The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-15
POLITIC.IL NOTES.

South Dakota has preserved the distinction 10
gained in lsS6 of being tho closest State politically
in the country. In that year II carried by Bryan
by plurality OF only 1873 votes At last years eleo.
ton South Dakota was again the closest of all tho
States 1t was carried by the fusion candidate for
Governor by $40 votes The total vote Il South Da.
koa 90. 600 in 1885, and 1t il likely to lie in
cess OF 100000 at next years general election.
There the customary factional disturbances in
tho Republican organization in Kings county which
have cost the Republican candidates so many votes
in the past. but an aid to harmony is to be adopted
this year in a turn to the Assembly district and
the abandonment of the election district system
which imported to brooklyn from Philadelphia
six years ago from which great results were eK.
pected II was afterward adopted in New York buu
has been abandoned here as cumbersome aud i'm
practicable. and the Assembly district system with
one recognized leader in each Assembly district has
been substituted.
An Eastern section has been organized of tho
American branch OF the Dutch Alliance, the pur.
poses OF which are to promote friendship between
the United States and the Netherlands and tho
founding Of clubs for the study of the Dutch Ian.
literature. history and law. There is to be. IL
is expected. the appointment of professor In these
branches at one or more of the American univer-
sites Former Supreme Court Justice Augustine
Van Wyck was elected President Of the Alliance at
the recent meeting in Brooklyn
In shoshone county. Idaho the Populists at last
years election pulled moro votes than the Dome
Gratis. Repu blicaus and Silver Republicans COM
bined. ShOshone county is bounded on the east ly
the Bitter Root Mountains and on the west by Indisu
reservations chiefly. 1t is Of the few remaining
Popuhst strongholds in the country.
The State Of Missouri has fifteen representatives
in Congress of whom twelve in the Fify.zirth Con-
gress Dem crats the sanle number A. IN thu
Fifty NTH The Republicans arc from st. Louis
are ll5 counties in Missouri. some OF which were
settled by New England emigrants. aud many Of
them ordinarily give Republican ma jortttes but
notwithstanding this the Congressional rcprcscnta-
ton from Missouri, outside of the city of st. Louis
continues TO he SOlidly Democratic. It IL in the
Senate As II is in the House. Tho Senators are from
other counties than ct. Louis. and they have been
Democrats for many years. Senator Cpckrell has
been Office since Is7E. aud his colleague Senator
Y,st since 1879
At many recent Republican National Conventions
the project of narmunilug the representation with
the Republican vote cast has been considered hut
heretofore nothing has been done about it, In MANY
of the southern States, under political conditions
for which the Republican party il not rcsponsihls
which II has done much TO oppose, there is but
insig ntiCant RepubliCRn vote cast and vet the
representation OF such States in Republican CON.
TentOuS If precisely the Fame n In Democratic Ma
upnal Conventions. for the nominees of which the
electoral Of such States "a cast At State con-
ysntons generally delegates Appor;ioned in ac-
cordance with the vote cast tho general election
preceding Int I'll" extension OF this plan to national
conventions of tho Republican PARTY has thus far
been resisted successfully.