Show THE ELECTIONS THE smoke of the battle has ly cleared up op from the field to give cis as a reasonably comprehensive idea of how the positions of the respect respective lVe hosts lie considerable disaster has hao occurred here and there and ana none of the forces have emerged from the conflict with serried columns while among the cap captains talas many have lenThe fal defeat of speaker carlisle of kentucky and morrison of illinois which seem probable althis writing and of frank hurd of ohio which is certain are perhaps the hardest blows the democracy nas has to ta bear they could better have spared other men the next house of representatives will be democratic by a very small majority not exceeding twenty five and it may fall as low as ten la in the present house that party predominates by forty three votes but any majority inconsonance in consonance with the administration is better than none as with both branches of congress against it the situation of trio president and his cabinet would be very embarrass ing gnp the net neg result is a decided republican gain although they have suffered serious reverses in places in minnesota where they have all the congressmen at present the demo brats have apparently captured all the first firs t time the latter party has had a on oa from that state in iowa they have gathered in two or three representatives and this state has so uniformly sent an unbroken republican delegation to congress that anything else coming from that source will savor somewhat of a political curiosity the same except as to numbers can be said of nebraska where tile the democrats get a representative for the first time since the present first organized as territory in new hampshire where three republicans public ans aDs have been chosen as congressmen right along for years the delegation to the fiftieth congress will stand two democrats and one republican in new jersey it looks as if the legislature was democratic and if this should prove to be the case there will be one more democrat and one less republican in the united states senate as the former body elects a benator to succeed mr sewell whose term on the fourth of mar march c h next anre the he legislatures of california and indiana each of which states have bave an outgoing senator are still in doubt and if these should be democratic ocra tic with the gain of one already secured in virginia the senate would change hands and bott both bra branches liches ol 01 congress thus be in harmony with the administration the most serious losses to both parties have occurred mainly in their respective strongholds strong holds which illustrates the truth of the old adage that politics makes strange bec 11 |