Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-30
BABCOCK SURE
CONGRESS IS SAFE
Republican Chairman Always a COnSer-
VatiVe-MajOrIty In Next House.
REPUBLICANS TO CONTROL HOUSE.
Trustworthy but Unofficial Estimate Places
the FiguaeS at 2O5 to l6O-PrOsperity
Bred of Republican Policies, the
Only Apparent Cause for
Alarm.
REPUBLICANS TO CONTROL HOUSE.

New York. Oct. 24.-There is no longer
any doubt about Republican control of the
next House of Representatives. 1t is sim
ply question of majority. This majority
now is estimated at anywhere from twenty
to fifty. Apathy and a light vote may
brig it near the former figure, but an
average attendance at the polls will give
the Republicans majority equal, at least,
to that in the present House.
ave shall carry the next House Of Rep
resentatives by larger majority thsn we
had in 1898, is the way Representative
Babcock, Of Wisconsin, chairman OF the
Congressional Campaign Committee, put
it today. There was an cir of satisfaction
and conviction about the veteran political
manager as he made this statement to a
correspondent. Slr. Babcock never makes
predictions without having safe basis on
which TO rest them His latest statement
he makes after canvassiug in detail the
situation in every State in the Union where
Republican Congressman can be elected
sPLEADID OUTLOOK.
In 1898 the Republicans elected a ma
jority uf thirteen in the House, and when
Mr.. Babcock Gays that this figure will be
exceeded he makes conservative esti.
mate, snd one that ii more than doubled
by some of his more enthusiastic asso.
ciatee MIR. Casson, sergesnt-at-arms of
the present Hou-e and Wisconsin polit.
clan Of long experience and expert khowl-
edge, does not hesitate to place the major
ity as high as that in the present House.
Mr.. Casson is in charge Of the speakers
bureau at headquarters here, and is in
touch with the sentiment in every State
where the committee is making an aggres-
sive campaign. Postmaster General Payne,
whose political acumen has been proven
in many national campaigns, declares the
Republicans will have larger majority in
the next House than they hold in the
present House.
These three Wisconsin men, experience
ed in national politics, trained in their
home State, where campaigning is a
science, form triumvirate whose opinion |
is rated at par. The confidence they ex.
press breeds confidence, and today the
managers of the Congressional campaign,
the candidates for Congress and the army
of public speakers IN the field are certain
that the voters of the country will express
their faith in President Roosevelt and his
Administration by giving him Republic
an House to support his policies in the
next Congress.
In predicting that the control of the
House OF Representatives will remain with
tie Republicans in the next House, Chair
man Babcock has carefully considered all
the conditions of this "of" year. de s
calculating upon light vote, especially in
the Eastern States, where workingmen are
too busy to pay much attention to politics.
Anomalous as it may appear, prosperity,
which has been created by Republican
policies, now threatens Republican MAORI.
ties Men who haye steady employment,
who are doing full days work six days in
the week, lave little time to attend politi-
cal meetings and are apt to be little care
les about going to the polls on election
day.
This feature of the campaign has been
closely investigated by Mr.. Babcock and
the corps of political workers in the field.
and nowhere has any other cause for In
difference to politics been discovered than
the lack Of time and physical disincina-
ton to attend political meetings. These
investigations have proved at the same
time that the spirit of Indifference is even
stronger in Democratic ranks than in those
of the Republicans.