Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-20
CONGRESS IS UPSET
Havens' Victory Charms
Democrats. !
Mr.. RUCKER RUBS IT IN
Asks If House Has Received News
From Rochester. /
SPEAKER WOULD LAUGH LAST
Adjournment Likely to Come Early
to Permit Members to Go Home
and Mend Fences. /
SPEAKER WOULD LAUGH LAST

With mock seriousness. Representative
Fucker Of Missouri. a democrat. arose
TO make parliamentary inquiry soon
after the House convened today.
Has the House yet heard that the
thirty-second district of New York had
an election yesterday" asked Mr..
Rucker.
When the democratic demonstration
preeipitated py the suggestion that a
democrat had been elected to fiii the
vacancy caused by the death of re-
publican member had ceased, Speaker
| Cannon with equal gravity replied:
answering the parliamentary inquiry,
the chair observes that one side OF the
House and the gentleman from Missouri
seem to be enthusiastic
Then, raising his voice, the Speaker
added, prophetically:
He laughs best who laughs last"
II was then the turn OF the republicans
to laugh and applaud. The democrats,
good-naturedly. Joined in the laughter.
Wheelhorses in Danger.
Great Scott. Why. If this thing keeps
up. even John DalzeIl and Gen. Harry
Bingham amt safe
Thus calculated representative from a
rock-ribbed republican district today. in
discussing returns from the Rochester
election.
But hold, he added: what Is a
rock ribbed republican district, and ara
there any now?"
Whereat he shook his head sadly and
ambled on his way.
And there was more truth than
poetry in his reflections as evidenced
by the sentiments voiced by republicans
in the House today in private con-
versation over the returns.
a more downcast bunch of politicians
it would be hard to find than the rank
and file of the republicans in the lower
branch Of Congress.
rs this the handwriting. on the
waIl?" they were asking one another.
Practically all are up for renomina-
ton and reelection. The fate Of Cam
didate Aidridge comes home TO them
pointedly.
8 mister significance attaches to the
crushing defeat in the Rochester dis
t;ilt nom the FAC, that the republicans
Were depending upon their machine orr
ganization to pull them through. l1
Iaiied. This, their expected staff of sup
port in the coming campaign, turned out
to be but broken reed in this instance.
Failure of Machine AppaIIs.
The republican leaders are not only
surprised but dismayed by the result in
Rochester. They confidently counted on
their wonderful and time-tried organiza-
ton in that district to overcome the de-
fection in republican ranks occasioned
by the moral crusade against their candi-
date.
''When that fails what is there n fall
back on?" the republicans were asking to-
day. How can the rising tide be STEM
med?'
To be sure, 1t was claimed by the repub-
republican congressional campaign COM
mittee kept hands off, and did not send
speeches or speakers into the District.
But it was not regarded as a local fight
by the democrats, who injected national
issues into the campaign.
Nd one can analyze the result suffi-
cfently TO determine the proportion in
which the result was affected by the
national issues or the local moral issue
raised against Aldridge. But the bald
fact stands ont that the tariff and the
high cost of living were made issues. the
republican party was charged with re-
sponsibility and the verdict Of the voters.
it is said. was in part based upon those
considerations. -..c
EARLY Adjournment Likely.
One result of the landslide In the Roch.
ester district. it was said today, Is likely
to be an early adjournment Of Congress,
to allow members to get back into their
districts and Lx up their fences.
Let us get out Of here and look after
our districts, was the frantic cry Of
many republicans at the Capitol today.
The prospect of being held in Washing.
ton until the middle OF June or the first
OF July was appalling to many.
Night sessions OF the House will b.
more frequent In the future, Il IL said.
In other ways the business will be exc
pedited.
National Leaders Comment !.