The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-10
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gressional committee sent a large
amount of money into his district, and
Postmaster General Hitchcock gave the
! fight his personal attention. Another
member of President Taft's cabinet
Secretary Chas. Magic of the depart
ment of commerce and labor-stumped
the district on behalf of the republic
can candidate. as did Governor Hadley
of Missouri (republican). and half
dozen members of congress.
| All of the republican speakers took
the position of President Taft as out
mona, Mimi, that the new tariff law
was one of the best measures of the
i kind ever enacted.
/ Rep. James T. Lloyd of Missouri, the
chairman of the national democratic
congressional committee, was warmly
congratulated by his colleagues on
Dickinsons victory. as he had put in
/ much hard work in the district. Minor
ity Leader Champ Clark and Senator
Stone of Missouri, are also given cred
it, as they made a number of speeches
in which they discussed the new tariff
law from the democratic viewpoint.
| Dickinson's swollen majority is the
third shock that has been administered
4 70 tho rapuhIicap StandpattarS within
a comparatively short time, or since
the passage Of the Payne -Aldrich-
/ Smoot bill. The first surprise came
with the announcement that the old
time majority of $4,000 of Governor
Draper of Massachusetts (republican),
had been cut to beggarly 5000 in an
election in which the new tariff law
had been practically the only issue.
| The second bit of discouraging news
to reach republican headquarters was
the announcement of the result of the
straw ballot taken among the life
members of the Success magazine. OF
the republicans voting on the question
| do you approve of the position of
Senator Aldrich in the recent tariff
| legislation?' but 517 voted yes, while
| 6,313 voted no" In answer to the
question DO you approve of the po-
sition of President Taft in the recent
| tariff legislation?" 2,1O2 republicans
voted yes" and $3.50 republicans
"no."
! Should the propOrtionate rate of in
crease made by the democrats in the
sixth Missouri district be maintained
| in other contested districts in the con-
gressionaI elections this fall the demo-
;-crats would have a majority of more
| than 100 in the next house There are
| in the present house approximately
sixty republicans who had majorities
of 1905 of less than $500. OF these
there were thirty-one whose majoritles
were less than 1000, so that by keep
ing the members which they now have
the democrats have only to change
! about 5000 votes. properly distributes
in these thilty-one districts, to wipe
out the present republican majority In
the house and have a majority of 10
or 20 of their own.
There are 10 republicans whose ma
iorities are 1000 or less, some of them
under 100, and these in themselves. II
they can be overturned. are almost
enough to turn the scale in favor OF the
democrats.
The pnedulum has been slowly but
gradually swinging back to the dem
ocratic party since 1904. Commencing
with the Spanish Amerlcan war III
1898 public sentiment began to DRIFT
toward the republicans. reaching It's |
climax in 1904, when there was a ma
iority of ia in the house Of repre-
sentatives Then the swing or the
pendulum changed. In 1906 the repup- !
lican majority in the house had been
raduoad to x And today it is but A!