The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-29
A Rainbow OF Rainbow.

In thirty States Legislatures upon
which will devolve the duty Of filing
irnpending vacancies in the United
ssates Senate will be elected on Novem-
Der 3. OF the thirty Senators whose
terms will expire on March 2. 1911.
twenty-four are Republicans and six are
DemsSTuts The Democrats represent
Scuthern States with the exception If
Mr.. RAYNER oi Maryland, who IL reason
ably sure 81 beinS returned to Washing
ton; 90 that II there - TO he any change
In TIE strength Of parties in the senate
4 must occur because Republicans fail
Of reelection or are not succeeded 10y
Republicans
In the present senate there are fifty
eight Republicans and thirty-four Demo-
crats. A Republican loss of thirteen
Senators would give the Democratic
party a ma jority ~ two. Therefore That
the Republican total If fifty-eight will
be reduced u Indicated by the fact that
three of the Republican senators whose
terms end on March como from States
which had Democratic Legislatures in
1919. Moreover. two other Senator'S
represent States IN which the last Leyis-
larure was Republican BY maIoritlcs Of
only two and four.
A Republican senator. whose name
hAs not been disclosed. il said - have
made the following list of hrs party col
leagues vino are m moro or less danger
Of losing their seats by the election of
4 l.. Z
KNIT Of Nebraska. JULIUs e. ByRRows
ofaiichiEan. THOMAS II. CAETER NJ Mon
tana. CLARENCE n GLARK of Wyoming.
CHAUNcEY VI DEPEw II New York.
cHAHiFs DICH NJ Ohio. joys KHAN
81 New Jersey HENRY A DU POST If
Delaware. GEORGE y. NIxON of Nevada.
PoRTER J. MCCUMBER of North Dakota.
NATHAN y SCoTr If IVES, Virginia and
WILLIAM WARNER If Missouri The list
has made ths round Of the senate cham
Der. and II il suggested nv Democratic
partisans WIN in their dreams hear re-
vrberations ~ a landslide and so arch
ing over II a rainbow cleaning with all
the colors Of the spectrum thar the Hon.
ALBERT J. BEvERID6E ~ Indiana should
not have been omitted from tho COM
pany. Speculation might also include.
n an easy rein il given tn tho magma
tton, the names 81 two other insurgents.
Mr.. La TOILETTE Of Wisconsin and Mr..
cLAFP Of Minnesota.
Our impression ~ that the obliRinG
Republican calculator was anA'Iaink hinl-
eelf at the expense 81 the minority.
which two successes in extra elections
ana a. many coming retirements have
fired with hysterical enthusiasm and
deprived OF the power of patient analy-
siM Taking the list 81 the Republican
Senator. IL will be found that his party
weB % strong in tho Legislatures Of 1000
In Ill but FIVE Of the States upon il that
his party need have no concern about
ths loes Of ifs majority in the Senate
Of the Sixty-Second Congress. The FIVE
Btsfes in whichapprehension may arise
are: Nebraska. Democratic majority
~; Nevada, Democratic majority Is:
. 10bsouri. Democratic majority 3: Mon
tnna, Republican majority ?; and Dela-
wwe uSOS, Republican majority =.
Indiana, not on his list. il also fighting
ground, for the Democrats had a ma
joEity Of IL in the Legislature Of 1904.
When we come TO the other States
named by him wherea Democrat might
. be elected 10 the Senate there were these
Republican majorities on joint ballot in
the Legislature last year: Michigan. I2s
Wyoming. 50: New York. rs Ohio. n
New Jersey. 80; North Dakota. II5.
and West Virginia. S. In Wisconsin
and Minnesota, the insurRent strong
holds represented bv Mr. Ia TOILETTE
and Mr. CLAPP. the Republican major
tiles on joint ballot were " and ~ TO-
spectively The utmost re~iliency IT
hope in a Democrs'i" mind cannot con-
vert tho minority INTO n majority upon
contemplating those figures. II j.
long and weary time for Democrat
since any one n those Republican
States ~~ri y D~mocrai 20 tho United
States Senate. and u would require a
revolution ~ bring a majority IT them
into line for the parry.