The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-12-28
THE FATE OF THE ELECTION IN
1912 SWINGS IN BALANCE.
Political Crisis Has Been Reached

The Argument Is on as to the Proper
Persons to Put in the Best Jobs.
The Old and the New Democratic
congressman Both Want the Best
Pickings. Split May Occur.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Unless
some of the democratic leaders in
the house show a disposition to be
more liberal with the eastern and
northern states in the distribution
of positions in the next congress
there may be split in the ranks,
according to the belief of some mem
bers here
The fact that Representative
Livingstone of Georgia wants to be
candidate for one of the good
places, either clerk or sergeant-at-
arms, and that three other southern
ers, j. j. Sinnott of Virginia, w. F.
Dunbar of Georgia, and former con-
gresham Trimble of Kentucky, are
in the fight for door-keeper, post
master and clerk respectively leaves
the democrats from other sections
of the country very little prospect
of getting anything but crumbs.
Viewed from one standpoint it is
claimed that the men from4he south
should be rewarded with the places
that the republicans will vacate' at
the end of the coming session, be-
cause the south is the democratic
stronghold; but, on the other hand,
the democrats who are coming from
New York, Indiana, Ohio and other
states which were formerly repre-
sented by republican majorities take
the position that this is not right.
They claim that the delegations from
the south viii always be democratic,
except in few instances when two or
three republicans get into congress
for short terms, and that. on the
other hand, the next congress would
have remained republican except for
the turn of votes north of Mason and
Dixon's line. Without their aid. it
| is claimed, the republicans would
still control the situation.
This is the situation here now. So
far as can be learned none of the
men from the southern states who
are candidates for the positions men
toned are thinking for moment of
dividing up with the democrats of
other sections. They are making a
! fight, not only with the old mem
bers who will hold over into the six
ty-second congress, but they are also
waging vigorous contest through
| their friends to reach those members
who will come in later.
The same thing holds good with
respect to the committee places that
, are to be parceled out at the begin
ming of the next congress. The old
democrats, those for instance who
have been in harness many years.
are not disposed to see a general
breaking up of the committees as at
present constituted Some of them
see in the shake-up the possibility
of some of them being placed low
down in the list. They claim that
the new men, with no congressional
experience, should not be given prec-
edence over those who already have
showed their ability. The incoming
democrats, as in the case of the posi-
lions to be filled, declare that they
are as much entitled to recognition
on the committees as the old men
because they are responsible for
making the next house democratic.
Thus the matter stands. No one
here seems to know what is going to
be done and probably nothing tangi-
he viii be decided upon until after
there has been a caucus of all the
members who are to sit in the next
congress. That will bring the mat
/ ter to a focus
One member of the New York del