The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-07-28
PROSPECTS on THE NEXT
CONGRESS BEING
DEAOCRA TIC
New Orleans Picayune.

OENOCRA TIC.
New Orleans Picayune
The Republican leaders ut Wash
ington are seriously alarmed les, the
Democrats should carry the mex,
Congress.
THIS fear is based on the belief
that the gold Democrats will vote
with the regular Democrats in all
State and Congressional elections,
even # they should support Nc
Kinley on the National ticket.
Chairman Babcock, of the Re-
pub'ica" Congressional Committee,
is reported as saying on the subject:
The gold Democrats who stood with US in
1896 will vote for the Republican national
ticket this year. because they can't swallow
Bryan, and yet many of them will support
the Democratic candidates for Congress.
l have noticed indications that in many dis
tricts the differences of the Democrats,
healed with respect to the Congressional
ticket. and the Republican vote will suffer to
that extent. I find that situation to exist in
the East as we'll the West.
There is great deal of truth in
this. The solid Democratic delega-
tons sent to Congress from the
Southern States are tremendous
obstruction to the Republican party,
and this fact will drive rhe Repub-
licans at the next session of the
present Congress to do all in their
power to accomplish a reduction of
the Southern delegations, on the
basis of the numbers of negroes dis
franchised and dispossessed of the
elective franchise.
Action to that effect may be ex:
Pected of the present Congress at
its next session. Said Chairman
Babcock:
The South will send 100 Democratic Rep
resentatives to Congress from States that
will also give their electoral vote to the
Democratic candidates. That is big nu-
cleus. certain nucleus, which nothing can
prevent and around which the Democrats
have in the past gathered in their majorities
For our part, States which will give their
electoral votes to the Republicans will at the
same time have 40 per cent of the Congress
siOnal delegations Democratic lust look at
the Democratic representatives in this Cong
ress from New York, Pennsylvania. New
Jersey and other strongholds of Republican
ism on National issues. The election of Re-
publican electors from the State of New
York is not going topull through Republican
from the New York Civ dis
tricts.
In the far West will have to fight to
hold what we already have. In the North
west there are some districts which are too
close in their pluralities to be comfortable.
That will push us into New York, Pennsyl-
vaEia and Massachusetts, to make gains to
offset almost certain losses in some of the
middle West districts.
The fight will come to a point where every
vote will count. If the negro vote in North |
Carolina is disfranchised. we will never get
mother Republican representative from that
State, where we have often had two three. |
This goes to show that the Re
oublicans are truly alarmed. They
'ealize that in State and local affairs
he people are opposed to imperi-
llism and trustism. So far as the
general Government is concerned
he objection to centralism is not so
'reat. Mr.. Mckinley as president
you'd be deprived of all his dicta-
Orial power if he had Democratic
House to contend with.