The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-05
Battles Have Centered in the
 Doubtful Districts
ALL EYES ARE ON NEW YORK
Republicans Admit Democrats Will Gain In New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
 Illinois, Missouri and Iowa.

Washington, November 4.-Wtth election day but few hours away, the political situation has crystalized to an extent that permits survey of the field, limited, however, to the points where the battle has waged the flercest between the two dominant parties for control of the Six tieth Congress and for state supremacy.
 The managers of both the republican and democratic campaign agree that the democrats are going to make gains over their present representation in Congress. Both are also agreed as to the states where these gains are to come from and both are directing the energies of the closing hours of the campaign to these battlefelds
 New York Center of Interest.
 In New York, where the state cam paign has eelipsed all else the vote for congressman will be disturbed by local conditions to such an extent that the returns Tuesday night will furnish per haps the most interesting reading for those at the headquarters of both con- gressional committees. A landslide for either candidate for governor would carry with it unexpected results as to the con- gressional ticket. It Is conceded on nor- nal basis that the democrats will make gains in this state
 Pennsylvania furnishes another inter- esting situation with the governorship fight between Lewis Emery, democrat, and Lincoln party candidate, and former Mayor Stuart of Philadelphia, republican nominee Many republican and demo-
 int n the western part of the state, and the campaigning has been lively
 Representative Dalzell of Pittsburg is having opposition which some time ago assumed serious proportions in Dr. R. J.. Black, former mayor of McKeesport.
 Contests in the South.
 In the south the interesting points are in Texas, Mississippi and Tennessee. In Texas a campaign against the reelection 10 the United States Senate of Joseph w.. Bailey is making things lively. M. M. Crane is regarded as the leader of the anti-Baiey forces. In Mississippi Repre- sentative Williams the democratic floor leader of the House, is making race for the Senate against Governor Varda- man.
  the governorship fight between H. Clay Evans, republican, and Representative M. R. Patterson, democrat. The republicans in the state have hopes of electing more than the two members to Congress they now have
 The districts where Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor has made a fight are also points of interest. The labor leader paid his compliments last to Representative Mudd of Maryland and democrats predict the defeat of MT. Mudd.
 In Ohio, Representative James Ken nedy, representing the old Mckinley dis trict has received a call from MT Com pers, who supported John c. Wety, the democratic nominee. The democrats now holding but one district in Ohio, are mak- Ing vigorous contests in half dozen others.
 MT. Gompers has been also heard from in the fight in Chicago, where the repub- llcans now have all ten of the congress sional districts. Both sides agree that this solid delegation will be broken into and that Representative Rainey. now the only democrat from Illinois in the House, will have company
 Missouri Democrats Hopeful.
 In Missouri the democrats have great hope of regaining the five districts lost to them in the tidal wave of two years ago.
 In Idaho the republicans raised the is sue of Flaw and order in support of the states prosecutions of officers of the miners federation for complicty in the murder of former Governor Steuenberg, while Senator Dubois, who is leading the democratic fight, declares Mormonism the issue.
 In Utah the Mormon church is said to be supporting the republican nominee for Congress.
 w D. Haywood. one of the miners fed eration officials, now a prisoner in Idaho is the socialist party candidate for gov ernor of Colorado.
 Democrats are confidently looking for gains in Indiana and Iowa.
 In Massa chusetts the governorship fight eclipses all else. Curtis Guild. Jr., repub- lican is opposed by John B. Moran. noni- mated by the democrats. prohibitionists and Independence league.
 Summed up. the states in which both sides seem agreed that democratic gains may be made. are:
 New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Maryland