Show GOLDBUG SENATORS The Boston Herald a very excellent and usually fair and impartial paper has this to say of the western senators Another sagebrush state To the group consisting of North and South Dakota Nevada Montana Idaho Washington and Wyoming is now added add-ed Utah The total male population of voting age in these eight states according accord-ing to the last census Is 499913 And yet they ran boast of sixteen members of the United States Senate and they are a senatorial prop for a debased currency cur-rency The Herald is very indignant at such a condition of things but bad as a sagebrush state is an abandoned farm state is worse None of the states named above have had commissions to enquire into the cause for the abandonment abandon-ment of their farms but such things are not entirely unknown in dear old New Ensrl nd But to return to the subject of sagebrush sage-brush Senators To the broad minds of the people of the East who favor the gold standard such an outrage as eight states with a total male voting population popu-lation of 499913 having sixteen senators in Congress 5s almost unbearable and shows what a terrible strain is being put upon American institutions n But we fear they have not taken the beam out of their own eye in this matter mat-ter of senatorial representation The census of 1890 shows that four good goldbug states with a total male population pop-ulation ot voting aaa 01 eight members In the United States Senate These states are Delaware 47559 New Hampshire 118135 Rhode Island 100017 Vermont 101697 i i Total 367403 And yet they can boast of eight members mem-bers of the United States Senate and they are a senatorial prop for an appreciating ap-preciating standard j 11 |