The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-10-18
Who Will WIN!
The Democrats ;nl Republicans are
Fighting fo, the House.
DEMOCRATS FAVORED
One Hundred and Eighteen Districts
Are Observation-Disclosures Seats
Now Held by Republicans Are Now
in the Balance-squabbles Hunt
Republicans and Help Democrats.

Republicans and Help Democrats
The most momentuous election
the country has seen in half centu.
rv is now in progress. 1t will deter
mine whether the Republican party
the party Of national administration
lis able to keep control of the Ma.
tional House Of Representatives
Democrats of political foresight are
emphatic in their claims that the
next House will be Democratic and
! that the Hon. Champ Clark will be
the immediate successor of the Hon.
Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker.
Dissatisfaction with the Republi-
can-made tariff is causing Republi-
cans to give their support to the
Democrats in the doubtful Congress-
ional districts. of which. political ex-
Lerts claim there are 118 in the
country. There are 391 members of
the House of Representatives. In
the present House 81? Of these are
Republicans and ia Democrats. II
is generally conceded that there are
1872 districts reasonably sure for the
Republicans and 141 for the Demo
Gratis.
This leaves 11S districts doubtful
or debatable, in which the battle
for the control of the House is now
raging with more than the accus-
toned Congressional vigor. The
Democrats feel they have remark
able chance % show their. strength
in this campaign, while the Repub-
licans, satisfied in some sections over
the tariff are dissatisfied in others,
in some sections torE by party fights
and in other sections placidly con-
tent, are placed absolutely on the
defensive behind breastworks not
built of solid rock.
OF the debatable districts mention
ed, 81 are now held by. the Republi-
cans and So by Democrats. The
fact that there are so many debat-
able. Republican districts; indicates
on the surface that the Republican
party is in perilous defensive pos
ition, and that remarkable work
must be done by Republican cam
paign managers in order to save
these districts and thus save, the
House for the Administration.
Political experts in figuring upon
the chances for Democratic Hose
rely greatly for a base of operations
upon the three special Congressional
election held early in the year. The
first was in the Sixth Missouri dis
tr:ct for a successor to the late Dav-
id A. DeArmond. Mr.. DeArmond.
Democrat, had usually carried the
district by 5000. C. C. Dickinson.
Democrat, carried the district by ap-
proximately $500.
The second, pure out-and-out
tariff battle, was held in the Four
teenth Massachusetts district, where
the late William C. Lowering, Repub-
lican, was accustomed to polling a
majority of $4,000. Here Eugene
VI. Foss, Democrat, was elected by a
majority of $500, overturning as
YOU see a tremendous number Of
normal Republican votes.
The third was in the Thirty-sec-
ond New York district, where James
B. Havens, Democrat was elected to
succeed the late James B. Perkins.
Republican, whose normal majority
was more than 10000. Mr.. Havens
carried the district by majority of
about 1000. In this election, the
fight against the political prin-
ciples of Boss" Aldridge, Havens
Republican opponent than against
the tariff.
These three remarkable special
elections were responsible for the
Democrats claiming in advance the
next House Of Representatives. They
| were remarkable, too, in showing
the modern tendency of voters 10
Shift easily from one party TO an
| other, when occasions seem to de-
mand vigorous party discipline. 1t
must be rem embered, however that
in the 81 acknowledged debatable
| Republican districts, the contests
will not be as strenuous as they were