The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-30
Republicans COncede That the Outlook Is Very
 Gloomy for the Party
EVEN THE SENATE NAY
 BECOME DEMOCRATIC
While the Democrats May Have . Sweeping Victory Disaster Is Pre- dicted After the Winners
 Assume Control
BY RALPH M. .wHITEsIpE

Washington, October 29.-(Special.)- Washington practically lives by politics. Whatever may be the situation elsewhere. there is no sign of apathy here. As election day draws nearer the interest in the results on November grow stronger. It is the general opinion that this is a democratic year and that the next Congress will be democratic by safe majority.
 For instance, John L. Kennedy. d life long republican, who was the right hand man of MT. Grovesnor of Ohio when that statesman was the recognized chief of all the political prognosticators, says:
 one need not be particularly gifted as a political seer to foresee an overwhelm- ing democratic majority in the House Of Representatives of the Sixty-second Congress. On the contrary, one who can not peer into the future and behold such majority must be singularly deficient as student of political conditions and events, past and present. l confidently anticipate political cataclysm which will sweep into the next House a democratic majority approxmating, if not exceed ing that of the Fifty-second Congress. In that Congress the democratic majority vas few votes under 150.
 "A democratic House in the next Con
 
 lots on November to become assured. But another political change. which at this time is in the minds Of but few men. is not at all improbable. One who would now prophecy a democratic Sen ate in the Sixty-second Congress would not be tolerated by republicans and scarcely credited by democrats Let us consider the situation:
 Situation in the Senate
 
 republicans, standpatters and progress sives, and B democrats Take l3 from the republicans and add that number to the democrats and the Senate would stand 46 republicans and 46 democrats. To the number necessary to tie the Senate the democrats have already added one-a senator from Maine.
 Tn the class of senators whose terms expire in 1911 there are 24 republicans and six democrats.
 Maine having given assurance that she will send a democratic senator, a gain of 12 more will tie the Senate Take the Is states Of Indiana Connecticut. Na- braska, Montana, New York Ohio. Della ware, California, New Jersey Masachu- setts. North Dakota. West Virginia and Missouri, and who shall deny that the prospect that they will elect democratic legislatures next month is not infinitely greater now than was the prospect last July ana August that Maine would do such thing. If the democrats carry the legislatures of those states it will assure them control of the Senate. Then they will have reserve states-Rhode Island Michigan, Minnesota, Wyoming and Utah-any one of which last July and Au- gust would probably have been picked to send a democrat to the Senate in prefer ence to Maine. Political avalanches have turned up some strange results in the past. And in the light of the result in Maine and the temper of the people, d democratic Senate is far from being ani impossibility or even an improbability. Boomerang In Tariff with an overwhelming majority in the House and safe majority in the Senate. what would the democrats do? Why, go to work on tariff bill, of course. Then their troubles would begin. With an avowed free trader in the speakers chair a tariff for revenue with incidental pro- lection, democratic chairman of the ways and means committee, out and out pro- tectionists from Louisiana and Florida, General Hancock protectionists from all most every state in the Union, and some protectionsts from New York and other northern states, could they hope to pre- sent to President Taft a tariff bill which, to the minds of many democrats would not spell party perfidy and party dis honor?
 Tt Is not improbable that the political cataclysm which is impending will prove to be one of the worst things that could happen to the democratic party nation ally"
 Views of Bourne Then comes Senator Jonathan Bourne of oregon, who is not particularly hopeful of republican success this year. but who nevertheless Is an optimist on general re- suits. He says:
 ''The situation is full of promises. Out of 1t undoubtedly will be evolved much of good to the nation. The elections will be barren of sensations from q partisan sense, in my opinion. but will show sub stantially that the people of the country are aroused in opposition to bosses and bossism and to the party machine. They are thinking and acting for themselves. We shall not have machine-made House. whether the republicans or the democrats control It. And every progress sve elected, regardless of his party af- filiation, will be a substantial gain to tho cause of popular government.
 "The people generally have awakened to the fact that real popular government is to be secured only through such d sys- tenn as Oregon successfully inaugurated, embracing the initiative and referendum, direct nomination, honest primaries and the recall with a corrupt practices law that cannot be evaded. Under such system the public servant is directly ac- countable to the people and cannot se- cure office or seat in Congress through the use of money. Wherever popular government is made the issue, success is assured in advance. and in every state in the union today it is becoming a larger and more formidable issue
 Lind's Refusal
 "No more significant development in this campaign has occurred than the re- fusal of John Lind, a former democratic governor of Minnesota, to become can didate against Senator Clapp. and his pa- triotic statement to the people of Min nesota that Clapp has served them we'll and should be returned In Wisconsin the people are rallying to the support of LaFollette, regardless of party. This is true of Cummins in Iowa, as 1t was of the lamented Deliver, and hope and be- lieve 1t Is true of Beveridge in Indiana. Every man in public life who has the courage to speak and vote his sentiments and refuses to be controlled by the party whip. is progressive and deserves ana will receive support Not all these are to be classed as yet with the champions |