Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-18
PLACED At DIS.
ADVANTAGE IN coNGREssioN-
Al ELECTIONS.
DEMOCRATS CLAIM MAJORITY
OF THIRTY IN NEXT HOUSE
Point to Recent Elections as Evidence
Of Trend Of Public Sentiment-Me-
kinIey Claims Republican Majority
Will Not B eMateriaIIy Reduced -
Other Political Gossip.
Especial Correspondence

Washington, May 1s-Democrats are
enthusiastically hopeful; republicans
are desperately determined. This. ex-
presses briefly the situation in the
opposing congressional campaign COM
mittees in Washington. The fight for
the control of the next house of rep
resentatives is already under way and
from now until election day next No
vember each side will strive to take
advantage of every political situation.
Millions OF pages of campaign liter
ature are being turned off the printing
presses and distributed broadcast thru
out the country. The democrats are
on the offensive and the republicans.
frankly admitting that theirs is an ed
ucational campaign, are on the defen-
sive.
The general situation turnout the
country has not yet shaped itself suf-
ficiently to permit an intelligent sur
vey or even to warrant a guess at the
outcome of the election next Novem-
Der, according to prominent republic
can leaders.
Point to Recent Elections.
oCiiioeI dtlS 1Sd0SIS, Ch LILO cSiiSA
hand, declare that the country has
already given some very remarkable
demonstrations of the state of mind
aihcant Of this contention the results
in the special elections in Missouri.
Massachusetts, and New York. The
Sixth Missouri district, to be sure. Is a
strong democratic district, but demo-
I'd rf l,aY
passing notice that Representa- tive'
late Judge DeArmond by a majority
twice as great as any majority given
DeArmond, popular as he was.
The Fourteenth district in Massa-
chusetts, where Eugene n. Foss es
tablished the precedent of being the
only democrat ever elected from that
fication to the democrats and is being
referred to as indicative of the state Of
mind Of the country at large.
More important and significant in the
minds Of the democrats was the cleo
ton in the Thirty-Second Congression-
al district of New York Of James S.
Ravens. to succeed the late James
Breck Perkins George Aldridge, repub
lican boss, was supposed to hold this
district in the hollow Of his hand but
the democrats prevailed Each OF
these special elections is regarded by
James T. Lloyd, chairman of the demo-
cratic congressional committee. as the
forerunner Of the success which he
is confident will attend the democratic
party next fall Mr.. Lloyd is looking to
the north. to the insurgent country in
the middle west and to the far west for
the gains which will give his party
control of the house In the Sixty-sec-
ond congress.
Where Democrats Expect to Gain Il.
1--WE expect to secure our gains" said
Mr.. Lloyd today, "in the next congress
from the following states: Maine, Mas
sachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina.
Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa. Kansas. Oklahoma,
Nebraska, Montana and California.
AT the present time we expect ma
jority Of between thirty and forty
members. The republican majority at
present is forty-two, and indications
now are that this majority will be very
nearly reversed"
While Mr.. Lloyd's statement is far
from specific as to the number of rep
resentatives he expects to gain in the
states named and with regard to the
republicans now in the house whom he
hopes to displace, the republican con-
gressional committee is, to say the
least, extremely tactiturn.
Il believe" said Chairman McKin-
ley, Of the republican congressional
campaign committee, that the repub-
lican majority in the next congress will
be 35 or &c. I do not think the condi-
tions thruout the country have yet
shaped themselves sufficiently to jus
tify more elaborate statement"