The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-03

SASI u january, 1893, STOCKS jumped
SO as to cause an advance of s4os. 1oo.-
600. By this huge advance the already
multi-millionaires made great fortunes
In addition to their vast accommodations.
Seven men secured $50, 900, 800, 900 be-
tween them. They were as follows:
William K. Vanderbilt ...... 20, 900, 900
Cornelius Vanderbilt ........ 20, 600. 900
William Rockefeller .......... IL, 000, 900
russell sage .......s........ 1u,VVU, 900
george could .-.-....-....-- 10000. 900
H. H. Rogers ............. 10, 000, 900
We find that the repeated state
ment as given above is incorrect. AL
ready five democratic Senator's have
been elected from the north. There
are nineteen democrats who hold over.
So there will be twenty-seven, in all.
The republicans will have ffty-four,
the populists four, silver republicans
2, silverites 2. and one Independent.
The Philadelphia Record says there
will not be one democratic senator
from either the New England or the
Middle states or the great states of
the middle west-not one senator from
| uOFlu . the TOlOLndC. MOI IOT twenty
five years have the democrats been so
largely in the minority in the senate
as they will be in the Fifty-sixth con-
gress. Never before have the states
north Of the Potomac river, not even in
the war time, been solidly republican"
The money power has the country by
the throat. 1t controls everything. It
controls legislatures. Openly in the
north legislatures are bought. Look
at Pennsylvania now. Look at Cali
fornia. General Grants son, named af-
ter him, is a candidate for the United
States senate. The Philadelphia Rec
ord, a gold organ, says:
The special committee of the Cali
fornia legislature appointed to inves-
tigate the scandals connected with
the contest for United States Senator
has reported that Howard Wright
speaker of the assembly, received from
U. S. Grant, Jr., through his political
manager, $500 as a gift and $3.50 as a
loan. and that Grants manager like
wise expended large sums Exceeding
in the aggregate $40, O00) to secure the
election of a republican ~legislature."
These are samples only. Other states
have often done the same thing. Buy.
ing legislatures in the north has beer
a regular business for quite a quarter
of a century. Is it not about time tc
change the method and elect senators
by a direct vote of the people?
The charge is made by a senator that
the man elected senator from Montana
was elected by votes bought for him
This is the way it is done out there by
a Legislature. Money purchased the
members like so many bulls or oxen
per head. Will the United States sen
ate give a seat to the successful buy
err? The able Houston (Texas) Post
noting this scandalous matter in the
Montana legislature, is moved to say
this:
eff the national senate would deny
the Montana senator a eat in the body
it would be taking a long step toward
relieving itself of the Odium that has
attached to it for man. years past or
account of the we'll known fact that q
considerable portion of it's membership
is composed Of men who have obtain
ed their elections in a similar way
1t gets worse and worse every year
If Quay gets Jack it will he by the Sc
ductive power Of money. Let senators
be elected henceforth by the people.