The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-10-31
new FACES IN CONGRESS
DEMOCRATS NEED TO CARRY
81 DISTRICTS NEXT TUESDAY.
Districts in Forty-Two States
Will Elect ConCressmen.


Will Elect Congressman.
Congressional elections will be
held the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November next-Tuesday
of next week-in 37S districts in AZ
states.
Elections have already been held
in eight congressional districts in
three states-Oregon, Vermont and
Maine. In all of these eight dis
tricts republicans were reelected
by materially reduced majorities,
there being no increase in the re-
publican majority in any of the eight
districts.
In the four districts of Maine.
where the last congressional election
was held, the average democratic
gain was close to 5000. The same
ratio of gain throughout the coun-
try would give the house to the dem
ocrats by small majority. Even
with this remarkable general gain it
is plain what are the great odds
against which the democrats have
to contend to win the house.
The conditions in Maine, it must
be recognized, were exceptionally ia
vorable to the democrats this year.
They made the best of their chance,
but it is quite out of the question
with other adverse conditions and
factional troubles elsewhere that
they will do as we'll as they did in
the Pine Tree state. AS it is at this
stage, fair representation of the
reasonable expectations of the two
parties may thus be set down. The
republicans are prepared to lose APP
proximately a score of districts, but
they have no real apprehensions of
losing the house. Their majority is
now 112.
81 Districts to Carry the House.
The democrats, to carry the house,
must gain 81 districts. They hardly
expect to do this, although they are
justly hopeful of winning enough to
make the contest in result look like
a victory. There is also this in pros
pect of comfort for the democrats.
Never more loosely than now, nor
more generally, have party lines
held avowed party adherents. 1t
may be anticipated that demonstra-
ton of this fact in recent elections
as we'll as in elections soon to come
will for many republican members
of congress, who have hitherto
chafed almost resentfully under the
party lash, serve to absOlve them
from awesOme dread of crossing par
ty lines on questions of conviction
and local concern. That being the
case, the democrats who harbor sem
sible hopes for the future of the
house expect to be in better shape
than for the past half dozen years
to prove themselves a solid calcula-
Bile factor in legislation, and es-
pecially with view to making cam
paign capital for the presidential
year of 1908
Nominations So Far Made.
Nominations have been made by
the two parties in nearly all of the
districts in which this year there are
to be party contests. The actual
figures of the nominations as OBJ
tanned from the congressional cam
paign committees are:
Republican, PSI; democratic, 1893;
already elected, 8; total number OF
congressman, 3S6.
The excess of democratic nomina-
tions is accounted for by the fact
that in very few of the southern dis
tricts have the republicans made
nominations. In some strong repub-
lican districts in overwhelmingly re-
publican states in the north no NOM
nations have been made by the dem
ocrats.
Scanning the lists of nominations
made by the two parties it will be
seen that there is likely to be an
unusual proportion of new members
chosen. Even if all the incumbents
who have been renominated are re-
elected, there will be sixty new mem
bers. all of whom have been nomi-
mated in the place of representatives
deceased or retired.
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