The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-23
NV FACES IN
NEXT CONGRESS
c,,fa0es and Misfortunes
Of Politics.
MAYDO
Niu Make Gains and
..lutc TO Control the
not Making BOastfui
Eut Are Receiving
Reports.
8DNA ~ j. PENCE.

..Urublc Reports.
...UD}IAS j. PENCE.
D.. g.. October 20
elections Will be held
.-I"y after the first Mon
.....Uer next in 378 districts
states. Elections have
held in eight congress
....- in the three States Of
..tmpnt and Maine. In ali
.... districts Republicans were,
.....ut by materially reduced
aH.rro being no increase il
.......uan majority in my Of the
... four districts of Maine,
... Inst congressional election
the .BVerage Democratic
..-. r.5-r 10 5000. The same
-alu throughout the country
..... .l-. the House to the Demo-
... 5. . small majority. This would
..r-, .auN the great odds against
..... ..- Democrats have to cOntenC
=. ....r. The conditions in Maine.
..... u. admitted, were exception
...uHaUIr to the Democrats
...... they failed to follow up his
.Ht I'ftiILIIIS bIIt utSIJtI dLcIItSS
....... Republican cauSe. Party lines
,... held Dartisans more loosely than
~ This uncertainty is the hope OF
.. .u..unruts in this campaign, anC
. ...-.. the occasion of much uneasi-
- +. Republican circles. With then
..+ .rof Il2. the Republicans have
,... To feel fairly comfortable
H,.. .tuit that they viii lose many
....H.I- who were swept in office OF
lie "a. +r-l -. acrn I1,s
IT,. the belief that there are
.. ..H e. fe Republican districts tC
.-a. continued control Of power
~.. Democrats at Congressional
..~...tarter5 are not making any
#..-.tuI claims. but they are receiving
..u.. tucuuruging reports from dis
..t- i'm the East and Middle West,
.a encourages them to believe
..t they have more than a fighting
...a TO capture the House.
figures as to Nominations.
Nominations have been made by the
t.t HuIjics in nearly all of the dis
".s- u which Thu year thore are tC
j. party contests. The actual figures
.r ordinations as obtained from tho
occasional campaign committees
G.uab.ican. PSI; Democratic, 333;
....j. elected. s.; total number OF
" a-l-~SInen, $50.
- THEE excess of Democratic nominal
'. .-"s accounted for by the fact that
j.. Very few of the Southern districts
..Ee the. Republicans made nominal
.u., In. some strong Republican dis
MIot- in Northern States that are
..rWHelmiugly Republican, the Dem
".raJ@ have made no nominations.
#nuju the next ten days nominations
. lie made in % or 80 districts
..t rt1t Will probably close the lists.
Many New Members.
Scanning the lists of nominations
M the TWO parties it Will be seen that
.e.' is likely to be an unusual pro
..EiHu Of new members chosen. Even
II all the incumbentS who have been
.. minated are reelected. there Will
sixty new members, all of whom
..Ne been nominated in the place OF
tto~>eutatiVeS deceased or not re
E.ot,l Alabama there are to be two
.." members. Captain Richmond
...| -oH-HobsOn, who, retiring from 4
"--. .gui-hed service in the aVy en-
.a politics. after a second trial de
".-t John H. Bankhead for the
i'll. 'eIdtic nomination in the sixth
alabama district. sydney j. Bowie, OF
-. fourth district. having determined
FL" .e0Ine at the end of his present
#'3u. the Democrats of the district
.... dominated to be his successor
~. !. a'raig.
Ha,'e viii. be one change in the
..e.. -as delegation. John c. Little,
. '.- fourth district, was nominated
. .."E-ruor of the State, and the
" r'tS have nominated to succeed
1874" Mn. =. CraVens. of Fort smith,
|..~Qming the Republicans will car
~ .... #Irtt Colorado districts as tneN
..' tHn years ago, TWO new members
""H-@ w. Cooke and Warren "
- .o.t-wiH succeed Frank f
.."s~ ana Hershel NJ. Hogg, respec-
*r-fJ is to have a new member
... tn" first district, which was fcl
YEARS represented by the lat
...'..z r.. Ester. who was last spring
."....l' hurt in an accident in q
.g)"n apartment house. j. w
"'tnoJ was nominated for the rAsi
.. term in the F~ifty-ninth Con
aud for Che full term in tn<
.".N ~f"TgrCSs. Charles G.. Edwards
...r man from Savannah, was
opposing there will be no change II
..srty complexion Of the IllinOi!
-'.pr. Il new member is to appear
..aCc Of the late Robert r
The district is heavily Repub'
and the nomination has bee
i1 Frank Q. LOWden. recently
..'@je for the Republican nOmi
for Governor. Both partit:
. practically the same nominal
Two years ago. If the Demo
gain districts normally Demo
they will contribute as man.
. mbers to the neXt Congress.
a.rl promises, according to tn
.'a'tQns and allowing the district
. ."t. as they.did in 1904, to maxi
"#o change. \. w. Gilbert, Re
#. r~etiIes, and no nomination
let. been made by either party 70.
"""..@Sor.
. three Changes i'm Kentucky.
49,. . changes are certain in tn
"Nr delegation. Ben JOhnsO1
" dominated by the Democrat
"#-d The veteran, DaVid II
iI the Fourth district; w. I
.a.' to succeed South Trimble i
.. .*..''th district, and Harvey Heir
"'"! George G. Gilbert in tn
district.
..la viii send Il new mar j
. - F'aVrOt. Democrat, succeed
. "'n1hl NJ. Robertson, who Ia
-. ..".rulE years a member of III
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