Show Democratic Majority in the Next House NEW YORK Nov 5The Post in the last edition says A number of congressional i districts aro in doubt two in California several in Iowa two in Kentucky two in New fork ote It seems safe to say however how-ever that the Democratic majority in the next House will not be less than eighty and it looks as if it will remain close to one hundred The Times says When the House meets in December 1891 Mr Reed if he is the candidate of his party for speaker will be defeated by a majority of at least seventy That is the response of the country to his insolent challenge to accept the House or Representatives which he thanked God was no longer a deliberative body It is the answer also of the country to the tariff policy of the Republican party put upon the statute just inftime to be voted on by tho people and to the force bill postponed post-poned until aftnr elections The Sun says At tho present writing there seems no doubt that there will be a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives Repre-sentatives of the Fiftysecond Congress too numerous for the enterprise of Speaker Reed and his counters to chpke out This majority does not proceed from under the rainbow which Brother Brice discerned in Ohio and there is no evidence yet that the free trade speeches of Mills in Minnesota Wisconsin and elsewhere are largely responsible re-sponsible for it The redemption or the House is the nations verdict upon the policy of outrage and fraud which has been one feature of Republican rule since Harrison Har-rison came in and in this respect the voice of the nation is in unison with that of New I a L Yorks triumphant Democracy on this glorious 4th of November The Triulc says hIt is to be remembered remem-bered that i the Republicans of the Senate 1 do their duty this is the last national elec j ton that will be held without the defense of the peoples rights which the election I law will give Had there been j03terday I a free vote and a fair count with no dis honest gerrymanders to defeat the popular will there is no room for doubt that the Republican principles would have been beyond all dispute I is a marvellous thing that the new tariff has been so far sustained by the people before its beneficial cial effects could be realized and while all of its real and imaginary burdens were most fresh in the minds of men In spite of a carefully cultivated scare about the rise of prices the people have show that they not only adhere to the principles of protection but heartily uphold Congress in its brave application of them The Herald says The McKinley bill has been tried in the balance of popular common sense and found wanting The World says In view of this ver dict any attempt to perpetuate the ascen dancy of the Republican party by the enactment en-actment of the force bill or of a partisan reapportionment based on a fraudulent census will be a desperate defiance of the expressed will of the people J The Times this morning claims that the two great parties will be represented in the Fiftysecond Congress as follows Democrats Demo-crats 201 Republicans 129 Democratic majority 71 The Tribunes figures are 167 Republicans and Democrats The Sun says tho next House will evi dently be Democratic by about35 majority The World says there will be fully 70 ma jority for the Democrats The Herald claims a majority of 40 |