The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-12-08
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.aFe t1e a9yantzge.
EeyTraD1lcaly r8e ~ deuoora-c
te-aoe's ~ the next oOgae viii 1e
cllde1 ~ foIlows
Frou thirteen so..1ern states. .o-
clgd.og Keut1cky and MARYLAND. 10.
frVl ,he MIDDLE wet. which .oclydee
West virginia, Oalo, Indiana. III
nols, Michigan and Wisconsin. forty
en- from ne west, including al the
democratic repreae, ta-lOn beyODd z &
Mississippi rlyer, cwenty-seyen. and
from the east, including Penngylyau-
IA, New York, New Jersey and New
England fOrty-six. Thus. outside o,
me south, there Will be I1g democrats
40 against 10 from that s4ction.
But II the representation from Mis-
soDr and Oklahoma, which frequer,,-
ly are referred % a. Z part q -
eoUth, Is included, there will t4 Iz7
democrats from that section az
against l02 from other paris Of TIE
country. With an exception tere and
there all ri these 102 deuocra.s are
of short service IN the house and in
/ consequence their influence will be
/ correspOndingly Iese.
II the present house here are e,y.
ty-one committees, and Il .s proDs ie
that there will be similar number
In the next house. Of these sixty.
one committees the ranking demo
Gratis On fOrty-ODe u them are from
the south, and five others are from
Missouri. With the excep,ic1 Of M.
Fitzgerald Of New yOrk. Who will he
the ranking democrlt On apytOpria-
tons. Mr. Sulzer, ~ military affairs.
kaiDey oi Illinois, On labor HUgbeg
~ New Jersey On Pa fc railrgs IL
and Barnard " Indian On reform in
The civil service, ever o.he- iupor.
'Hnt committee has st the head Of
the minority list a s1uthorr demo
Z 81. II, IN the selsH,ioa - chair
ilar Of these cDmmitteeg IN the ncxt
congress- the rule Of seniority Is fol-
lowed. all ne important committees
with the exception u the five mem
TONED and few Of the less imDor-
'ant ones, will be presided over by
southern democrats.
further reason for this condition
II found in the fart that democratic
representation In the sixtieth con
grcss-tha. elected in the big repub-
Hcan year Of 1JO5-was almost wiped
out from the north with the eycep-
ton Of few members from New
York and less than a score Of others
scattered throughout the country.
This VIII give me southern members
a great advantage now that the dem
ocrats have obtained a majority Of
the house.
There Is another somewhat eing,I-
lar fact In connection with the demo
cratic victory. Despite the demo
cratic majority Of about sixty, II the
election Of the next president should
/ by chance be thrown into the house
! o. representatives the republicans
/ would BE- IN position to elect their
. ''''''A"'s 'Hb'I lUt fOUkiluIIDU
/ whore no candidate has sufficient
votes In the electoral college to elect
the house Of representatives de-
cidcs, each state voting as a unit. or
the fortyeix states, the republicans
viii control the delegations from
twenty-five and the democrats from
twenty-one
The fact that the republicans, by
controlling by one a majority Of the
states In the election OF a president
Is Important in view OF the talk
which frequently Is heard OF the or
ganlzation OF a third party in tine TO
entor the field in 1912. II Roosevelt
should head third party and carry
enough western states TO throw the