Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1894 — MEMBERS OF THE NEXT HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

MEMBERS OF THE NEXT HOUSE.

Only Seventy-Six Democrats Re-Elected— The Changes Slade, There will be in the next House 244 Republicans, 104 Democrats, six Populists, one silver man, and there is one vacancy, caused by the death of Mr. Wright, oi the Fifteenth Pennsylvania district, a Republican. There are 2is Democrats in the present House, and of these there were but seventy-six re-elected. Onehundred and eleven, were succeeded by Republicans, three by Populists and twentyeight by Democrats who were named in their places. Of those who voted for the Wilson bill as it passed the House in February, six Populists were defeated for re-election, along with fifty-nine Democrats. The successors of fifty-eight of those will bo Republicans and two Populists. One Democrat who supported the Wilson bill and was not renominated will be succeeded, bya Populist, while forty-two Democrats who voted for it and did not seek renomination have Republican successors. There were sixteen Democrats who opposed the Wilson bill, and of these seven were defeated, one by a Tammany Demosrat and six by Republicans. Five did not seek re-election, four will find Republicans occupying their places in the next congress, while one gives way to another Democrat. But four of that sixteen were re-elected. The Populists come from Newaskr, Kansas, Colorado, Alabama and North Carolina, each of which sends one, sxcept North Carolina, which elects two.