The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-05-12
SURVEY OF NATIONAL FIELD
IN COMING POLITICAL BATTLE
Thirty Senators to Be Elected or Reelected
...Oldtimers Dropping Out Struggle
on for House Ma ority.

! ing 70 the upper legislative branch, Is
! having an uphill fight. The chances
| seem to favor him, but the prophets say
it Is not impossible Ohio will elect a
Democratic senator this year.
California a battle-ground
California already has a spirited sen
at0ri8l campaign for the choice of a
successor to Frank z. Flint. who an
/ nounced some time ago that he would
not accept second term. New jersey
| Republicans are in the throes Of a con
troversv as to whether John kean shall
be reelected. and there is said 10 be
a bare chance ola Democratic lagisla
ture there. Senator Robert NJ. La Fol
lette of Wisconsin is also in the midst
of hot campaign for reelection, with
prospect that he will win.
One Of the most tempestuOus of all
the senatorial campaigns already under
way is in West Virginia, where that
picturesque old character, Senator Ma
than Bay Scott. IS fighting for q new
lease of political life. He has strong
opposition, especially from a fellow
townsman, Representative ". P. Hub
bard Of Wheeling. Senator William
Warner Of Missouri. Republican,, is
fighting for another term, but the pros
poets are unfavorable, because it seems
that Missouri viii be Democratic, it
being an off year.
Some Certainties-
The senators who are likely to get
back to Washington 10 serve SIX years
more without having had a smart con-
test at home can almost lie counted on
the fingers Of one hand. That is worthy
Of note as indicating the unsettled
political conditions of the northern
States For out of the class of thirty
senators 10 be elected for terms be
ginning March 4 nex-, only five are
from strictly southern States-TeXas,
Virginia. Tennessee, Mississippi and
Florida. Only six of that class of thirty
senators are Democrats, and Of the
twenty-four Republicans all except
about a half-dozen have more or less
formidable opposition.
Whether Senator Bulkeiey. of Con
necticut, is to pull through again
without a Republican opponent is to
be determined. Senator Clarence d.
Clark, Of Wyoming, however, is one
of the very few who can now read
his title clear Wyoming is not poster
ed with insurgents and Senator Clark,
chairman Of the judiciary committee,
is so strongly entrenched and so pOpu-
lar that no one cares to contest for
senatorial h0nors with him. If the
little legislature Of little Delaware,
now Democratic on joint ballot by a
ma iority Of one. becomes Republican
next year. as it probably viii, Senator
Henry A. Du Point can undoubtedly re-
turn to the senate Senator Porter J.
McCumber of North Dakota, now very
i'll in a Washington hospital, can return
without much trouble.
When Money Counts.
Senator George S Nixon, of Nevada,
one of the richest men in the senate,
can probably return as a Republican
from the Democratic State of Nevada.
He has no opposition from within his
own party and little from the Demo
Gratis. Only rich men come to the sen
ate from Nevada and it is significant
that a rich Democrat and rich Re
publican sit together in the senate from
that State and are able to win re-
election almost to surety.
Senator George r. Oliver, of Penn
svlyana, and Senator Carroll s. Page,
Of Vermont. are two men almost alb
sOlutely carefree with regard to an
other term in the senate. Their constit-
uents are satisfied and so 0verwhelm,
Inglv Republican that there is no oe-
casion to give the legislature a sec,
ond thought. To both of them a re-
election is little more than a formal
ity. Senator George Sutherland. OF
Utah, a very able lawyer who is win
ming a good reputation in congress,
likewise has things his own way with
regard to another term and, if he chose.
could 90 away on a SIX months vaea-
ton without worrying. But he is the
exception.
Eliminating those who retire volun.
tarily and involuntarily and those who
are unoppOsed, there are some fifteen
senators already hustling for all they
are worth to advance their political
interests and they will work hard up to
the day when the members Of their
legislature are electd
House Probabilities.
While all Washington is commenting
about the prospective changes in the
personnel of the senate, little atten-
| zion is being paid to the house in that
regard. Every two years goodly
number of representatives.. Democrats
and Republicans, get tired and decline
| to run for another term. That holds
| true especially this year. -Four Penn
| sylVania Republicans have already an
| nouuced that they viii not stand for
another term, but they are all from
! Tockribbed Republican districts and
their decisions can hardly have been
| inspired by any fears about reelection,
| or even about denomination.
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