of the war time. with those o.
the border states added, there is not OH,
Democratic governor.
While Bryan, Belmont, German anC
Croker are quarreling dramatically fo
Tie front place in The disputed part,
leadership, no wonder that our bluff
and frank friend. Colonel Watterson
drvotes his time and talents to figur
ing cut What the Democracy Mus
DO to Pc Saved"