The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-23
(Man Special to the Advertiser.)

years. They have not figured out yet
just what it signifies in the broad field
of politics. Hearst was beaten for
governor in New York, to the great
delight of President Roosevelt, and
probably removed as a possibility for |
the Democratic presidential nomination |
in 1908 But the rest of the Democratic
ticket in New York was elected.
The Republicans retain control of
the House of Representatives but their
majority will be around fifty where it
is now 112. A number of prominent
Republicans fell by the way side and
many more pulled through by a scratch.
Majorities were reduced all along the
line but how much it was due to fac
tional quarrelS in several states ana
how much to the usual off-year indlf-
ference is quite as difficult as 1T is to
tell how much the Presidents plea for
the reelection of a Republican House
was effective.
Representative McCleary, of Mime
sofa, in a class with Speaker Cannon
and Representative John Dalzell, as
arch standpatters, is left at home.
Tariff revision did it. although his dis
trict is normally Republican by big
vote. Representative j. w. Babcock,
of Wisconsin, revisionist, was also
found in the minority but by reason of
other old scores his constituents had
against him. Yes, ladies, Representa-
tive Nicholas Longworth, of Ohio. is
safe and some of the politicians are
willing to concede that the campaign
ing of his fair wife, formerly Miss
Alice Roosevelt, had a lot to do with
the big vote he received. But Mr..
Longworth had to stipulate with the
Cincinnati organization that he would
not again be a candidate. otherwise
they might have beaten him. He will
go out of Congress the same day his
father-in-law goes out of the White
House
Representative Lacey, of Iowa, one
of the finest of men who has weather.
ed many a political blizzard out Oska-
loosa way, was showed under. He has
been a useful member of the House for
more than ten years, but went down
because the young progresslVes OF Iowa
did not like his criticisms of Cummins.
Young Fred Lands, from one of the
rockribbed Indiana district, stripping
who unexpectedly won nomination IN
the district convention four years ago,
was voted out by bullfrog chorus, as
the malcontents styled themselves. He
was befriended by Representative and
Mrs. LongwOrth, who visited his dis
trict during the campaign. Another
| brother c. B. Lands, was reelected
from an Indiana district by a reduced
majority.
And so one might go on down the
line of a long list of congressional aspi-
Representative James w. Wadsworth,
| of New York, should not be overlooked,
for he was beaten because he received
! a scoring from the President for his
attitude against the Beveridge meat
| inspection rider. The President after
| ward apologized for the scathing let
| ter he wrote Mr.. Wadsworth, it hav-
| ing transpred that a prominent Sem
| ator misrepresented the situation with
! reference to Wadsworth to the Pres
| ident. However, the apology was
never made public and Wadsworth's
opponent, an independent Republican,
| Peter A Porter, got into office by
| good margin.
| DEMOCRATIC MORTALITY.
The Democratic senators north of
Mason and Dixon's line We're almost
l
| and Colorado, states that We're drawn
! into the free silver swirl of 1896 and
| elected senators before returning to
the Republican column, that are still
serving, all elected Republican legis-
| Iatures Two of these inter-mountain
senator's are still serving-Senators
| Teller, of Colorado, and NeWlands, OF
| Nevada. But there will be several
! Democratic governors of northern
states Little Rhode Island, which has
been going Democratic occasionally in
| recent years put out a Republican
! governor Utter, and elected Higgins,
! young Democrat, who was student
| in Georgetown Law School in this city
| a few years ago. Minnesota gave
| complete surprise by rejecting Gov
| John A. Johnson, a Democrat, by a
| great big majority. AS the Republicans
were supposed to be united again, GOV
| Johnson's reelection was hardly looked
/ for. Even rockribbed North Dakota,
| a little state that has stood for Re-
! publicanism through thick and thin has
elected a Democratic governor. Even
| Kansas has come very near electing an
| ex-Confederate. ex-senator Harris. as
| governor and the official count may
show that he has more votes than
| Gov Hoch. Gov. Cummins plurality
was so small that his defeat was feared
for a time. There We're also other hair
/ breadth escapes. Nevada stood
staunchly Democratic. electing a gov
ernor of that faith. but California came
near going over to the Democracy The
vicious fight that Hearst made against
the Democratic candidate for governor
enabled the Republican. Representative
! James N Gillett. to win, just as hap
pened two years ago.
ALI. AT SEA.
| Accordingly it is little wonder that
| the politicians are all al sea and specu-
! late much about what the election real
" means. Had it not been for Roos-
! evelt's popularity and for his Appeals
| RPDubliCanS