The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-11-07


Congressman as may be elected on the
Republican ticket-and that means almost
the whole delegatlon-will be standpat
from top to bottom, whatever their pre-
lenses in this campaign may be. The best
inform. ton / was able to gather In Mich
.gan was that the Detroit district, now
represented by Edwin DENLY, was prae-
tically sure TO send a Democrat to Con-
gTess, and that the Sixth district now
represented by Samuel W. Smith (Rep.),
Is doubtful. Indeed, Michigan is as thor
oughly welded to its Republican idols as
Pennsylvania or Vermont,
Indiana and Ohio.
Indiana and Ohio, In these States, of
all tie Middle West, the political fires
have burned hercest and with most rea-
son. Indiana has the young Demosthenes
.of Republicanism. Albert ]. Beverage.
to deal with; Ohio has Nestor OF
Democracy, Gov. Judson Harmon. seek
ing a reelection, with higher political
honors in the near future if il shall be
won. Indiana has to-day eleven Demo-
Gratis and two Republican Congressman.
The Republicans win have TO fight hard
to keep their two, for the steel district at
Gary, long held by r. ID. Crumpaeker for
that party, shows signs Of revolt. Re
publlcs, as the phrase goes, were ever
ungl ateful. 1t would seem that the Re
publican party. If not ungrateful itself,
is likely TO suffer from the ingratitude
of the great steel interests in the
Crumpacker district, which he and that
party have served long and we'll Among
the Democratic districts the only one in
serious doubt is that now held by Henry
A. Barnhart. who in the last election had
but go votes 10 the good. Yet Demo
cratic authorities claim he is entirely safe
this year
However. I'm Indiana the real matter of
national interest is the fight Of Beverdge
for his return 10 the United State. SEN
ate This is likely 10 be one OF the
closest contests in the whole country
Mr.. Beveridge is a man with multitude
OF frierds and perhaps more enemies.
He is opposed by John w. Kern, who
has no enemies. who IS universally liked.
but who lacks somewhat the fighting dis
position OF his brilliant young adversary.
All the same, Kern Is giving Beveridge a
fight which worries the latter exceed
ingiy. If Beveridge is the more ora
torical on the stump. Kern is the keener
and the more logical.
Panegyric Is Lost.
When a press agent betrayed Beyerldge
into a panegyric on Mary and the vine
covered cottage" Kern seized upon the
phrase, told what was taxed In that
happy little home. and rang the changes
on the somewhat sentimental metaphor
uatil the unhappy Beveridge looks on a
vine-covered cottage with the aversion
with which he would regard a ticket 10
political Oblivion. The tight between the
two men is q close and a square one. II
affords the nearest approach we have
this year to an election OF Senators by
direct vote OF the people. To sum II up,
/ should say that Beveridge has more
strength in the nation outside or In
diana. while Kern has the greater
strength where il Is needed--at home.
In Ohio the one fight is for and against
Harmon. Elected two years ago by 1900
il is my sincere conviction that he will
be reelected this year BY double that
plurality. Had / written this three weeks
ago. / would have put his plurality az
$1,000 10 60O00. but the Republicans, with
the magnificent quality Of rallying on
their Vineyard line they always show,
have made a gallant and uphill fight
and given the governor and his friends
Just cause for worry.
Effect on Presidency.
In earlier letters / have covered the
bearing Of the Ohio election on Presiden-
tial politics and there is no necessity now
TO say more than that, If elected. Har-
mon will be the foremost candidate FOR
the Democratic Presidential nomination
II so nominated will the Republicans put
up against him Taft. who, with all the
power OF the Presidency, was unable "a
beat him for governor or will they look
farther East for a more spectacular can
didate and help the Democracy to become
conservative by themselves picking out
the foremost living radical?
As for the Congressional delegation
from Ohio, I expect 10 see the Democrats
win three new districts and hold all their
old ones. AS 10 the senatorship, IN,
only thing certain is that If the Repub-
licans carry the legislature Senator Dick
viii not be re-elected-which is in one
way pity. for he is the only man who
has come out into the open with a nom
ination won at the primaries.
In closing this necessarily brief review
Of more than six weeks travel through
ten States. I would say that while the
Democrats viii gain a Congressional seal
here and there west OF Ohio. il is q
the East they must look for the heavy
gains that viii give them the twenty-four
new seats necessary 10 control Congress
Missouri only of the Western States viii
show great Democratic gains On the
other hand, had not the Republicans
even belatedly, hearkened 20 the voices
of those insurgents who cried last win
ter in the Congressional wilderness, the
/ Republican minority in the Sixty-second
Congress would have been so small that
even the deliberate Champ Clark could
have counted it at a glance.
Copyright 1910 by Joseph B. Bowles)