Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-28
Will Issue a Statement Next
Monday.
DOUBTFUL DISTRICTS
FIFTY TO BE CARRIED BY THE
DEMOCRATS.
Three Prominent Republican Repre-
sentatives to Be Defeated-An
Apropos Story Told.

Considerable amusement has been ere
ated in Washington and elsewhere by the
report that Representative Cowherd, chair
man of the democratic congressional COM
mittee, will issue statement next Monday
predicting the outcome Of the coming con-
gressional elections 1t is understood that
Mr.. Cowherd will claim, in a cheerful. COM
prehensive sort of way, that the demo-
Gratis are certain to carry fifty OF the So
called doubtful districts, which, of course,
would give the party clear working ma
jority in the lower house Of the Fifty-ninth
Congress. It is understood, however, that
none of the doubtful districts to be so car
ried by the democrats will be named until
after election. One of Mr.. Cowherds re-
publican colleagues, In discussing this last
particular statement today, said he had
never realized before just how much OF
humorist the democratic chairman was.
Three to Be Defeated.
The boast has also been made at demo-
cratic congressional headquarters recently
that Rep, esentative Babcock of Wisconsin.
chairman of the republican congressional
committee, Representative Overstreet OF
Indiana, secretary of that body, and Rep
resentative Hemenway Of Indiana, chair
man of the appropriations committee of the
house, probably the three most prominent
republicans Of the House, would be thrown
on the mercies of the cold, cold world as
result of the coming congressional elections
If supposedly accurate reports received IN
Washington very recently contain even a
percentage Of truth, Representatives BAD
cock, Overstreet and Hemenway are prac-
tically certain of reelection. Just the same,
the chairman of the democratic congress
soral committee would probably rather see
the three men nan ed lose their seats IN the
House than any ether members OF the low
er body. And this statement has no per-
sonal significance, either.
One Case Of Rainbow Chasing.
The republican who gave Mr.. Cowherd
the title Of humorist also had something
to say on the general subject of RAINBOW
chasing, and particular case that fingered
in his recollection. 1T wasn't so very
many years ago." he remarked, that an
other democratic congressional committee
chairman achieved a fine reputation as
rainbow chaser and official predictfonSt. IL
was practically foregone conclusion that
year that the republican party would have
more than a working majority in the House
In fact the democrats didn't appear 10
have any show at ALL But that d1dn
bother the chairman with the rainbow pro-
pensities. He went right ahead predicting.
and his ambitions were so active and his
hopes SO high that by the time election day
arrived he had made some pretty wild
statements. He was a man, however, who
possessed considerable common sense,
when he wasn't rainbow chasing, and he
realized that he had made some pretty tall
predictions. So on election night, just be-
fore the returns began to come in he sum-
moned his messenger and said in fun, but
with apparent seriousness: I'm going to
spend the evening in my private office with
some friends. and l want the returns as
fast as they come in. But / swear that
if you bring me the news of the election OF
a single republican I'll discharge you"
The Night Of Election.
when the chairman and his friends
got together a good deal of conviviality
and other things were uncorked, and by
the time the returns began to come in the
chairman was enthusiastic and not par
ticularly discriminating. Neither were
his friends, and consequently the bulle-
tins that reached the chairman's Office,
telling of the election of democrats, and
try, from Maine to California, were up
roariously received. Every time the
chairman took a drink he raised the
probable democratic majority in the
House. and every time he raised the ma
jority he took another drink. Finally, in
in his Imagination he saw an almost solid
democratic House, and to a friend who
called him up on the telephone late that
night, just before he went to sleep on his
office sofa, he said: Most stupendous
victory in the history of politics. Amaz-
ing and gratifying. Not a republican
elected in the United States today
The Next Morning.
THE next morning the same friend call
ed up the chairman and began to read to
him over the telephone the headlines in
some of the papers, telling of sweeping
republican victory, and then inquired,
What happened to your predictions of
last night?'
ooh said the chairman, YEARLY, with
morning after tone in his voice, last
night 1 had a bottle by the neck and
rainbow by the tail, and there wasn't
anything could shake me loose from
either one of them. But I've got head
ache and all the facts now"