Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1905-01-20

OF RETURNING MACHINE NEN.
n The Washington correspondent G
II the Richmond News Leader says:
q The terms of thirty United State
q senators expire March 4. Aldrich " il
4 be e-elected in Rhode Island, of whicl
4 State he is in complete control; Bare
may be returned from California, al
though Henry Oxnard. the beet suga
king, has aspirations; Delaware is hav
ing fight now over the seat of SeDa
tor Ball, respectable sort of chap,
who has refused to worship at the
shrine of Addicks and who will not re
turn to the senate; Tennessee has ar
ranged to return Bate, who entered the
senate in 1887; Indiana will re elect
Beveridge and at the same time give
to Representative Hemenway the seat
of Senator Fairbanks. who assumes
the vice presidential chair March A.;
Senator Julius Caesar Burrows returns
to the senate from Michigan without
opposition; Minnesota has decided for
another term for Senator CIapp against
Governor Van Santt and Clark will
come back from Wyoming; Missouri
has turned over politically, and Sena
tor Cockrell (Democrat) will be sue
ceeded by a Republican.
From Texas Cnlberson will probably
succeed himself, and there will be no
opposition to the return of Senator
Daniel. of Virginia, who has now been
10 the senate eighteen years; Chauncey
Depew, by the aid of Tom Platt. beats
Oiell, and will get another six years
from New York, while Senator Dick
was elected as his own successor from
Ohio at the time be was given the short
term following the death of Senator
Hanna, Senator Dietrich is not. a can
didate to succeed himself from Ne
braska, having been involved in some
charges and Representative Elmer
Burkett will be elected by the legisla- !
ture.
Senator Foster, of Washington, is
having a hard fight for his place, his
chief opponent being former Senator |
John l.. Wilson; Gibson, Democrat, of |
Montana, gives way to Republican,
who will most likely he ex Senator |
Tom Carter; Hale, of Maine, will be be
own successor. while Hawley, of Con
necticut, is too old and feeble to come |
back to the senate and will give way
to q new man. John Kean, of New
Jersey, has his own place arranged for
during the next six years. and the
Pennsylvania legislature has elected
Pbilander Knox to remain wnere he
is af the successor of the late Matthew
Quay. Kearns. of Utah. must give
way to Republican who has the good |
will of the Norman church, thus CIV
ing Smoot q comrade in the senate.
Lodge will come back from Massa
without opposition; McCum-
Der has already been selected to sue
ceed himself from North Dakota;
Money was long ago reelected from
Mississippi; Scott gets his own place
from West Virginia; and Taliaferro
from Florida.
AS to Quarles, Of Wisconsin, the
LaFollette people have decreed his DO.
litical execution and some man suit
able to them with get the Office Sena-
tor Stewart retires as Senator from
Nevada by his own wishes and gives
place to Republican. McComas of
Maryland. will give way to Democrat.
H EAyY REPUBLICAN PREPONDER-
ANCE.
1t is notable that the senators of the
class which will take the oath of office
March 4 next will stand twenty-four
Republicans and six Democrats-prOl
vlded the Delaware legislature does not
get into its perennial deadlock, which
would make.twenty-three Republicans.
This is the greatest. party preponder-
ance that has occurred in many years.
The Democratic States Tennessee,
Texas, Virginia, Mississippi, Maryland |
and Floria. All the men of this class |
will, barring deaths and designations, |
remain in the senate until March A, 1911 |
which will be in the middle of the |
next presidential term.
If from this day forth the politica
tide should turn so that the Democrats
carried everything that was debatable
they could not secure control of the |
senate until this class of twenty four
Republican senator's was displaced.
The class that will go out two years
from now is much more evenly divided, |
standing fourteen Democrats to six.
teen Republicans. The Republicans
are not likely to lose a single one, |
while the Democrats stand to lose |
Clarke, of Montana +; Dubois, of Idaho, |
and Patterson, of Colorado, all of |
whose States have recently gone Re.
publican. The Democrats will have to
recover ground quickly to save these
seats. Much may happen in two
years, and the Democrats are hopeful |
THE NEW YORK SYSTEM.
The New York legislature has not
been greatly troubled about selecting
successor to Depew. Governor
Odell at first intended to do it for the |
legislature, naming Ex-Governor |
Black, but the friends of Depew raised |
such disturbance, headed by the
venerable Senator Platt, that Odell |
held some conferences and decided to
let Depew go back to the senate. He |
gave the word and the legislature
kindly fell ever itself to declare for De-
pew.
1t was peculiarly noticeable that |
few of them did so until Odell gave
them permission.