The National tribune., 1910-04-28

spired by any fears about reelection or
even about denomination.
The crop of biennial destinations to
run is always enforced in the House
by a considerable crop of members who
fail to win denomination. 1t is plain
this early that there will be very many
of these this year. The warfare is on
in the insurgent States of the West, and
the battle will be fierce from now on in
many Western districts as to whether
insurgents or regulars shall be the NOM
inees. In Kansas the insurgents claim
that they will be able to defeat for re-
nomination every regular except one
now in the House from that State The
regulars are making almost as, strong
claim regarding their men, and it will
be for the primaries to determine.
What is true of Kansas is true of
Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin. To the East there seems to be
disposition to renominate the lncum-
bents. for all over the East in recent
years there has been a growing DISPOSE
tion to discard the old practice of rota-
ton in office, and to keep good men at
Washington in the hope of their attain
ing to influence there
The shoulder strappers of the House
are having some worries about renoml-
nation and reelection, but not to a
very marked degree. Speaker Cannon,
the House. can without question have
denomination from the 18th Illinois dis
trict. There will be talk about his de-
feat at the polls, but il will be only
talk. He is 5000 or 1000 votes to the
good The agitation will continue over
efforts to eliminate him from the Con-
greSSional equation, but Uncle Joe
has recently said that he is no gutter,
and Washington expects him to stay in
to the finish and to come back here as
a member of the 62d Congress.
Father" II. H. Bingham, of Phila-
delphia, called Father because he has
had the longest continuous service of
any member of the House, can come to
Congress as long as he lives if he
wishes. and is not losing any sleep in
this tumultuouS political year. AS much
is true of Representative Serene E.
Payne, of the Auburn IN. Y.) district,
who has been a member of the House.
now going on &c years. A Republican
stronghold of central New York has
been sending him here all those years.
and is very likely to insist on doing so
some more.
Representative John Dalzell, of Pitts
burg, who has been in the House nearly
"a years, has an enormous Republican
majority hack of him, but is not feeling
so easy as he might. There is big in
dustrial population among his constitu-
ents that has been showing considerable
restiVenesS, and in the last two cam
paigns has kept Mr.. Dalzell guessing.
He probably has been at no time in
danger of defeat, and probably is in no
such danger this year. Nevertheless
Mr.. DalZell keeps very sharp lookout
over political developments in his spe-
cial bailiwick.
Capt. Hull, of Iowa.
Representative ]. A. T. Hull, of Des
Moines, Iowa; w. A. Jones, of the East
ern Shore district of Virginia, and L.
F. Livingston, of the Atlanta (Ga.) dis
trict. have each served almost 20 years
in Congress. The last two are Demo-
Gratis not especially prominent in the
House. and will come back without not
able opposition. Representative Hull
always has fight for denomination,
and will have some insurgent troubles
in that line this year. He is Chairman
of House Military Affairs.
There are eight members of the pres
ent House who have had nine contin-
uous terms of two years each. There
are insurgents and regulars Republi-
cans and Democrats, in the number, but
the most conspicuous of them is Repre-
sentative Tawney, of Minnesota, a regu-
lar from pronounced insurgent State. |
They are fighting Mr.. Tawneys renom-
ination and will fight his reelection if
he wins in the primary. Threats that
they would get him after awhile" have
abounded in Mr. Tawney's district for
"a number of years. He is Chairman of
appropriations and the most prominent
imam in the House next to Speaker Can
mon. Experts on Minnesota politics say
1hat Mr.. Tawney is getting along pretty
SNeI, and that his constituents, as mat
tiers look now, are not likely to turn
him down this year
If ii should be a Democratic land |
slide year, of course, normal political |
calculations will count for naught, and |
some of the shoulder strappers of the |
Republican Party will go down in the |
dust of defeat. But it is pretty early |
yet to count upon a landslide as a GER |
tainty. AS a matter of fact, very few |
of the stanch organization men behind |
Speaker Cannon in the House seem to |
be in any serious trouble and if the |
next House is Republican the old Cam |
non heutenants will be marching up to |
the marble desk once more to take the |
oath of Office for another two years. |
There are always from 40 to 100 men,
bers who fail of reelection to the House
for one reason or another, but most of |
I hem are men whose names will hardly |
be missed from the clerks roster