The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-19
Primary Results Over Coun-
 try Encourage Democrats HOUSE MAJORITY TO BE 1O1
D <. t Primaries Have Nearly All
 7 a Held-Democrats Count on : 100 Working Majority in
 the House
BY WATTERsoN sTEALEY

Washington September 1S.-(Special.) J.
 lost of the primaries to nominate party Candidates for Congress have been held. The result has given the republicans the worst case of "blues" in the history of the party From California to Maine the news has been almost uniformally favor able to the democrats or the republican insurgents, and the adherents of Speaker Cannon have fallen right and left in the slaughter of the "reactionaries"
 Few important primaries remain to be held, but they will be watched with ex- treme interest. The "standpat" organiza- ton in control of the republican campaign headquarters is making every effort to save the necks of it's followers in the re- maining primaries, as they did in the district of Congressman Charles N Fow- Ter of New Jersey.
 Fowler's onslaught upon Cannon at the opening of the last session of Con gress aroused the ire and profanity of the speaker, and he and his followers have been trying to "get" Fowler ever since.
 Senator Keane, whose own seat is shaky, and who declined to stand as candidate before the primaries, but who will be candidate before the legislature for reelection. used his powerful infiu- ence in New Jersey against Fowler, as did also Representative Loudenslager of New Jersey, secretary of the republican congressional campaign committee. In Minnesota, Oregon and Massachu- setts the "standpatters' will endeavor to and secure the nomination of "standpat- ters" in districts where primaries are yet to be held.
 During the coming week the principal primaries will be held September 20 in Minnesota and September 524 In Oregon The only other state primaries to be held during the present month are those only state which makes any nominations | in October Is New York.
 Several insurgenti republicans of the House belong to the Minnesota delega- ton, but one of the staunchest stand patters' of them all, James A. Tawney, chairman of the House committee on appropriations and a close follower of Cannon, comes up for renomination. The insurgent members from Minnesota ex- pect to be renominated and are hoping for the selection of an insurgent in place of Tawney.
 The announcement of Representative Henry s. Boutell of Illinois, defeated for renomination by a progressive republican, that he will run as an independent can didate. pleases the democrats. They con- sider Boutell a target and If he runs ir- dependently the democrats believe they will be able to carry the Boutell district and add to the majority they expect to obtain in the next Congress. There are now six democrats from Illinois. This the democrats expect to increase to nine when the result Is announced on November g. The calculation of the democratic lead CTS is that the democrats will have a working majority of nearly 100 in the House of Representatives. not including the republican insurgents with whom they co-operated at the last session
 The way they are sizing up the next House of Representatives. on the basis of the aspect as 1t seems to appear to- day is as follows: