The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-01
Everything Coming Democratic
 Way for Past Thirty Days
REPUBLICANS ARE GUESSING
Chairman Griqgs Shows Where Demo- cratic Gains Are to Be Made and Finds Minimum Total of
 Sixty-seven.

Washington, October 31.-"For thirty days everything has been coming our way, and I think I am justified in saving that the next House of Representatives will be democratic"
 1 Representative Griggs of Georgia, chair- man of the democratic congressional eo l mittee, gave utterance to the above ' night, and continued:
 The republicans are sending out
 their headquarters in New York 1.OC postal cards calling on their voters
 q Macedonian cry to get to the polls 1 vote for the party candidates to say 1 control of the house. We haven't money to send out a million postals. It will cost our republican friends $200O0 to do IL; but the people realize the situation. | They don't care continental about tho | republican cards and they don't need | cards from us.
 Four Years Ago. -Four years ago." continued MT. Griggs, we had the election won, until J. Pier pont Morgan came to town to confer with the President about ending the coal strike. When that was settled our chance was gone. Go back only a year, and recall that in the New York mayoralty election, three days before election, odds were three to ono for Mcclellan; ten days before election they were ten to one on him; yet l guess not many folks doubt that Hearst was elected mayor, as he will be elected governor this year and counted | in.
 Tt has been going that way every. where this year. Our republican friends are greatly disturbed about the situation, and l don't blame them. Not only are local conditions in many states favoring Us, but overshadowing all this Is the fact that there Is widespread unrest re garding the tariff. Many people for a long time suppressed their dissatisfaction with the republican tariff policy, because they thought the President was at heart for tariff revision, and would get around
 to 1t fin due time. That kpt the masses of tariff revision republicans lined up for q long while. But when they came to re- alize that the administration had gone oyer to the stand -patters they saw the error of their ways. Just the other day at Baltimore, Secretary Taft admitted that, of course there were some excres- cences on the tariff structure, and he advised that the way to be rid of them was to have revision by it's friends. Sec : retary Taft means by this to elect an- other stand-pat house, with another stand pat speaker; with the same stand-par i committee on ways and means, and with l every other place on the guard line in 1 control Of the opposition to tariff changes. l And out of that the people are asked to get a revision of the tariff by its friends
 Country Understands Situation. i Eut t4e country understands the situ- 2t.on. IL Is swinging Into line with Ls. Gi.d lGanS people will be sdl piise1 aL the result oil election day"
 1 Mi. riisgs was asked about the est- mates ;nat have been given out by some i democratic aGtAoiitlez. claiming gains of i sixty seven incm5e.s of Inc house. He looked over the list and said: The claim of gain ot ten in New York is safe. :. Hearst is sure of election I think, likely l by 100000. The claim of one gain each in i Massachusetts. North Carolina. ks,tacly, Montana, Delaware. Rhode Island. Cen nectcut. Idaho and Virginia aIe ali good. but we will not gain six in Peansyi We will gain more than tha. nd Similarly the claim of a democratic of six in Illinois Is too conservative
 will gain eight in Missouri. Conce of five or six are made in Ohio, D know better Iowe. Nebraska and | forna can l., elgHtci on for gains the computation that pats us do1 gain only three in Indiana Is in Colorado has been claimed for a gs
 one, but will do better than that.
 Jersey Is hopolessly torn up, and is
 counted on for 2, least thee.' Griggs figures out. fin short. ga l ratheg better than the siXty-seyen cl in other computations.
 How 1t Was Done. 1 We held back in the early part campaign" he said. Ito let matters themselves, then we got busy. II
 west we were busy earlier. But in era1 the statement is fair that dlsaff' in the east, added to western sentIInent on the tariff question, is going to make the gains for democracy. There is no telling how much more we may gain than these of which we are confident, because in the last days of this campaign tho drift has been so strongly toward the democrats that there Is no safe guessing how far 1t may go. The republicans are good deal more guarded in their claims than they were a fortnight ago. They know that 1t is useless to put out claims that will be recognized as ridiculous" the famous entertainment of King Charles of Portugal December 1o 1g05