Delaware Gazette And State Journal

There were further interesting developments, Tuesday, in the various senatorial contests now in progress throughout the country. In California, one of the leading contestants, U. S. Grant, reluctantly testified before the bribery investigating committee of the Legislature that his expenses during the recent campaign had been more than $20,000. Of course, it is well-known what this implies, and it ought to keep Mr. Grant, who is simply posing upon the name of his illustrious father and the influence of his personal wealth, out of the Senate forever.

In West Virginia the situation is very exciting, and a separate ballot was taken Tuesday, resulting in 46 votes each for John T. McGraw, Democrat, and N. B. Scott, Republican, with two Republican members refusing to vote for the latter. Several contested seats are still pending, and it is said to be the intention of the Democratic House and of the Republican Senate to throw out opposition members promiscuously until one side or the other has the margin on joint ballot.

In Nebraska, Wisconsin, Montana, Washington and Utah, the senatorial deadlocks developed no changes.

Four new Senators, however, were the result of the day's voting. They are John Kean, Rep., in New Jersey, to succeed James Smith, Dem.; ex-Governor C. A. Culberson, Dem., in Texas, who succeeds Senator Roger Q. Mills, Dem.; Senator Clarence D. Clark, Rep., re-elected in Wyoming, and Senator William M. Stewart, Silver Rep., in Nevada.

The details of the futile ballotings in Pennsylvania and Delaware are well-known.

The Republican proposition to wipe out the one dollar registration fee is regarded by the Lewes Pilot as 'the first signal gun indicating the policy of the boodlers.' The tax is rather too heavy for the party to carry, it believes, and as the move is made by one of the parties in the habit of paying money for political purposes it is surmised that they were guilty of paying the registration fee of a majority of their voters at the late election. Fortunately, the Pilot concludes, there are several obstructions in the way, and then it may be only a bill for buncombe, a sop to the fellow that sits on the fence on election day.

Referring to the silly wit of the New York Herald in calling anti-expansionists 'aunties,' the New York World designates some of the latter, such as Cleveland, Hoar, Vest, Edmunds, Carlisle, Carl Schurz, W. Bourke Cockran, Samuel Gompers, the labor leader, and others, and adds: 'It is a very humorous word of course; but when applied to the great body of sane Americans who are opposed to the craze and crime of Philippine annexation and the assimilation of a Malay pandemonium 8,000,000 strong and 10,000 miles distant, is it not rather a misfit?'

Theatre parties and costly wine dinners in Philadelphia might easily lead to absentees at the ensuing day's session of the Legislature, should the members attend them in any considerable number. And then a Senator might be slipped on the next ballot.

It will be better, therefore, for the members to decline such invitations until the session is over. Perhaps they will not be troubled with them then.