Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-05
CONGRESSIONAL OUTLOOK.
Republicans Claim They Will Have
Safe Majority in the House.

Washington, Nov. i.-With but one
full day intervening before the country
will elect the Goth Congress, there is de-
cidcdly Il general feeling of high pres
sure in the political atmosphere.
The expert prOgnoSticators have
stopped analyzins local conditions.
They have made their final claims COW
ering the whole area. are sitting tight
and waiting for Tuesday.
The Republican claim emanating
from the headquarters of the Republi-
| can Congressional Campaign committee
| in New York. is this:
"The Republicans will have a ma
| jority of 50 in the next House of Rep
rescntatives.
The analysis of this claim from the
same source is:
Sure Republican districts. 90; sure
! Democratic districts, 800: doubtful but
| probably Republican, 81: doubtful but
prOba bly, Democratic, 49,
| The Democratic Congressional Cam
paign committee with headquarters in
| Washington has figured out 81 Demo-
| cratic gains over its present represent
| tation in the House. Chairman Griggs
thinks this claim is rather too conserv-
| ative. In analyzing the claim to show
where the gains are expected, Mr..
| GriEgS is quoted as saying:
1.-THE claim if Democratic gain of
| 10 III New York is safe. The claim of
| one gain each in Massachusetts, North
Carolina. Kentucky. Montana. Della
! ware, Rhode Island, Connecticut. Idaho
and Virginia is good. The claim of a
| gain of six in Pennsylvania is too con-
scrvative. The same may be said Of n
| claim of a gain of six in Illinois. We
will gain eight in Missouri. Concessions
| are made to us of five or six in Ohio,
but we will do better than that. The
| computation that put us down for only
| one in Indiana is in error. New Jersey
is to be counted on for a gain of three,
while gains will be made in Iowa, Ne
braska and California.
| Should the Democratic prediction OF
a gain of G7 he realized that party
would have Il majority Of 30 in the 6Utll
| Congress.
While from Il national standpoint
| the congressional election is regarded
as emphatically important in some 10
! calities it has been thrown entirely in
| the background by state politics.
| Twcnty-three states elect their gov
errors Tuesday. 20 elect legislators. 10
MINOR state officers. oklahoma Will
| pass upon her state constitution. Ari-
iona and New Mexico will decide the
question of joint statehood.
New York state with its fight be-
tween Hughes and Hearst for the gov
crnorship has furnished the spectacu
lar feature of the campaign for the en-
| tire county. PehapS the most notable
! feature Of the campaign in all Of lis
ramiticatiOnS has the extent to which
the personality of President Roosevelt
has been borught forward
Support the President was the
battle cry of the Republicans in every
congressional district
We can support him better than
you was the defiant answer of som"
of the Democracy.
All but two of his cabinet officers
have taken the stump to further the
Presidents desires for a Republican
Congress.
In New York state the President was
personally represented by Secretary
Root in a speech remarkable in char
acter.