The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-27
Each Party Expects to Control the
Next Congress.
DEMOCRATS CONFIDENT
UTAH CONCEDED TO BE SURELY
DEMOCRATIC.
Republicans Admit Their House Ma
jority Will Be Reduced, ana
Mark Hanna Says 1t Will Fall
Below Sixteen-Democrats Expect
Fifty NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Table.
Especial Correspondence.)

Washington, D. c., Oct. 23.-The sit
uation regarding the control of the new
congress continues to be the principal
quarters of the Democratic congression-
al committee there is still serene con-
| fidence. Everything is looking very
rosy" said Secretary James Kerr OF
this committee to the representative OF
The Herald. Our reports grow better
and brighter every day, and there is
no reason to doubt but that we shall
have the house by a large majority,
and the senate by small one. The
latest returns from the middle west
ern states show that this section, in
which at first there seemed small pros
pect for Democratic gains, will make a
fine showing. The situation in the east
continues favorable, and from the
Rocky Mountains and the Pacific slope
there will come few stray Republican
members
Vice Chairman Osborne of this COM
mittee, who is in the west actively en-
gagged in his campaign for the senate,
writes that Wyoming looks safe for the
Democratic ticket. He says nothing
about his own chances for election as
senator, but it is well understood here
senator with practically no opposition.
He is very popular in Washington. and
everyone will be glad to hear of his
success. At last accounts. according to
Secretary Kerr he was making an eX-
tensive canvass in the remote parts OF
the state, and was, to quote from Mr.
Kerr: "One hundred and twenty miles
from nowhere when he wrote me"
The advices from Colorado are that
IL. No. - NfIlra mil hl
elected by something like $4,000 major
ity, and Congressman ShafrOth reports
that his own election is assured, and
that Judge Bell will have his accus-
toned overwhelming majority.
SURE THING IN UTAH.
The Utah election is also one sided;
there is no question of the election of
the Democratic ticket in the state, and
notwithstanding the personal war
against Roberts, the state committee
and others in communication with the
congressional committee, feel that he
will have a substantial majority.
Washington people are much inter
ested in the next contest for senator
from Utah, as several of the prospect
i've candidates are, well-known in this
city.
Montana is another state about which
there is no room for doubt. 1t is con-
coded at Republican headquarters that
this state will elect the Democratic
state ticket and congressman, and
choose the legislature that will return
a Democrat to the senate.
Many expressions of admiration for
the patriotic course of Charles S. Hart
man continues to be received. Chair
man Charles a. Towne of the national
silver Republican. committee, who is
warm friend of Hartman, writes a per-
sonal friend in this city a warm tribute
to Hartman Many politicians here ex-
press the hope that matters will so
shape themselves that Hartman may
secure the Montana senatorship.
BABCOCK'S TABLE.
Chairman Babcock of the Republican
national congressional committee shows
more political acumen than usual when
he puts Colorado. Utah, Montana and
Nevada in the column of states that
will elect Democratic senators this
year: he, however, places Wyoming in
doubt, which is only one of the many
mistakes he finds time to make. Chair
man Babcock has prepared tabulated
statement as to what he considers the
of the next senate. He fig
ures il that to control the senate the
having already 81 men,
bers and must elect ten more. The fol-
lowing table shows the states which
will elect Legislators this fall, and will
choose senators TO take their place next
March, and also shows Chairman Bah
cocks claim as to the result in each
state: