The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-08-27
HOW WE ARE WINNING THE
SENATE.

Four years ago the idea of the dem
ocrats controlling the United States
senate seemed too preposterous to
consider. When the regular session
of congress convenes in December,
the democrats will have within five
votes Of the republican strength in
that body. The changes that have
come about in the membership of the
senate have been almost invariably
favorable to the democrats, and there
has been a steady gain in the strength
of the party in the upper house that
the most sanguine could scarcely have
hoped for a few years ago. 1t seems
almost certain that the next general
election will give the democrats con-
troll of the senate, as well as of the
house, and, as the presidency is a
prize that seems fairly within the
grasp of the democrats, the early COM
mission of the whole government of
the country 10 the hands of the party
which has been broken and scattered
for so long is an imminent as we'll
as cheering prospect.
The death of Senator Frye of Maine,
assures another democratic member
of the senate in place of a republic
can, and, one of the most rock ribbed
of republican states will be represent
ed in the upper house by two senator's
a condition, which we believe, has
not prevailed before in the history of
the government. This is an abnormal
condition to be sure, but no more
so than has been the representation
by republicans in the senate of Mary
land and Missouri and Kentucky, or
even Indiana and New Jersey, almost
unbrokenly for the past ten or fif-
teen years. These states are normal
ly democratic, or, at least, they used
to be, in the heyday of democracy,
and the holding OF their seats in the
senate by republicans is as much of a
departure from political form as is
the democratic holding of the two
seats to which Maine is entitled in
the senate. Doubtless the republicans
will recapture that stronghold, or a
part OF it, in the natural order of
events, but the democrats are assured
of its representation in the senate at
least, until they recover some of the
other ground that has been lost to
them so long.
There seems to be some doubt as to
the political complexion of Arizona
and New Mexico, but they are likely,
at the worst to split even between
the parties in their choice of sena-
tors. Colorado has a vacant seat
which will be filled, as soon as the
deadlock "A The caucus is broken. by a
democrat. New Jersey viii probably
hold its democratic disposition
through the next election, and, doubt
less, will strengthen it, sending an
other democratic senator-and, let us
hope, a better one-to Washington.
There is no good reason why New
York should relapse to republicanism
and Senator Root should, at the end
of this term, be replaced by demo-
crat. Kentucky will certainly send a
democrat to take the place of the re-
publican Bradley, as soon as the state
rights itself politically, which it is
bound to do before very long, and Mis-
souri, has republican in the senate
who should be succeeded by a demo-
crat
Mr.. Taft will likely have further use
for that veto stamp he put on tariff
revision measures at the extraordinary
session. and every time he uses it in
such work he helps along the demo-
cratic cause. With a house of rep
resentatives wholly under the domin-
alton of the democrats and a senate
almost controlled by them, the "titular
head of the republican party" will not
have such sweet time at the white
house for the eighteen months that
still remain of the term to which he
was elected by such tremendous ma.
jority.