The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-07
ttSINIPLE LFE''
FOR SENATORS
Thirty-one Members Of the U. S
Senate Vacate their Seats for
their Successors

of 81 senators will expire the third
day of next March and it has al
ready been settled that a number
of them will not be returned.
Primary elections have sealed the
fate Of some and others have been
eliminated by one process or an
other. The strength Of the move
ment against those tendencies in
government and in affairs that the
president has termed "reactionary"
has weakened the hold of a num-
ber of senators on their offices.
How strong this sentiment is
and how effectively it is working
was shown in the Iowa result
| few weeks ago. In this Sen. Will
lam B. Allison, the oldest member
Of the senate in point cf service
and one Of its strongest members,
escaped defeat by a remarkably
narrow margin. The campaign
argument against him was that he
was affiliated with the forces of re-
action. Though Senator Allison
was running for his seventh conse-
cutiye term and ordinarily would
have been elected without opposi-
ton, the feeling that he had not
stood for progressive legislation as
he should have done made the
campaign against him possible.
The latest senator to 60 down in
defeat is Henry G. Hansbrough of
North Dakota, who has been beat
en- in the primaries of his state.
Senator Hansbrough's enemies
raised the cry against him unjust
ly as many thought, Of being a
corporation candidate, and Thom-
as F. Marshall led in the balloting.
He is chai rman of the senate pub
lie lands committee and has taken
an important part in senate affairs
It is one of the strangest features
! Of Senator Hansbrough's turning
down by his state that a study Of
his votes show he has almost in
variably voted against the wishes
of the senate republican leaders in
railroad matters and matters where
corporation questions were invol-
we'd. Yet his enemies waged a
campaign against him on the
ground that he was railroad and
corporation man and succeeded in
beating him.
Senator Fulton Of Oregon has
been beaten in the primaries and
Governor George E. Chamberlain,
a democrat, is expected to succeed
him. Senator Alfred B. Kittredge
Of South Dakota was recently Eeat-
en- in the primaries by Governor
Coe I. Crawford. Both these SEN
ators were freely charged with be-
ing against the Roosevelt policies
and in sympathy with the'.reaction-
aries" Their defeat is due to the.
impression made on the voters that
they had no use for the progress
i've movements that have taken a
strong hold in many parts Of the
country, especially in the west.
Senator Thomas G. Platt of New
York will, Of course, drop out of
politics March 8, 1909. His state
is tired of him and anxious to see
him eliminated.
Senator Levi Ankeny Of Wash
ington is another senator whose
term will end next March who may
not return. He is strongly oppos-
ed by Representative Wesley -.
Jones. The fight is hard one
and the outcome not certain, Jones
however, is a strong man and has
the better Of the situation up to-
date.
Senator Joseph B. Foraker Of
Ohio is not likely to serve in the
senate after next March. It is
true there is much talk about
peace in Ohio and about the Taft
forces dropping the movement TO