Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-20
NEXT HOUSE WILL 6E DEMOCRATIC
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NAorti4NolO2 CSpt. l5. HIS statement was given out at Demo cratic congressional committee head quarters today:
 The republicans have a majority in the present congress of fifty-three, which Mir. Mckinley admits will be reduced to ten or twelve. This is a claim that the next house will be democratic. Since this political prophet gave out his vision an cleo ton in Maine has come off and the republicans were routed, horse. foot and dragons. Instead of winning the four congressman as they had been doing for thirty years. they lost two of them-lost the legislature and lost the governor. Maine went hell bent for the democrats and de- stroyed McKinley's prominence as a prophet abroad, just as his constitu | ents destroyed his usefulness at home in California.
 | "In Vermont the republicans lost l5.OOO votes and in Maine from 15,000 to S0,0o0. In New Hampshire the in surgents carried everything before them. and these events cannot fail to have a marked influence on the rest of the country. Taft carried Maine by approximately 31,000. while the democratic nominee, Plaisted. was elected governor this year by about 5000 votes.
 Prof. Josiah H. Shinn, statisticaE of the democratic congressional com mittee. says: The present wide
 spread dissatisfaction with republi- can management is gauged very properly by these upheavals in Yer. mont, New Hampshire and Maine. Fully 10000 dissatisfied republicans have either changed their votes. or have abstained from voting In Maine there was a full vote and from 7500 to 15,oo0 republicans changed their party allegiance.
 "The same ratio of change ap piled to Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts would sweep tker, into the democratic column. Rhode Island up to two years ago was rep resented in the lower house of con gress by Daniel Granger. but upon his death the place went to a repub lican.
 | On the Anxious Seat. Connecticut is normally a demo cratic state, and this year no one ot her five republican members feel safe, and the probabilities are tha. three of them will lose their jobs The New England states have twenty. eight congressman and the result of the Maine vote foreshadows a gain of ten democratic congressman from New England alone. Maine will send a democratic senator to the United States senate and the political as tuteness of Senator Hale was never shown to better advantage than when he declined to be a candidate l for reelection. By the same logfs Senator Aldriche's retirement may be explained and a Democratic senator looked for from little Rhode Island Even Senator Lodge is more attent i've to his fences than ever before. The republicans in the present congress have a majority of fifty. three members and the democrats need to gain but twenty-seyen votes to control the house.
 The Maine elections auger gain of ten from New England alone leaving seventeen to be furnished by the rest of the country. The late elections in New England foreshadow 8 change of approximately 100000 votes for the whole country and war rant the claim for democratic galr of from threequarters 70 million O. votes, and a majority in the house ranging from twenty-five, the lowest estimate, to 10S-an estimate based On the 50 per cent. gain already made in the state of Maine. It is generally conceded that the space cc cupied by republicans in the Sixty. second congress will be less thar baIf u-bat tbay nnuy nccuny"