Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-19
Special to Review.)

WASHINGTON D. C.. April 1s.- Danger signals are being displayed by Republican leaders who fear the
 loss of the next House of Representa
 tives. The prompter of the fear is the negro anti-Taft sentiment. With
 Taft the choice at Chicago this con
 dition will mean great trouble for the Republicans especially in Ohio, Hi noise, Indiana and Maryland.
 In the last congressional election there were ninety members of whom fifty-five were Republicans elected by less than 5000 majority. Of these Re
 publicans nineteen were elected by
 less than a thousand voters majority
 twenty-two by less than 2,000 major.
 ity and fourteen by less than three thousand. In many of these GistrIcIs the colored vote is the balance of
 power. The power of the colored
 vote is enormous and if it continues
 hostile to the Secretary with his llvIil. ination realized it will mean the fiercest kind of a struggle to retain
 control of the House of Represents tives.
 Taking Ohio for instance there are two districts. those of General Ke1Ter and Albert Douglas where the negro
 vote is greater than the majority these two Republicans received two years. ago. General Keller won by majority of 227T while the colored vote in. ais district IS 1928. In the latter district Douglas won by 320 while the colorei vote is 115S.
 Illinois will furnish more trouble. Pleasant T. Chapman who won by 327 majority has 140S colored voters. Joseph V. Graf won by 223 and he has 317 colored men who exercise the right of suffrage. In Chicago, Charles McGavin, who won by S5 has large number of colored constitu- ents who will follow the lead of their own race.
 Indiana will be no exception. Three Republicans, Chaney, Holiday and Gilhams won out by less than thou sand majority Chaney has three times as many negro voters as he had majority. Holiday has twice as many as his majority and Gilhams has majority of only $50 with 40 negro voters. The switching d these coiored votes in Gilhams' district would reduce his majority to TO. Eos lGT alas three llulcS lllC hC6iV fONCo as he showed majority. Jesse Over street has twice the number of negro voters as he has majority and the district vacant now owing to the re cent death of Representative Brick has more negro voters than Brick had majority.
 Representative Kennedy and Daw- son of Iowa both won ou in the last election by small majorities and the colored vote in both districts is equal to twice their majority. In Kansas Scott has twice the number of negro voters as his majority. In Kentucky the negro vote is especially strong. Jones, Bennett and Langley all won out by a nose in the last congress ional race and the negro vote in the James district is 7530, with only 699 for the Congressman. Ben nett boiled 97I majority and the ne gro voters number 3516. Langley won by 47O with 2S94 negro voters.
 In Maryland, Jackson, Mudd and Pearre have swarms of negro con in fact practically the en- tire Republican vote is colored. In Missouri Ellis has four times the Of negro voters as he had majority. In New Jersey Wood and Fowler have to depend solely upon the colored vote for their victory. Tn West Virginia Hubbard, Sturgis and Gaines owe their success to the negro voters who support them With the negro out of the Republican camp these three men would go down to- defeat.
 The negro situation is alarming to the men who flight for the control of the House. The success of the coming administration, with Taft in the White House and the Democrats In possession of the House of Rep would be nil. The Taft are being acquainted with the conditions that exist and it means 3 joining of forces of the Taft boom CTS and the allies to bring about har- nony again with the colored voters in the states that lie north of the Mason and Dixon Line.
 It's heads I win, tails you lose, with Senator Elkins of West Virginia. No matter how the Presidential game goes he will come out on top. IT the War Secretary happens to be the choice at Chicago Elkins will smile and admit ''I done it."