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Show REPUBLICAN LOSSES. Present appearance presage serious Republican losses at the November election. The nomination of Judge Folger for the governorship of New York has been bitterly opposed by other Republican managers, and will unquestionably result in the weakening of that party at the polls. It is quite possible that it may give the state to the Democrats. Indeed well informed journals predict this result. The split that has taken place in the Republican party in Pennsylvania is almost certain to give that state to the Democrats. The Keystone state, next to New York, sends the largest delegation to Congress, and if the Democrats carry the state, it will insure them a majority in the lower house. There is division in the Republican household in the Old Dominion, the bone of contention being the question. Shall the state pay its debts honestly, or shall it be "readjusted?" The readjusters came into power last January, and they are working to carry out their financial policy, while a strong element of the Republican party of the state is working to maintain the honor and honesty of the state by having the public debt paid according to the tenor of the vouchers. Republican losses are looked for on the Pacific Coast on account of the action of that party and the administration in relation to the Chinese question, and it is expected that the Democrats will gain some congressmen in Ohio and Indiana. On the whole, the prospect of a Democratic majority in the next House of Representatives is very fair. The complexion of the Senate will be little changed, and the Republicans will continue to have a fair working majority in that body. |