Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-02
THE ELECTION Or
REPRESENTATIVES
Citizens Of Forty.two States win
Be Called Upon
tuesday.
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TO EXPRESS THEIR CHOICE.
Three states Have Already Decided
Who Shall Go to the slxtieth
Congress.
TO EXPRESS THEIR CHOICE.

special Correspondence.
Washington, Oct. 2s--The electors In
forty-two states will be called upon
on the Tuesday after the first Monday
IN November this year which comes
on Nov, to express their choice for
members OF the national house of rep
fesentatiyes. Three states have al
ready chosen their representatives for
the sixtieth Congress- Oregon, ver-
mont and Maine, and In these states
the Republican candidates have been
elected. With these states out OF the
running there are still 37S congressional
districts In which the accredited citt-
zenship In these districts win have a
right to express their preference for the
congressional nominees.
Washington IL the seat of the Dem
oofatic congressional committee, the
hepuDlicans having elected to put their
headquarters IN New York with
branch headquarters IN Chicago. From
. Democratic viewpoint, as outlined by
Judge Griggs, OF Georgia, chairman OF
the congressional committee, the fight
is almost won for the Democrats, and
he sees Democratic majority IN the
lower house In the Sixtleth Congress-.
chairman sherman, Vice Chairman
Tawney and the wheelhOrse OF the Re-
publican party, Charles II. Grosvenor,
DO not ooncede the claims of MIR.
GriEgs, but on the contrary are con-
seryatively looking to 30 Republican
majority In the Sixtieth Congress. The
Republicans have IN the present Fifty
ninth Congress ia majority They are
prepared TO lose approximately 20 dis
tricts, which would mean a change Of
40 The Democrats to carry the house
must gain 5s districts, and this gain
they expect to make In Missouri, Penn
syivania, New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut
RESULT is IN DOUBT.
There is no denying the fact that In
New York and Pennsylvania local con-
dltlons are OF such a character that 1t
is impossible to forecast the result.
Party lines are completely broken In
those two states, and the leaders Of
both parties have found It impossible
TO make fair aud honest canvass Of
the situation, The farmers of Penn
syiyania are learning what II cost TO
erect the new state capitol building in
Harrisburg. They have harmed that
the building cost 100000 In round
numbers, and that the interior fur
nlshlngs cost sa.000000 and IN conse-
quence the yeomanry OF the Keystone
state are up In arms ready TO vote 10
turn down any one who has the brand
OF regular Republican on his back.
In New York state. William Randolph
Hearst, the Independence league can
didate, and endorsed by the Democrats,
IL creating new conditions and attract-
ing 10 him voting strength which
heretofore has been aligned with one
or the other OF the political parties.
To such an extent Is Hearst breaking
into the old parties that the number
Of his votes cannot be approximately
forecasted. One thing Is certain,
Hearst has got the Republicans scared
IN New York state, and between now
and election day you may expect TO see
a campaign rlvalling the days when
'rllden and Hayes We're the candidates
or their respective parties for president
In the Empire state.
The issues are we'll defined. and the
Republicans and thousands OF Demo-
Gratis will make every effort to elm
mate the young man who believed
he was presidential timber before he
had held public Office OF any kind,
The Hearst influence IN New York will
necessarily dominate the congressional
situation In Greater New York, and
in that particular there may be several
seats lost In New York City to the
Republicans. Scanning the list OF
nominations made by the two parties
for Congress, 1t Is seen that there is
likely to be chosen an unusually large
proportion OF new representatives IN
the sixtieth Congress. Even II all the
incumbents who have been nominate
ed are reelected there viii be so new
members, all Of whom have been NOM
mated In the place Of present mem
bcrs or Of those who have died since
the last election.
CAPTAIN HOBSON.
In the case OF Alabama, which is
first on the alphabetical list Of states,
Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, re-
firing after distinguished service In
the navy. viii take the place Of that
very tried old Democrat, John II,
Bankhead. In the Arkansas delega-
tion John T. Little will be missed be-
cause OF his nomination for governor
and viii be succeeded by William b.
Cravens OF Fort Smith. In Colorado
there IN considerable friction, but II
seems safe to predict the election OF
the Republican candidates Georgia
Will send solid Democratic deega-
ton Assuming there viii be no change
IN the delegation from Illinois. there
viii no hut one new member from that