The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-14
Present Indications Point to Congressional Landslide
 / This Fall
RESULT IN NEW ENGLAND
 FORECASTS BIG CHANGES
Aldrich and Hale Saw the Tempest Coming and Fled Before the Storm Overlook Them Bu, Others
 Are Defeated
BY wATTERsoN sTEALEY

Washington, September s.-(special)- This statement was given out at demo- cratic congressional committees head quarters today:
 '"rhe republicans have a majority in the present Congress of 53, which MT. McKinlay admits will be reduced to 10 or l2. This is a virtual admission of the democratic claim that the next House will be democratic. Since this political prophet gave out his vision an election in Maine has come off and the republi- cans were routed. horse, foot and dra- goons. Instead of winning the four con- gressmen as they had been doing for 30 years. they lost two of them lost the legislature and lost the governor. Maine went hell-bent for the democrats and de- | stroyed McKinlay's prominence as prophet abroad, just as his constituents destroyed his usefulness at home in Cal l ifornia.
 Losses of Republicans In Vermont the republicans lost 15,O0O votes and in Maine from 15.000 to 30O00. In New Hampshire the insurgents car ried everything before them and these events cannot fail to have marked in-
 
 carried Maine by approximately SlOO0, while the democratic nominee, Plaisted. was elected governor this year by about 5000 votes. Prof. Josiah H. Shinn, statis- tician of the democratic congressional committed, says: The present wide spread dissatisfaction with republican management is gauged very properly by l these upheavals In Vermont, New Hamp- shire and Maine. Fully 4O.0Oo dissatisfied republicans have either changed their votes or have abstained from voting. In Maine there was full vote and from 7500 to 15.oOo republicans changed their party
 allegiance. The same ratio of change ap- piled to Rhode Island, Connecticut and
 Massachusetts would sweep them into the democratic column.
 Rhode Island up to two years ago was
 represented in the lower House of Con
 sress by Daniel Granger. but upon his
 death the place went to a republican, i Connecticut is normally democratic | state, and this year no one of her five republican members feels safe, and the probabilities are that three of them will lose their jobs The New England states have 2S congressman, and the result of the Maine vote foreshadows a gain of ten democratic congressman from New England alone.
 Democrat to Succeed Hale Maine will send a democratic senator to the United States Senate and the po- | litical astuteness of Senator Hale was never shown to better advantage than
 when he declined to be candidate for
 reelection. By the same logic Senator Aldrich's retirement may be explained, and democratic senator looked for | from little Rhode Island Even Senator l Lodge is more attentive to his fences 1 than ever before.
 "The republicans in the present con- | gress have a majority of 53 members and the democrats need to gain but
 27 votes to control the House The Maine elections augur a gain of 10 from New England alone, leaving r | to be furnished by the rest of the l country.
 "The late elections in New England foreshadow a change of approximate | ly 100000 votes for the whole country and warrant the claim for democratic gain of from three-quarters to a mill lion of votes, and a majority in the House ranging from 25. the lowest es- l timate, to 108, an estimate based on | the 50 per cent gain already made in l the state of Maine.
 | Tt Is generally conceded that the space occupied by republicans In the | Sixty second Congress will be less than l half what they now occupy Glorious Political News | Washington. September 13-"The most glorious political news flashed over the American network of tele- graph wires was the intelligence which | they bore this morning that Maine rock ribbed. republican Maine-had gone democratic in a landslide against the republican party"
 Representative Webb of North Caro- | lima made this comment today in dis cussing the Maine election. Think of it, the last democratic sen ator to grace this state was elected in | 1S47, 63 years ago-James W. Brad | bury. Maine has not elected a demo- | crtaic congressman In the lower House | since 1855, more than half a century ago.
 | "She has not elected a democratic governor in 30 years. But now she | Is to have a democratic governor, democratic United States senator, and | the national House will be democratic. Maine has 16 counties and yesterday | the democrats carried IS of these re- publican strongholds and gained democratic legislature by a safe work ing majority.
 Truly the news is glorious. and presages a tremendous majority in the next House. With Champ Clark | speaker and the election of a demo- cratic President in 1912, the republican party in the House or in the nation | is routed, worn out, beaten and scat tered. The bottom has dropped out. | There are. only two spots in the | country that can now be called re- publican. They are Vermont and Phil- adelphia. The democrats will have so many votes in the coming election" | concluded MT. Webb, that the country will get tired counting them.' Two Earthquake Shocks | Salinas, Cal. September 13.-Two sharp earthouake shocks were felt hera