Salt Lake Herald | 1878-11-17 | Page 2 | The Democratic Majority

The Democratic Majority. Chicago, 16. Tribune's editorial on its Washington dispatch: A demo cratic eBtimateof the formation of the Forty-sixth house, made by friends ol Speaker Kandall, claims a plurality of nineteen over republicans, and a majority of fourteen over all. This result is reached by locating the greenback members according to their previous party predileclioup, together with the characteristically dtinocratic process of assuming that io every contested case the seat will be awarded to the democratic claimant.