The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-01-05
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THURSDAY. JANUARY 5. 1899.
OUR COUNTRY: First, Last and Forever


The next Congress begins March 4
and in this convention the st. Louis
Democrat directs attention to the
fact that not one straight Democrat
from the Northern states will be
member of the Senate.
Thirty Senators end their period OF
service on that date, and in filling the
seats the Democrats of the North
will be entirely unrepresented. 1t is
truly an extraordinary fact in Ameri-
can politics.
The Senators from Utah and Mon
tana will be elected by fusion Legis-
latures and are as much Populist as
Democratic A close estimate of the
next Senate is tifty-four Republicans,
twenty-six Democrats and ten Popu-
lists and Silverites, a Republican
majority over all of eighteen. The
twenty-six Democratic Senators are
from the South but that section is no
longer solid. 1t sends ten Republi-
cans to the next Senate. In five
years the Republicans have gained
eighteen seats in the Senate. They
have been strengthened most in the
branch where stability is the greatest,
matter of unusual political signifi-
cance
The Democrats in the next Senate
will number less than one-third of
the whole body, while the Republi-
cans will lack but six votes of two
thirds A remarkable change has oc-
CURED in the Senate, but it has been
spread over several years and its full
Importance has hardly been realized.
There is still, in technical sense,
Democratic party in the North. 1t
claims the name and is in possession
of the machinery. But the Demo-
cratic party as it was has passed
away. The situation in the next
Senate proves it. German, of Mary
land, is among the missing. Murphy
of New York, Smith of New Jersey,
Gray of Delaware, Mitchell of Wis
consin, White of California, Turple
Of Indiana and Faulkner of West
Virginia are in his company. There
are Republican gains over the POpu-
lists in the transmississippi region.
The passing of the Democratic party
occurred there some time ago. All
that remains of it is a minor element
available for nothing except fusion
combinations.
Here is the remnant of the fusion
Democracy and Populism in the
next Senate One member from
Colorado, one from Idaho, one from
Kansas, one from Montana, two from
Nevada, two from South Dakota, two
from Utah and one from Washington.
To this total of eleven Senators, of
sscn shades of opinion, is the opposi-
ton reduced in the North. As far as
the Senate is concerned, the Northern
Democrats are virtually extinguished.
So much for the Chicago platform
experiment.
Looking over the whole field, there
is no encouragement whatever for
another debased money campaign.
The Senate blocks the way for long
period Even if the tide could set in
that direction during the next two
years, the Fifty-sixth Congress will
be in full accord with the President
and will put up the legislative bar,
against every form of tampering with
the 100c dollar
Mr. Bryan's friends NAV insist on
his denomination, but they can not
restore the conditions of 1896. TheiI
opportunities for mischief in 1900 viii
be infinitely less than in the first
battle" Then they had the Senate
which will now be against them
Sound money legislation was then
impossible For the next two years
it will be easy.
The fusiouists two years ago had q
program which they could have en-
forced the moment they came into
power. All that is changed Then
chance to upset the currency Of the
country has petered out