Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — GORMAN IS BEATEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GORMAN IS BEATEN.

Republicans Control the Legialatw* ■ —in Maryland. According to Associated Press diepatches, an official count of the ballots cast in Maryland leaves no further room for doubt that the Republican*! have control of both branches of the Legislature and that a Republican will succeed Arthur P. Gorman in the United State* Senate. The Republicans have forty-nine

members in the House and the Democrats forty-two. The Republicans also have, eighteen Senators to eight for the Democrats, and a majority on joint ' ballot of seventeen. Among those most »prominently menI tinned as the probable successor to Senator Gormanare Alexander Shaw, former Con-

BE.XATOR gobman. gressman John V. L. Fimjjgy, Postmaster General Gary and Congressman Sidney E. Mudd. The result will make no immediate change in Senator Gorman’s plans, as hi* term does not expire until March 4,1899. Mr. Gorman will not be troubled by the howling of the traditional wolf of poverty at his door. He probably could draw his check for $3,000,000 without an indorsement. His money was made largely through lucky investments in some coal and iron lands in western Maryland. Mr. Gorman will be missed in the Senate. In one way and another he has been associated with this body at various times since 1852, when be entered it as a page. In January, 1880. he was elected to the United States Senate to succeed William Pinckney White. He took his seat March 4, 1881, and was re-elected in 1886 and in. 1892.