Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-02-28
POLITICAL GOSSIP
The Outlook for SuCCeS SIS of prOQreS.
sive Republican ffembers Of Con-
greSS at Elections This Year Is
Good, while the StandpatferS Are
Seriously Alarmed.

! SeCOuSiv Alarmed.
! WASHINGTON. Il. c. Feb. 20
Especial. )-Members of the present
congress are giving much thought
these days to the makeup Of the next
one, and standpat Republicans, who
have their ears close to the ground,
in the frankness of private conversa-
ton, admit that. whatever may be
the result of the fall elections. the
Progressive Republicans are sure to
have their numbers greatly increased
in the House and Senate after March
4 of next year. There are ffly-iiYe
members of the present House, thirty
one Republicans and twenty-four
Democrats, who hold their seats by
(majorities or pluralties of less than
$4,000, and ii is in the districts rep
resented by these men that the Pro-
tgressive Republicans hope to make
their largest gains next November.
3Attempts will be made in each of the
districts to force the nomination of
a Progressive by the Republicans and
with probable success in majority
of cases Thus, in the first Nebraska
Idistrict, now represented by John A
Mcguire, Democrat, who was
elected in 1908 by less than 900
majority. William Hayward, secre-
tary of the Republican National
COMMITTEE, has Just announced his
candidacy on platform which de-
clares against the reelection Of Can
inOn as Speaker and for amendment
iof the House rules "to the end that
the power to legislate may be taken
from the few and restored 10 the
many" Hayward Will be opposed at
the primary by eX-Representative
Pollard, a Standpatter, but reports
from Nebraska are to the effect that
the former has popular sentiment be-
hind him; and that the chances are
iall in favor of his nomination. His
|candidacy is the first of many of the
same sort sure 10 be disclosed dur
l5rg the long series of congressional
nrmaries and conventions which be-
gins next month.
The first Republican standpat
member of the House. 10 have his
claims for a denomination passed up
On c. his constitue t,r wifi lie Will
fam o. Barnard OF ,hp Sixth lndi-
ana district. The Republican nomi-
mating convention in that district
will be held early in March, and
! Barnard, whose majority iii 1908
was only l,l60, is said to be sadly
in doubt as to the prospects not only
for his denomination but also for
his subsequent reelection. There is
good reason for his anxiety If the
result of the recent by-electi0n to
choose a successor to the late David
A. De Almond in the Sixth Missouri
district be accepted as a Fair indica-
ton of the quarter from which the
political wind is blowing at this
time. The Republican candidate to
succeed De Almond made his cam
paign on an Out-and-out standpat
platform, and as a result his oppo-
nent, although comparatively new
man in politics, was chosen By a ma
| io"ity of 3,7SS or 1,62o more than
De Armond received IL 120&--a
Democratic gain of As per cent.
Should the same ratio of change man
ifcst itself in the Sixth lndiaua Dis
t,lct, Mr. Barnard, if a candidate
for reelection. will be decisively de-
feated next November. Many of his
;.Soclsates have like fate in store
Tor them, for the handicap Of Cam
nuiism hampers every standpatter
who seeks reelection, and it is o.
teayy burden
| Hardly Il week, indeed, passes that
does not afford fresh proof of the
height and force of the popula' tlde
now running against ClnnOniSiI.
! rhus Il poll recently made by the
Chicago Tribune editors in every Gle
of the Congressional districts of
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, To-
wa, Wisconsin and Minnesota are op-
posed to the reelection of Cannon as
Speaker of the next Congress. A
majority of the Republican editors
in every district of Illinois, ahe
| Speakers own state, oppose his con-
tinuing as Speaker. and even in his
home district only six of the eighteen
Republican editors who answered put
themselves on record in his favor.
| In the home district of William
! B. Mckinley, the original standpat-
| ter and the speakers principal lieu
tenant, only five republican editors
are for another term for Cannon as
speaker, while twentyfonr, or near
ly five times as many are opposed
to it. Out of 1888 Republican edi-
tors in the seven states poiled by
the Tribune, 245 expressed them
selves in favor of Cannon's re-elec-
tion, and l ,4SS were opposed to it
ratio of more than six to one. In
number of districts he has not
single supporter. A significant show
ing, and charged with an especial
meaning for the voters of the Third
District of Washington whose Re-
preventative was one of the dozen
Republicans who were endowed with
enough grit and foresight to vote
against Cannon for Speaker at the
opening of the present Congress.
The seatorial contest in the State
of Washington is causing much dis
cussion at the capital for the reason
that the ability and political integ-