New-York tribune., 1900-08-24
NOTES OF THE CAMPAIGN.

GRosYENoR REVIsEs HIS FIGUREs-Gen-
eral Grosvenor signalizes his return from Europe
by revising his election figures, Before he went
abroad he put the Republican majority in Mary
land at 10000. Now that Senator Wellington has
come out for Bryan, ne puts the figure at 1898.
AGAINST BOssIsM-Georgia has the primary
plan for selecting candidates for the various
Offices. Referring TO the fact, The Atlanta Con-
etitution" says:
Thus far the plan works well. Everybody is
satisfied. because Of the knowledge that the pri-
mary represents the will OF the voters. There is
Of boseisa IN fbis wsT Tbe cost OF tbe nominal at
ing primary does not fall on the State, but comes
their friends
The Constitution" adds:
We commend the Georgia plan to those who
seeking cheap and easy method Of securing party
harmony and unity in the matter of nominations.
NOVEL VIEW OF SUFFRAGE RESTRICTION
SO far suffrage amendment is concerned"
says The Philadelphia Record" "the conditions
IN ALABAMA are considerably different from those
in North Carolina. The proportion OF illiterate
whites in Alabama is so small in comparison with
the total population that there is no need to make
8 discrimination in their favor in order 10 save
me suffrage amendment from defeat. In North
Carolina very large proportion of the illiterate
part Of the STATE but Il des not foio% m owe taf be
cause they eannot read they have not fair knowl-
them by the lterate members of the family. Unjust
as il is IN its discrimination the suffrage amend
ment in North Carolina is largely in favor of white
Republicans"
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
rev census will a fresh discussion of the
proper nnmber of members for the United States
House Of Representatives Either the membership
must be increased or the number of inhabitants
who form the constituency Of a Representative
must be increased. There are now in a full House
30 members each representing average of $4,000
census at rs m 600 the saySa basIs ~ ~ yrarresante
ton would make House Of about $50 members.
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY.-In The Cou-
rier-Journal" Henry Watterson asks. Can Such
Things Be-" the things" referred to by him as
possible being described as follows
II che persons calling themselves Republicans
crats-to say nothing about the nondeseripts who
pretend 70 be non-partisans- possessed moiety Of
me virtue they claim for themselves and deny to
81 others there ould not be the least trouble
or delay in attaining perfectly just election law;
because the extreme inlplacable and impractical
Democrats. who consider, affect 10 consider, 1t
iaR as is are not sfcienty % numerous @ @ to make
Z seIIgeS @ obstruction against an h9nest union OF
agers OF the coalition Of Republican ana Brown
hoised the ensign Of what they describe as civil
liberty, - refuse all concession and compromise
puhicans, They will be satisfied with nothing less
issue of aciv liberty" evolved out of their neces-
sides. They had rather be beaten the face Of
than have their objections cured before the elee-
fiGn take their chances IN the election with a
law even of their own procuring. And for the
very plain but dishonest reason. that in they
they have the Republican Congress behind them
throw out the votc of Kentucky from the Electoral
College. to deny admission 10 kentuckys Demo-
cratic members In Congress, and in Of Me-
tuclCy such q Federal oVeFhaulIng will Ulti-
mately recognize their defeated candidates for
Office
SLENDER HOPE FOR DENocRATs-The next
Senate Of Illinois will be made up In part OF twenty
six Senators who hold over. OF these seventeen
sre Republicans and nine are Democrats. Twenty
five Senators are 10 he elected in November, and
Of these the Democrats must have a large ma
jority II they 10 divide the Senate evenly with
the Republicans. IN 1872 when Illinois went
whelmingly Democratic, those districts that viii
elect Senators next November elected fifteen Dem
ocrats and ten Republicans If the Democrats
obtain the same results this year that
they secured in 1892 the next Senate would stand
twenty Republicans to twenty-four Demo-
Gratis, It would seem from this that the prospect
IS hattering. If the Republicans lose control
of the joint assembly IL y III be because the Dem
ocrsts elect so large a majority of the House Of
Representatives that it VIII more than counter
balance the majority of the Republicans in the
IN the House that year the Democrats had sew
enty-eight members and the Republicans seventy
nVe. If the result is brought about by the
November election the joint assembly will be
made up follows:
Republi- Demo