Arizona republican., 1910-11-08
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, NOV. s, 1910.
Today's Elections


 comfort from the elections of today than has fallen to its lot since 1892, when Cleveland swept the country by a phenomenal majority.
 While the republicans may retain control of the house of representa- tives, it will be by a slender major ity at best. And if the recent con- gressional elections-the special cleo tions in New York and Massachu- setts, and the regular election in Maine-are a criterion, the democrats will have the next house.
 Although One-third of the full mem bership of the senate will be elected by legislatures chosen today, it is not possible for the republicans to lose control in the senate, except by such a landslide as would astonish the whole country and which not even the most sanguine democrats expect.
 But the democrats will make some important gains in the senate. The legislature already elected in Maine will choose a democrat to succeed Senator Hale. Senator Warner of Missouri will certainly be succeeded by a democrat. Among the republi- can senators who face the possibility of defeat are: Beveridge of Indiana; Carter of Montana; Depew of New York; Dick of Ohio; Lodge of Massa- chusetts; Nixon of Nevada, and Suth- erland of Utah. Flint of California, and Piles of Washington are not can didates for reelection, but the prOba- bilities favor republicans to succeed them. The democrats hope to beat Scott of West Virginia, but the repub- licans are confident of holding the legislature of that state.
 The gubernatorial campaigns which have attracted the greatest attention are of course those of New York and Ohio. California and New Jersey also | have arrested national attention, but the election of Johnson, republican, in California, and Wilson, democrat, in New Jersey, is altogether probable.
 So far as the national campaign of 1912 is concerned, the elections for governor in Ohio and New York are the most important. If Governor liar l mon is reelected in Ohio, his victory !! will place him clearly in the lead for | the democratic nomination for presi- | dent.
 In New York the contest between | Stimson, republican, and Dix, demo- 1 crat, is in reality fight between the | Roosevelt and anti Roosevelt forces. 1 The argument is advanced by both the l democratic organization and the anti | Roosevelt element in the republican | party, that the election of Stimson | will mean the supremacy of Roosevelt | in national politics and his nomination | for the presidency in 1912. For this l reason the democrats are making a | supreme effort to elect Dix. They |
  Colonel Roosevelt has upon the masses, and they frankly admit that | unless he is eliminated" now he will | have too much influence upon demo- cratic voters in the future. Adding the democratic leaders in their opposition to Roosevelt and Stimson are the pow erful financial interests in New York, with the great newspapers that they control.
 It may easily develop, however, that the defeat of Stimson today will not eliminate" Colonel Roosevelt It may, on the contrary, have just the oppo- site effect. No close friend of the former president believes that he has had, or now has, any ambition to be president again. But the colonel is very human, and the tremendous eff fort to destroy him as a political fac tor may have precisely the result of forcing him into politics on his own behalf