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Show THii POLITICAL OUTLOOK. The country is now in the heat of a red-hot election campaign. The eastern papers come laden with political po-litical speeches and the usual amount of campaign literature, from which it is next to impossible to gain any information in-formation except th it a vigorous canvass is fping on. "-nd politicians and place-hunters urn. airing their nloquente before the suffering masses Party platforms and speeches are full of promises and abuse, in all of which there is little else than wind. No one expects the fulfillment of the former, or that anything serious is implied, in the latter. The fall contest thisi year is a struggle for supremacy in tho next house of representatives, the senate being assured to the democrats alter the 4th of March next. There is little doubt that the democrats will have a majority of members in the bouse. Every indication points to this desired result. The party is certain to have a plurality over any other, but it is barely possible that the greenbackers, nationals, independents and workingmen, who havo recently developed wonderful strougtb at the polls, may fill enough Boats, which, united with the republicans, would control the lower branch of the national legislature. This, however, is hardly probable. The factions, or parties as they may now be termed, are made up from both of the great organizations, and do not difler materially, ma-terially, in principles, from them. The republicans have been the heaviest hea-viest losers, and the new parties are nearer in harmony with the democrats. Hence they are more liable to jiain with that party than with the other; therefore, if it becomes necessary for either of i the great parties to have the support ; of the greenbackers and nationals, tho democrats are pretty sure to obtain that help. One reason why the cam i paign is being so earnestly carried on is to secure the majority of Btates, as , well as tbe majority of members in the house. The parties are so evenly i divided throughout the country as to cause a fear that the people will fail to eleot a president in 1880, in which event this duty would devolve upon the bouse of representatives, voting by Btates and not by numbers of , representatives. Tbe democrats in the present house have a majority of seventeen, yet the republicans could i choose tha president were the election ' to be thrown into tho bouse. This is ; how the state delegations stand: i Democrats Alabama, Arkansas, Cal-i Cal-i lfornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Dela-i Dela-i ware, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, : Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New I Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia 18. RopublicanB Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, i Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, ) Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, i Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode a Island, South Carolina, Vermont and f Wisconsin 19. Florida has one b democratic and one republican mem - ber. It iB certain that the last named r state will count lor the democrats in s the next congress, which, leaving i the other states as they are, would s make a tie. It is probable, however, i that the republicans will carry r Colorado, which was Btolenfrom them it last year. California is doubtful, n with the chances in favor' of the d democrats. The republicans have already loaL Oregon, and will lose South Carolina. Conceding the only other doubtful states -New York, j Ohio and Pennsylvania to the re-i publicans, tbe democrats would have; nineteen Btates, and with California, j twenty, to eighteen for the republicans. repub-licans. In the event of an independent indepen-dent or third party for the presidency, 1 the election is almost sure to go into the house, when, according to our way of looking at the situation, the democrats can choose their man. |