Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-14
Wednesday, November IA, 1906.
New Republican Senators.

new republican 0CHdIoTSs
While the recent election resulted in
some gains for the Democrats in the
National House of Representatives.
they were exceedingly small in COM
parison with those usually scored by
them in off year elections. In the Unit
ed States Senate largely as a result of
the recent elections, the Republicans
will make a very substantial gain. AT
the present time all the seats in the
Senate chamber are filled. There are
90 senator's, of whom, at the present
time. 81 are Republicans and 80 Demo-
Gratis After March 4 next the Repub-
leans will have eight more majority
in the Senate than they have at the
present time. The Republicans will
gain a senator in Montana, Idaho. Colo
RADIO and Oregon. To partially offset
this the Democrats will have two sena-
tors from the newly established state Of
Oklahoma.
Senator Dubois, who was one Of the
boiling Republicans in the st. Louis
Republican convention which gave
President Mckinley his first nominal
ton, will soon retire to private life.
Dubois was the first lieutenant Of Hen
nv M. Teller in that dramatic episode
at st. Louis in which a little coterie OF
men, placing the interests Of the silver
mine owners in their own states above
the great principles for which the Re
publican party stood, and had stood
during all of its history, passed out OF
that great convention hall to enter the
Democratic party. Dubois now retires
for the second time to private life. and
this time there is very little doubt but
what his retirement will be permanent.
Henry NJ. Teller, profiting by election
frauds 50 notorious that a member of
the National House who was elected
by them refused to take his seat in that
body and still hangs on to the office
thus secured by the gills; but two years
from now, when he again comes up for
election, he will be permitted to follow
his former colleague Dubois into pri-
vatc life. His public career is one that
will earn him in the estimation of men
Of all parties a well-established reputa-
ton ASA political poser and demagogue
In the next Senate the Democratic
party will have but two members out
side Of the solid South, namely, Mr.
Ncwlands of Nevada, and Teller OF
Colorado. In addition to their Northern
senator's the Republicans will have two
senators from Delaware, two from
West Virginia and one from Missouri.
Never i'm its history has the Democratic
party had 50 small representation in
the United States Senate from the
States Of the Union outside of those
which formed the Southern confed-
cracy. In times past the swing of the
political pendulum has usually carried
!; few of tho Northern states in the off
Year elections, thus enabling the De
Inoctacy to secure quite a number ol
their senators. Apparently. this has be
come a thing of the past. Democratic
Representation in the Senate from thu
North has dwindled away almost to tbs
vanishing point. When the Democratic
party put itself in opposition to tht
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to tie growth and prosperity Of the
North. it babe farewell forever to all its
chances of permanent political success
in that section.