The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-04-18
INTEREST N FIGHT
FOR CONGRESS

AtOSAOoeO1s l. AplA
records for political activity in this
section went by the board today in
the wind-up of the campaign in the
Thirty-second congressional district.
Tomorrow the voters will decide whe-
Their George w. Aldridge, republican,
or James s. Ravens, democrat, shall
be the successor of the late James
B. Perkins in the national house of
representatives.
This will be the third election of
member of congress since the pass
age of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law,
and unusual interest attaches to the
result of the contest In February
the democrats had larger majority
than usual in electing candidate to
succeed the late d. A. De Almond in
the Sixth Missouri district, and last
month, for the first time they car
ried the Fourteenth Massachusetts
district, electing Eugene n. Foss as
|
ering. Should they be successful in
tomorrow election in this district
the democrats throughout the coun-
try will naturally feel much encour-
aged in their hopes to gain control
of the next congress.
| Mr. Aldridge, the republican NOM
inee, is a former superintendent Of
| public work and state railroad COM
missioner, and for twenty years has
/ been the leader of the republican
party in Monroe county. He is a ma
tive of Rochester and has been a life
long resident of this city. In his con-
| test for the republican nomination
his opponents endeavored to use
! against him the fact that he received
81 900 from the fire insurance COM
panies doing business in this state,
following the passage of bill in
which the fire companies were in
terested. Mr.. Aldridge admitted TAX
ing the money and declared that his
action was proper. He stated that
the check was not personal gift,
but was used for the benefit of the
republican party in Monroe county
The charges evidently carried little
weight with the convention, for Mr..
| Aldridge was given the unanimous
nomination and his friends believe
that his personal popularity will win
the election tomorrow.
Mr.. Ravens, the democratic NOM
inee, was opposed for the nomination
on the ground that he had not been
hard and fast party voter. He
bolted Bryan in 1896 and openly sup
ported Hughes against Hearst in
1906. In the Hill-Cleveland clash
he stood valiantly by Cleveland and
came often to the front in that cause.
He attended as a delegate the ma
tional convention that placed Judge
Alton B. Parker in. nomination for
the presidency.
To win in the election tomorrow
Mr.. Ravens must overcome a normal
republican plurality of imposing size.
Representative Perkins carried the
district in 1906 by majority OF
nearly 1000, which is assumed to
be normal for the republicans in a
congressional contest, though in the
presidential campaign of 1908 Mr.
Perkins had over 10000 plurality
and 1909 majority. In seeking to
overcome that lead the democrats
are counting not only on the insur-
ance disclosures but also on the in
fluences that are believed to be work
ing elsewhere in the country agains,
the republicans, such as discomfort
with the tariff, the cutlery against
the high cost of living and the wide.
spread feeling shown in recent town
elections throughout New York, that
a political change is due.