Show PAVING THE atay and now idaho has run the gauntlet in the S bat close on tho heals of wyoming i expected as much the republicans will never leave a stone that will help to insure the success of the party nest presidential election nest spring may sao the house largely composed of democrats but if idaho and wyoming return republican senators pena tors to the senate which they will of course when admitted under republican patronage there is a show of that branch of congress remaining republican for years to come it is mainly in the senate that cana are benefited bv the admission of the new states and each one however small counts as many in the senate as the most powerful state in tho union in iha house it is far otherwise hero population one or two members sent from the now states will not count as much when compared with the returns from the whole country the eagerness on the part of the republicans to pave the way for 1892 shows that the next contest will be u most interesting if not a serious election in the north democrats have been gaining in members the last year and sections which were thought to bo strongly republican because they have in the past given republican majorities have now become strongly democratic this fact has led the republicans to not only admit territories that will favor the party without much regard as to the fitness of such to receive statehood but to propose a national election law which is intended to break up the solid south the latter if it becomes law may lead to nota and bloodshed because those high tempered South onera will never let negroes domineer over them and it is not just that they should the g 0 p may go a little to far in their endeavor to insure the success of their party |