The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-14
LLOYD WORKS HARD
CAMPAIGN
Abr THE CoNGREssIoN- A COMMITTEE.
Party " Chairman Believes Ills EIas Good Chance to Win fControl of the Next


 fControl of the Next
 Washi3 House.
 Everytl 3ngton. July 13.-(speciaL)-- headqr Aing Is working smoothly at the gressi Aarters of the Democratic Con city. konai Campaign Committee in this and There Is larger force of men an6| women employed than is usual. vo fl literature calculated to acquaint Is iters with the issues in this contest
 being sent out in vast quantities. The campaign book is one of the best, if not the best. that has ever been i compiled. The selection of speeches was made not only with care but with view of enabling local speakers and writers to get facts bearing upon all questions that have come up Tn Con- gress within the past several years. There will certainly be no lack of ma l terial to acquaint the voters with the record of the leading men of each of the great political parties. Representative Lloyd of Missouri, chairman of the committee, Is setting the people under him a good example by putting a great many hours a day at the headquarters. He hardly seems to know what fatigue is.. and often is to be found in his office late at night thinking up some scheme by which a district here and a district there can be snatched from the control of the Republicans
 MT. Lloyd, like most of the Demo- crats who keep run of things. realize . at the start that the Democrats are going to have a hard fight to carry a majority of the districts unless an un- exeected land-slide should come in fa- vorAlpf his party. It is generally con cededssthat if the Republicans win the Presidency the House of Representa- tives is pretty apt to be controlled by them also. The Republicans have one decided advantage in the way districts in many of the big states are carved out For nearly fifteen years the Re- publicans have been favored by par tisan gerrymandering in New York Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachu- setts. Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Michigan, Kansas and Wisconsin.
 In the last Congress there was a lone Democrat from Ohio. It was the same way in Ohio and other states that used to send up a goodly number of Demo- crats. In the old days Ohio managed to elect majority of Democrats to Congress when that party had control of the legislature and could do a little gerrymandering on the other side. Missouri is about the only one of the Western States in which there is a gerrymander decidedly to the advan- tage of Democrats. Tn that respect the Democrats have about equalled the Republicans in some of the states re- 4erred to above
 This year Mir. Lloyd figured that great many of the Republican candi- dates will so down to defeat on ac- count of labor troubles and factional quarrels within the Republican ranks. Already there is much trouble of this sort for the Republicans in the North west.
 The laborites have plucked off one prominent Republican in Iowa who prevented action on the eight hour and other bills which the labor organiza- tions urged congress to pass. He is Representative Connor He is a mem Der of the House Committee on Labor and was chairman of subcommittee to which was referred a number of measures. He was charged with hav- ing stuffed the bills in his pocket and refused to have them considered It is said that the railroad employees in Iowa agreed to settle the hash of Con- gressman Connor, and they did 1t in fne shape.
 sentative Hull, for so many years in the lower branch of Congress and the well known chairman of the House Affairs Committee. will be in a triangular light owing to a row in the Republican camp over the primary. number of Iowa Republicans admit that MT. Hull will be beaten to a pulp this year.
 The labor organization people de- clare that they have a number of others on their list who have been marked for slaughter both at the pri- martes and at the polls. It is a fact that they are right after Republicans and do not apear to be incensed at any of the Democrats. That is doubt less due to the fact that the Republi- cans are in charge of all the branches of the government and are held re- sponsible for the refusal to pass the bills demanded by the labor organiza- tions.
 Owing to the increase in the salary of the lawmakers there is now a de- cided tendency for an improvement in the general personnel of Congression- al nominees in the Northern and West ern States. The sum of $7.500 a year Is much more tempting than the old allowance of only $5,000. The number of rich men in the House Is small. and of late years millionaires among the senators have become scarcer and scarcer. In reality there never have been as many millionaires in the Sen ate as Is generally believed. At pres ent there are not over twelve or If. teen. And quite a number of the sena- tors are what might be termed poor men, especially the average one from the South.
 Alfred J. stofer.
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