| Show j SEE A SHADOW Anaconda Standard It is i announced that certain Republicans in the house will urge again the political necessity of oi cutting dawn Ute tim representation in ill that body Olmstead of Pennsylvania P ia and Crumpacker of Indiana the men mell behind the bills in the Fiftysix F congress are openly advocating new and drastic measures and they are arc as ae assured mired so iC they ey t say of enough ellou h votes to force the bill I through the house home houseS I S It will be remembered that when this matter wast was brought up by Crumpacker it met the effective opposition opposition opposition t tion of the administration President McKinley was possessed of the tho idea that with the disappearance of the theold theold theold old sectionalism m with the healing of the wounds left loft by bythe bythe bythe the civil war the solid Democratic south would disintegrate grate mate and that a strong str Republican party would be created en OR the sunny side of the Mason Iason and Db Dixon On line lino The passage of a bill biU cutting down the representation of the south would have made such a consummation of hopes impossible and consequently time tIle in influence fluence of the te administration was wu thrown against the measure But conditions have hae changed It is seen that years of patient effort will win be necessary before a strong re bIe wing of the Republican party can be con constructed in the south to take the place of the old Whigs the tite te other hand band there is a surprising unanimity of Republican fear and even prediction that th t the next congress e ss will have a Democratic majority in tho the house hoUfe due to the growing Dg demand throughout the country for fora forare a are revision of oJ the tariff in the interests of freer trade This Thia fear is given g substance by tho the evident disinclination tion of the present pre ent Republican congress congre s to listen to the demand Under the shadow of coming defeat it is argued the die Republicans will win be quick to grasp at the tho chance to reduce as far as possible pos ble Democratic representation from the south The advocates of the measure say they are aro as na assured eared of orE the tiie neutrality of the administration if not of its cordial Ordial support This time their efforts will not be bo blocked from the White House Hou The TIle cry of threatened Republican supremacy is considered sufficient to over overcome come OO all northern opposition and and Crum Crumpacker peer packer ker are arc confident Idi nt that tIle they will be able to present pros t i ng picture of the suppression of the tho tote ote in the tile south that the Republican OUI of e house home e will be forced to make the bill a party measure That they will be equally successful in tho the senate is another question Opponents of the Nicaragua canal and of the ship subsidy measure will welcome the tho bill billas as an opportunity to play it off against those measures and aM as a chance for a II long bitter and partisan debate in which the obnoxious bills billt may be lost It goes If without saving Caving that should the Republican be carried out the ambitions of McLaurin and his hi ilk the bold schem for a vigorous Republican party in iu the south jOt t are reduced to the proportions of an iridescent political dream dreamS S |
