Show BY CHANCE cn to enter the bab t from the solid south senator higgins of delaware is the only republican in that body from all the southern and border etalee it ie well to noto thi fact to consider what it and ite effect on tho rest of tho country in all the states which went into the thero is dot a single republican equator time baa been sine the war when there were many slowly but steadily they have th da presents a solid front IS abis is no sectional plea no argument it is only tho plain statement of something which needs to be considered it ia not chance it is the result of a definite policy resolutely entered apon and unflinchingly carried out by itself it ie worthy of being held up to public view why is it that the south is solid that no republican can hope to enter the united states senate from that section but this is not all tho story there border states states that held between north and south that divided either as political entities or as to their inhabitants states which bad soldiers in both armies let w see how these states bt and missouri two ex confederates kentucky two men who served in the confederate army tennessee two ex con one of whom rose to be a general west virginia separated from the old dominion to stay in the union but the southern policy baa wiped out the last show of republican representation both her senators eena tors are democrats both served in the confederacy eAcy maryland which lies alongside the national capital has two democrats A republican has about as good a chanco to be elected to the senate from her capital ae from georgia or mississippi republicans are not in it in tho border states any than in the ex confider ate states only delaware lattio delaware next to state in the whole union has a single republican mr higgans let us collate this interesting list let tho voters of the north northeast northwest and west see how it looks aeo it there is any about it see if euca things happen elsewhere atmo lupus crat 2 0 2 1 X florid 3 Goril tt S 3 Loal alua Mu yUad 3 MiMi ippi onri S north Ciro llna 3 south Girol ln a 0 virtlow Virt lol wert virginia S 0 To tola 1 sixteen states in ono solid body in ono section of our country and the proportion ie just 81 to 1 democrats baa peat odly declared that this one bot in by an accident that it never happened bo fore and would not aaen |