The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-12
GAIN SIX SENATORS.
Republicans to Have Majority of 20
In Upper House.

washington, Nov. 12-With doubt as
to the result of the legislative contests
on Tuesday in not more than two OF the
forty-five states, the next Senate will
have a Republican majority of twenty
in total membership of ninety. This
will be majority of twenty over Sill
verites, Democrats, Populists and rene
gade Republicans; an increase of six
over the Republican lead in the last SEN
ate. Substantially all the Democrats
will be here from the southern states
and from the gradually diminishing
groups of mining states. The whole
east middle west and northwest and
most of the border states nave sondly
Republican delegations. At no time in
the past was this dearth of northern
representation so clearly marked.
In 1868, at the time of the first cleo
ton of General Grant, the senate or
the Fortieth congress had DEMOCRATIC
senators from Indiana, Wisconsin ana
PENNSYLVANIA and also from Maryland,
Tennessee, Delaware and Kentucky. In
the Forty-third congress after the dis
astrous overthrow of the Democrats IN
the Greeley campaign, the senate over
which Henry Wilson of Massachusetts
presided had Democratic representa-
tives from Ohio, Oregon, California and
New Jersey, and also from Kentucky,
Maryland and Delaware.
In July, 1896, when Bryan was first
put in nomination for president at chi
Democratic reverses. still had Demo-
cratic senators from Indiana, Illinois,
New York New Jersey, Wisconsin and
California, all states not of the south
ern group. The defeat of Bryan foul
years ago entailed unavoidably Demo-
cratic losses in the senatorial represen-
tation from the east but these losses
were in no part made up by Democratic
accessions from the Pacific, in the
prairie states and in the northwest
kansas replaced New Jersey. The gam
c1af fhn in
land.
minished but some OF ne toSSgf he
tween the Mississippi and the Pacific, and
the southern representation OF Den n1, g .
in Washington remained intact Inc re
suits of Tuesdays contests, cruSnlng IN
their proof of popular distrust and rePu-
diation CT Organism, make permanent' LOT
some years at least. the exclusion OF the
Democrats from representation in the sen
ate from the eastern, western mldole
western and northwestern section of the
Union, by which tWo-thirds of the popular
The ninety senators are divided into
three groups of thirty each-those whose
terms expire March 8, 1901, those whose
terms expire in 1903 and those whose
terms expire In 1905. There are no yacan>
cies except temporary ones, arising in
1aS2 The results of Tuesdays elections
are to leave the greater part or the coun-
fTv. in popula ton, material wealth, poll i
cal Importance and Industrial growth
without a solitary Democratic representa-
tive in the senate. Not one OF the Twelve
GRAFT in the last senate; not one will be in
the next. New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Delaware, the Atlantic sea-
board group, will have eight Republican
senators. The senat rial delegations from
Ohio Indiana, Illinois. Iowa. North Da-
kota South Dakota, Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin and Michigan will be soldly Republ1-
can On the whole Pacific coast there
will be but one solitary Populist survivor
of Bryanism fusion (his term expires IN
1eO3) and there remains to the Dem crat tic
party in the senate only its representation
from the former confederate states and
a handful of members from those mining
constituencies of which Colorado and
Montana are the chief.