| Show VACANT AiOAs1tip + Need of Change In the Method ot Election 4 FILLING OF ACANCI S SENTIMENT FAVORS SEATI GvRNORS APOmTES + Leading Member of the Senate Convinced Con-vinced Tat the Exclusion of Such Appoitees I Wrongen ate Opposes Election By the Pee pleNext Presidential Ticket 1 Special CorEspondence Washington D C March 1Thus fnr tIe next senate has two vacancies that are certain to last until the legisla unt tures of the states creating them hay met and succeeded In performing the duty for which the people selected them I is an even thing politically for the Democrats Dem-ocrats lose by reason of the Utah vacancy and the Republicans are left without a senator by the failure to elect in Delaware Dela-ware There is however among public men of both parties in Washington great disgust at legislatures of these two states There is nothing very pleasant about I vacancies depriving states of representation representa-tion in the senate The experIences of the pat particularly in one congress during which Washington Montana and durng I Wyoming had each hut one senator hnve convinced Jlny leading senators that the rule adopted by the senate refusing to recognize senators appointed by governors to nil vacancies cause like those that now exist in Utah and Delaware ny l g jslatve failure to act Is incorrect and must be changed The failure < senatorIal elections by state legislatures males it every rear also more evident that a change must be made in the method of electing senators The house of representatives with only eleven dissenting votes declared it elf dissentng decared last year in fac of the direct election of 1 senators by the people Of the eleven I dissidents four came from Connecticut I Tine Nutmeg state Is notorious for having a system of representation In the legislature legisla-ture certain to Insuro RGPublcan success I It Is the Old Town system by which each country township is entitled to as many votes in the legislature as either of I the great cities of New Haven Hartford or Bridgeport The opposition to senatOral election by the people which revealed itself I it-self in the connecticut congressional dele Connectcut sel is therefore no evidence whatever I what-ever of popular opinion on the subject in that stale It is a peculiar fact that California which has just been scandalized by a long and yet unfinished senatorial deadlock has br an overwhelming majority of her popular vote declared for the election of senators by the people Many states through their legislatures have recommended recom-mended the same course When i is fully understood that the only thing blocking the submission to the people of a constitutional constitu-tional amendment for the popular election elec-tion of senators is the United States senate sen-ate Itself it is believed that there wi be beleved such a pressure on that body that i will vote for submission The ocurrences which have malked the contest in the legislatures of California Utah Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and Delaware have convinced vania everyone who has observed them at close I range that our constitutional machinery in the mater of electing senators Is sadly I I defective I I PARTY LINES BROKEN DaWN I Another feature of these contests that has displeased honest politicians of all capital is the parties in the national natonal II partes course taken by Republican members of the legislature in voting for Clark in Montana of Democratic members in Utah in voting for George Q Cannon and of I Democratic members in Delaware casting Edward their votes for the notorious J I Addicks No one here who Is at all i i formed about the contests in any of these t formed has any doubt as to the kind of inducements that are necessary to I who was elected by one make a legislator < pohiticai party cast his vote for a member I of the other party for the luSh office of I United States senator In little Delaware i themselves Democrats who disgraced the voting for Addicks have practically by votng in the been ostracized by their associates I I legislature and by formal resolution of drummed out of the party Democratic committees organization IiI Ii orgnzatIn I I Democratc There seems little doubt that in the long run the Democratic party wi profit br the failure to elect from Delaware I faiure The philadelphla Press owned by the postmaster general of the present administration admin-istration says in its current issue Prob istraton more the legislature of ably in twO years lCbsJature Delaware will again bc Democratic and wiH elect a Democrat to thl renne but ietter so them that the lepublcans should beter responsible for the elecllm of Addicls and who represents nothing but money the unscrupulous use li t and whoso t eiecticmn would brine r prch and uis 1 credIt < to thxm party and t tle stab responsible re-sponsible for imposing sccn a man on thu I united States senate I I lnitcll with the Delaware Republicans grw < publcas postmaster generals 1aper that an the I wIn i probabilities are that tne Demucrat carry the next legilature aril fure i I member of thir own party fu n I Addicks friends my that he i certainly i i makc good hIs threat md seE to it that I for some years Repull al chancEs of I I I success will be dim and diaphanous in I I Delaware There is not much afectoh I I among Republicail leaders here for Ad I i Reblcan licks but whatever the obJectons to I I him personally members of the Repub I llcah national committee admit that his money has been very potential In carrying carry-ing the state for the Republicans the three times they have succeeded I is also claimed that Addick wa a prodigal I clamed giver to Hannas campaIgn fund m ISIS iotwhthstanding the rude manner In which he was thrown out of tile St Louis con I ention which nominated Mr McKinley These Republican managers are great I iisapiioiiited at tine failure to frea il at I senator lit Delaware They really desired elected and cared have Republican I to a Republcan r very little whether It was Addlcls or some I Inc of the regulars tle tile senatorial elections are still endiag In California and Pennsylvania pending I there is a very strong probability par tcularly in the latter state of a failure vacancies continuC to elect Should these contn and rtah Delaware and CalifornIa go I Democratic in 100 the big Republican Democratc majority in the new senate would drop almost to the vanishing point HOBARTS SUCCESSOR The announcement made semiofcialy this weel that Vice PresIdent Hobart will I not run for reelecton has attracted much LttefltiOil to the possible choice of McKin 1 leys running mate Just at present there is a great deal of tale about Governor Uoosevelt of New York Many RelJb leans believe the McKinley and Roosevelt Roose-velt ticket would be aim ideal one I Is curious that it should be caimed that VIce President Hobarts with rawal from I the race is mainlY due to the fact hat I I New Jersey is recognized as the greatest I I rustbreeder among the states of the i mba rejrr fst administration of he 0111cc of vice president has been an I xcellent o feVli y very eonular in the senate and efficient in the chair I is I almost laughable that the best presiding dIcer that the Republican party has fur II fished to the senate for many years shouid be barred out Cf toe race because his state is friendly to trusts when the tcpubllcan part through its national ad nepublcan stands back of and fosters I every gigantic trust In the country I DEMOCRATIC CANDIDAlES I There is also a great deal of current I peculation as to the composition of the i speculaton national tieltet No doubt is natonal teleet Democrtc by silver Democrats of the ef mgi bllity of Mr Bryan to carry st next national convention Some of the eastern conenton Ion I Democrats however are already figuring on holding enough delegates away from I Bryan to deprive him of the twothirds vote necessary to nominate New York oliticians who huc been here this week claim 314 votes in the ncxt conyenton as ccrtaln to lie against Bryan In this list they count all the delegates from New York Pennsylvania New England Dela ware Maryland Wisconsin Washington and Oregon Even with thIs compilation hey only get eight more votes than the nccessan onethird I the Democrats opposed to Bryan can do no better tglr ing than this they might as well retire from the contest Minnesota has a free liver governor Delaware a free silver congresman and the ser Democrats are in the saddle in every one of the states named except Connecticut and pos Hibly New York Connecticut is really the only state in the Union in which the De1ocrltc organization has been rc actlnary The claim that Washington may send olid gold delegation to the national con cation is regarded as uproariously funny by Congressman J Hamilton LewIs and other sliver men from that state The general condition of thc silver Democracy in the south and west Is well 1 fw d1 jm eipress d In azi3neeixy ititerviewby ex I S ntol Joseph 1r Backbur of Ken tuctr who has ben in the city for the last two or three days Mr Blackburn I will return to Kentucky early next week and akean active part in the campaign He says thereis not the slightest doubt a4out the electlOpof a Democratic legis latir and he Is confident that he will be the choIce of tha body for United States senator You have no Democratic opponent for that honor None that I know of he answered The lgadiflg l issu of the KentUcky cam pain will be silver The Kentucky DemocratS Dem-ocratS will be agniinst expansion but it will be a secondary issue RANK H HOSItRD |
