The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-23

 ARE AT WORK Congressional Commit tee Already Busy. IS SENDING OUT DOCUMENTS Speakers Will Invade Districts
 Considered Close. s
 No Work Will He wasted Where the Normal Republican Majority is Large Enough to Assume De- feat for Any Democrat.

Washington. July 22.--tspecial.)-- The work at the headquarters of the Committee in this city is progressing quite satisfactorily. The force or clerks is larger than 1t has been for some years. and several of the mem bers of the committee are on hand regularly to direct the movement cal- culated to wrest control of the next House of Representatives from the Republicans. The headquarters are located In the big new Munsey build Ing which was erected at great cost by the we'll known magazine mag nate. and the rent therefore, Is high CT than the so-calfed 'impoverished' Democracy has ever before shelled out. The managers. however, have figured that in order to get the proper service out of the employees 1t Is good investment to make them as comfortable as possible. even if it will cost a good deal more.
 Judge Griggs. of Georgia, chairman of the committee. so far has not put in a great deal of time at headquar
 ters, but Mir. Bowers the we'll known
 Mississippi Congressman. has been constantly on deck. and Is hard at 1t l night and day. Judge Griggs expects
 to be thoroughly in harness within q few days
 Sending Out Documents.
 .5ust now the committee is busy
 sending out documents that will show the voters the record of the Democrat ic party during the last session of Congress. They claim that the facts | to be presented should entitie the party to make sufficient gains to win
 in a majority of the districts in the United States. Later on the usual campaign book will be ready for dis 1 tribution. This will enable stump speakers and writers for the papers to use valuable data in explaining to the 1 people why the Democrats should be given control of the popular branch l of Congress.
 Not much has yet been done In the | way of assigning speakers who will | go Into the close districts and present | the claims of the Democrats Outside I of the efforts of the local orators and l candidates for the House themselves
 in their own districts the outside l Democrats engaged by the committed | will hardly commence their operation
 before September l.
 The committed. 1t is understood will ' not make the slightest effort to infiu- l ence the voters in any of the Maine l districts. A great deal of talk has
 been heard lately to the effect that l some of the labor leaders--notably
 Samuel Gompers. President of the American Federation of Labor--have marked Congressman Littlefield for
 slaughter. It is conceded by both
 Democrats and Republicans that if
 the laboring men of the second Maine
 district were to generally oppose the
 successor of the late Mir. Dingley that
 he would have mighty poor show at
 the pools next September.
 Democrats Watching Maine. The Democratic committee Is smart
 enough not to waste either time or
 money in trying to carry a district that has normal Republican majority | of between 5000 and 5000. As the
 Maine election takes place in Septem- Der. the Democrats will watch with
 keen interest the fight the labor or l ganizations are said to be making against the successor of a man fore
 most in putting on the statute books
 one of the most onerous tariff sched-
 ules the country has ever lived under. Politicians generally think that about
 to defeat MT. Ldttlcfield Is to instruct | their men to vote solidly for the Dem l ocratic nominee in this Maine district.
 For months labor representatives looking after legislation before Con sress let 1t be known that they were going to in this campaign oppose vigo- rously all Congressman who displeased | G0DGiCiAs far as to say that if In a district where
 there was no man running to their lik- Ing that they would bring out a candi- | date of their own. They claim that there are both Democratic and Repub- lican candidates who are objectlona- ble
 Position of LabOriteH.
 In other words their ioea Is not to make fight against a man because he
 Is a Democrat or a Republican, but because he has not upheld the rights of the laboring class. Tn short, they are going gunning for those who will not serve them. What they ac- complish in Maine in Septmeber will demonstrate whether or not Mir Com pers and his followers have as much influence at the polls as they say they have. For this reason politicians are
 watching the Maine contest with an unusual degree of interest. Should MT
 Littlefield be defeated many of the oth- CT candidates for Congress who are running in districts in which there is
 large laboring clement will look sharp for 1t will prove that Gompers and his lieutenants are really out after political scalpS this year
 The members of the Democratic com mittee realize that they have a ter rifle contest on their hands. Tn most of the big states Of the North and West the Republican party has SO gerryman- dered the various commonwealths that
 1t will require almost superhuman
 work to carry enough or these packed districts to give control to the Demo- crats However, they expect to work assiduously. and 1t begins to look. they assert, that on account of the discon- tent in many sections the Republicans are certain to lose many districts they have been fully counting on.
 Water Heating in New York.
 New Workers who are dropping into Washington every day or two report
 that the indications are the political pot will boil suriously in tho Empire State in a few weeks. Already the in- dications are that the Republicans will
 be in a mighty stew between now and the meeting of their state convention which will have to decide whether
 Governor Higgins shall have another term, or whether some new man shall
 pc brought to the fIont. From all &C., counts the venerable Senator Platt
 who the other day celebrated down at Coney Island his seventy third birth day, has taken new lease of life The former boss of
 the party up there all last spring