Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — COUNT NEW SENATORS. [ARTICLE]

COUNT NEW SENATORS.

Democratic Claims to Nebraska, Kansas, and North Dakota Vigorously Disputed. The Republican Senatorial caucus met in Washington and further discussed the programme to be followed by the party in regard to the prospective senatorial contests in several of tho Western States. A resolution offered by Senator Hawley (Conn.) was adopted authorizing the chairman (Senator Sherman) to appoint a committee of five Senators to take into consideration the wisdom and propriety of senatorial interference in these contests. The consensus of opinion expressed was that while tho Senators did not desire nor intend to interfere with the Stutes in carrying out the will of the people, it was the duty of tho Republican Senators to resent strenuously the assertions ot iho Democrats, who are now, as they charge, trying to pervert public sentiment. ft was shown to the satisfaction of the caucus, so a dispatch says, that the Democratic “steering committee” had no ground upon which to stand when it gave out the authorized interview in New York, and in corroboration of this some figures were produced. In Nebraska It was said by the speakers that the Democrats had but four members in the entire Legislature, and in Kansas but seventeen. In North Dakota the Republicans had a clear majority of nine In both branches, and in Wyoming five. In California and Montana the vote is close, with the Populists holding the balance of power. One of the active members of the caucus said it was not the intention of the Republicans to appoint any so-called “steering committee," for the reason that the only purpose ot such a committee would be to exercise an improper influence upon the Legislatures in the States in question.