The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-11-05
TO
RULE CONGRESS
MAJORITY IN NEXT HOUSE WILL
BE OVER FIFTY.
JOE CANNON REELECTED
Speaker Wins Out in Home District
After Hot Fisht-other Prorni-
nent Leaders Are Returned
to Seats.

SnCdSO, NOV. I'll lie next ndtlUnd l
house of representatives will be Re-
publican again, according to the most
reliable returns received, the majority
in the house ranging between 53 and
5S Returns from the southern states
show that the Democrats returned
their usual Democratic representatives
while the northern and New England
states are strongly Republican. The
membership of the house is 391, and
the majority necessary for control
is 1856.
Gains were made by the Repub-
leans in North Carolina, Iowa and
New York The Democrats gained one
district in Illinois, the Eighth, where
Thomas Gallagher was elected to sue
coed Congressman McGavin. Republ
licans gain district in Pennsylvania
heretofore held By Democrats. H.
Speaker Cannon was reelected by
a majority of from 5000 to 10000. Con.
gressmel Hepburn, Hull, Dalzell,
Payne and other leaders of national
importance who had hard fights were
all successful.
The districts on which the Demo-
Gratis relied to Increase their present
strength have in-most instances, re.
turned Republicans .s'tsa ....'sssar1a s,-r'as
In Chicago all the present congress
men were reelected except in the case
of Gallagher, who defeated Kyscki
(Rep).
The next IlliH0is state legislature
will be Republican again. The great
est surprise in the state fight came in
the defeat of State Senator Orville F.
Berry for reelection in the Thirty-sec
ond district. He was defeated by
James F. Gibson DEM.
Berry was head of the senate COM
bine" and was recognized as the sue
cessor of Daniel Campbell, as the lead
er after Campbell's retirement to &C.
cept the postmastership of Chicago.
Cannon Reelected.
Danville, H., Nov. 4.-Joseph G.
Cannon has been reelected to con-
gress by plurality considerably above
the normal Returns are still incom-
obtained to show that he will probably
have a plurality of at least 10000.
This is estimated to be in the different
counties in his district as follows:
Vermilion, 5000; Iroquois, 1900: Kan,
kakee 1900; Edgar, 700; Clark, 200;
been something OF surprise even to
the friends of Mr.. Cannon. The fight
made against him by various church
organizations. The Anti-Saloon League
and organized labor, coupled with the
fact that the Democrats had for the
first time since 1863 a complete or,
ganization in this district, led the Re,
publicans to believe that Mr.. Cannon
plurality would not be over 5000. In
the heaviest union labor sections, how
ever, Cannon received as large a vote
as he ever received before, and in
some of them he made decided gains
The speaker expressed himself as ex
tremely gratified over the vote of con
| lidence given him by his constituents
Hepburn Reelected in Iowa.
Des Moines, Ia, Nov. 4.-The indi
cations are that the entire delegation
in congress will be Republican, a gain
of one over two years ago. There is q
| close race in the Sixth district be
tween Hamilton. present incumbent
DEM, and Kendall (Rep.). Both
sides are claiming the district. In the
Second and First districts Dawson
and Kennedy (Rep) are elected by
safe pluralities. In the Eighth the
fight against Hepburn did not sue
coed and he is reelected. Hull in the
Seventh district was elected, by by
reduced plurality. Gov. A, B. Cum
minis probably carried the Republican
senatorial primary over Maj J. F
Lacey by plurality Of 10000 TO so,
900. a tremendous gain from last June
when he was defeated by Allison by
II, 900.
The Indications are that Cummings
has defeated Lacey for the Unitet
States senatorship.
Payne to introduce New Tariff Bill.
Auburn, n. T.. Nov. 4.--The election
OF Serene +. Payne, chairman OF th'