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Show 1 A CORRECT DIAGNOSIS. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat concedes con-cedes that the party which wins the presidency in 1S92 will secure absolute s and undivided control of both houses of congress. "If the Democrats carry the country," that paper observes, "they will gain a sufficient number of legislatures to give them the senate." In the Fifty-second congress the Republicans Re-publicans will have a majority of from four to six In the senate. The exact number can only be known with the action of the legislatures of Illinois, Illi-nois, Kansas and South Dakota. 1 There is no possible chance for the Republicans to remain in power.unleis they hold the presidency 'and regain the bouse in 1892. ".no reasonable Republican," says the Globr-Democrat, "imagines if the party is beaten on the presidential ticket in 1892 that it can save anything out of the wreck." This seems to be a correct diagnosis. The year 1S92 ought-to witness the complete wiping out of the Republican I party. |