The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-09-19
@1TTLE FOR CONTROL
OF THE NEXT CONGRESS
.;-n,en Griggs and Sherman Have Their Forces Lined
IN for Great Fight How Campaigns Are Carried
m How Money Is Used in the Elections
). j. Dickson in th'


management of campaign for
IH' Of the House of Representa-
conuo' boen reduced as nearly to
tys' 40 as can be easily imagined.
''I' T. nothing haphazard about it;
In5'T left to blind chance no over,
n0.D,a @ Of any detail, however trivial
lo0AiDS onnear to the Impractical eye.
II IaI however, the activities OF
entrusted with the management
toOss congressional campaign are
o. wy Grizzly speaking, national in their
lV'' Tbev are confined for the most
S'0pv -, few districts-those that are
p''' oo in the parlance of the poll
'- 'n.. those that are debatable
"'l~ ,nd And this category is smaller
.son the average voter would guess
of,hand s.,u,,oa an
a+3on to the general rule. The
&c that the Republican major
- the House is now abnormally
~ # is ia. To secure control
|'4 tho next House, which is that of
..,,+ioth Congress, the Democrats
-, have to hold every district their
..,. now has, and take fifty-elght
p from the Republicans. In spite
- +bfs unusual majority to overcome,
10 mon who are managing the cam
-. for the Democrats are even
a,oro confident of winning. This
,,olos the fight interesting. 1t
L Of course, generally conceded that
tho Republican majority will be cut
Tho Roosevelt landslide of 1904 is re-
sronsible for the huge Republican ma
iortv in the fifty-ninth Congress. In
Tho last campaign the Democrats lost
more than a dozen districts that they
had controlled for years.
The campaign of each party is man.
oged by a central committee. com
nospd of members of Congress, who
.ro elected by their colleagues in the
House The Republican Congression-
al Campaign Committee this year is
headed nv a new chairman, Repre-
sentative James Schoolcraft Sherman,
of Utica. N. Y. His associates are:
representative James A. Tawney, OF
Minnesota vice-chairman; Represen-
tative Henry Clay Loudenslager, OF
New Jersey, secretary; and Repre-
sentative William Brown Mckinley, OF
Illinois, treasurer.
representative James M. Griggs, oil
Georgia, is again chairman of the
Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee. Two members Of theI
House are associated with him as
yicechairmen. They are r. F. Brous-
ard, of Louisiana, and D. L. D. Gran
ger, of Rhode Island. The secretary
of the committee is Charles A. Ed
wards, of Texas. an official of the
House, and the treasurer is James L.
Norris, of Washington, who is the Dis
trict of Columbia member Of the Dem
ocratic National Committee. Judge
Griggs is assisted by a subcommittee
composed of conspicuous Democrats
Of both the Senate and House as fol
lows: Representative z. J. Bowers, OF
Mississippi; Senator F. G.. Newlands,
Of Nevada; Representative James T.
Lloyd, of Missouri Representative W.
H. Ryan, of New York: Representa- !
tive Henry T. Rainey, of Illinois; Rep |
resentative D. E. Finley, of South
Carolina; Representative Charles A.
Weisse, of Wisconsin; Representative
John A. Keliher, of Massachusetts;
Representative Frank Clark, of Flor
liza; Senator Fred T. Dubois, of Idaho;
and Representative w. r. Smith, OF
IeXas. His organization thus is larS-
er than that of Mr. Sherman though |
OF course, the latter will draft into the
service of his party as many mem
oers of the Senate and House as the
eHlgencies of the campaign may de
mand.
'69trmaD Sherman has opened head
quarters for his committee in the st,
James building, Broadway, New York,
ana has employed there an office force
u thlrty-fye clerks, stenographers, ETC.
Cnalrman Griggs, following the Demo
Iduc custom, has opened headquar-
'eIS Ior his committee in Washington,