Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-13
GAIN Of SIX SENATORS
United States Senate Will Have
Republican Majority Of About
Twenty.
Opposition Includes Only the Solid
South and q Few Scatter.
ing Ones.
Dewey Congratulates Himself Over
the Fact That He Wasn't
on Ticket.

Washington, Nov 13.-With doubt as
to the result of the legislative contests
Tuesday in not more than two OF the for
ty-five states, the next senate will have
a republican ma jority of twenty in a to-
tai membership of ninety. This will be
a majority of twenty over slSerites,
democrats. populi,ts and renegade re-
publicans; an increase of six over the
republican lead in the last senate. Sub
stantially 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
have solid!S re publican delegations. AT
no time in the past was this dearth of
northern Democratic representation 80
decidedly marked.
Ins1S6S, atSthe time of the first election
|ofa Gen. Grant. the senate of the fortieth
congress had democratic senators from
Indiana, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
and also from Maryland, Tennessee, Del-
aware and Kentucky. In the forty
third congress. after the disa strous Over
throw Of the democrats III the Greeley
canpaiga, the senate over which Henry
Wilson, of Massachusetts. presided, had
Democratic Representatives from Ohio,
Oregon. California and New Jersey, and
ALSO from kentucky, Maryland and Del
aware.
In July, 1886. when Bryan was first put
in nomination fer president at Chicago.
the senate, despite a succession of demo-
cratic re-versss. still had democratic
senators from Indiana, Illinois, New
York, New jersey, Wisconsin and Cali
5farnia, all states not OF the southern
group. The defeat Of Bryan four years
ago entailed unavoila ably democratic
losses in the senatorial representation
from the east. but these losses We're in.
part made up by democratic uccesaiofs
from the Pacific, in the prairie states
and In the northwest. Kansas, r. placed
New Jersey Ths gain in Washington
offset the loss III Maryland. Democratic
sanitation was indeed Diminished,
but some Of the losses in the east We're
repaired in the territory between TIE
Mississippi ard the Pacific ard the
southern represen tation of democrats IN
Washington remained intact The re-
#sults of Tuesdays contests. crushing in
their proof of popular distrust and RS
pudiation of BrsaMisn. make ,,erria-
nent, for some years at least th, exclu-
sion of the democrats from representa-
3tion In the senate from the eastern.
western. middle western and north
West erna sections of the union. by which
Two thirds of the popular vote Is cast
he ninety senators are divided into
ISthree grRupssof5 thirty each ttlosae rose
terms expire March S. 1901, those whose
terms expire in 1903. and those whose
terms eX i1irs in 1906. There are no va
scanciss, except Temporary ones. arising
in 1902. The results of Tuesday /, els.c-
items are to leave the greater part @ the
country. in population. material wealth
political Importance and Industrial.
gepresen tativegirl the ssnate. Not one Of
Twelve senators from New England va s
a democrat in the last senate: not. one
will lin the next. New York, Pennayi-
vania, New Jersey ard Delaa are the
Atlantic seaboara group, VIII have ight
republican senators. The senatorial del-
egations from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota
/ Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan VIII
be solidly republican. On the whole
pacific coast there Will be but one soli-
tary populist survivor of sRryanism flu
sion (his5 term expires in 1909 and there
remains to the Democratic party in the.
senate only its representation from tn /.
former confederate states and a handful
/ of men! berg from those mining constitu
Iencies of which Colorado and Montana
are the chief.
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