The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-11
Politicians Find il Encourages
 CaTGIesSnesS Among Members
TARIFF MAY BE REDUCED
Many Believe MT. Roosevelrs sentl. ments Tend That Way and That He VIII Insist on
 Reduction.
BY PATTERSON sTEALEY.

Washington. November 1o-(specia1)- Political parties always dread a big ma jority in the house. 1t Is unwieldy and very hard to control; there is room for division and attendance is not considered necessary. It Is safe to say that re- publican managers had rather have fif- teen majority than six times that num- Der. Vice versa. having lost the house the democrats have an advantage and under the leadership of Mir. Williams of Mississippi will make up in discipline and capable management what they lack in number.
 Williams. Cochran and Towne are more than a match for the republican side 1t is also worthy of note that the repub- lican landslide had weeded out several democrats who have not been of much service to the democratic party. Among them might be mentioned Livernash of California: Baker of New York and Rob- inson of Indiana.
 General Regret Expressed.
 General regret is expressed here over the defeat in Missouri of Senator Cock rell and Representative Cowherd. While the Missouri senator has not been much of a party man in recent years, wnicn possibly partly accounts for his defeat at the same time he is honest. clean anle' industrious man whose work on the ap- | priations committee has saved the govern ment thousands of dollars. Representa- | tive Cowherds place in the house will also be difficult to fill. In striving in his | capacity as chairman of the congression- | al committee to elect a democratic house | he neglected his own district and went | down in defeat.
 | Said democrat today:
 Tn the language of Simon Suggs, who had just lost fifteen dollars-a fortune to r.rtt qreenhorn There's no telling how Tar luck or a half-broke steer will run
 Kentucky is the only one of the non secession states which went democratic.
 Mudd Ahead of Roosevelt.
 The only republican who ran ahead cf Roosevelt in the country seems to be Representative Sydney E. Mudd of Mary land The district contains heavy negro vote which was instructed to search Tor "Marse Sydney's" name and put their cross mark opposite 1t.
 Mudd ran at least fifteen hundred votes ahead of the President.
 In the election of 1890 the democrats se- cured a majority of 127 in the house. and this was reduced to 97 two years later. but the republicans have never been so successful as they were on Tuesday.
 Will Reduce the Tariff.
 
 Already there are well defined rumors in circulation that will prove disquieting to a large faction of the republican party | A republican congressman who Is in the city today, one who is not without infiu- ence in shaping legislation. tells The Age Herald correspondent that he does not believe the election of Tuesday is vim dication of the present Dingley tariff | rates.
 He even goes further and gives 1t as his opinion-an opinion amounting almost to conviction-that President Roosevelt will within two years or less run a-foul of the stand -patters and declare in the mild and genial way so characteristic ot
 him that the tariff rates are excessive and ought to be reduced, not nearly as much as the democrats would ask but enough per cent off here and there to per- suade the people in 1908 that the tarin has been revised.
 It will not be at all surprising if this view Is found to be the correct one. Under the leadership of Representative Bab- cock of Wisconsin there Is powerful faction of the republican party In taVor of tariff reduction. Babeock has con- tinually urged 1t for the past four years. He was hushed up on the eve of the eiec- ton by party necessity and 1t Is safe 10 say that he will again begin his agitation } of the subject From time to time IL mas 5 been reported that the President was not whoIely out of sympathy with this idea, and the expectancy is that 1t will con- time to grow in his favor. That 1t will re- ceive bitter opposition among the major e ity of republicans goes without saylng' but the President doesn't care for that.