The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-01-03
Senate Seats In Next Congress.
United Press Special.

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! 1.undresd ana s,SS-sr, I,roba bly, viii re-
move from the United States Senate
% of its members-one-four OF
its total membership. The new yea"
will bring the election of new SEN
ators in more than two-thirds of the
states. 1t will witness sweeping
change in that picturesque and long
powerful adjunct of the upper house
the "Old Guard.
The democratic trend of the No
vember elections will naturally have
material bearing on the senatorial
contests. but will not be so marked
as in the House, where the demo
cratic forces change from minority
to a majority.
Two Of the states-North Dakota
and Virginia-will choose two seIA
tors each.
In North Dakota the regular ter 1
of Senator McCumber (repuhliean
and the appointive term of Senator
| Purcell tdemocrat) will expire on
| March 8. Purcell was appointed by
| a democratic governor Jas January
to fill a vacancy causea by the res
Thnmpson 1Iegislat' Elected
in November has a large republican
ma iofitv and one of it's first duties,
ard it's great pleasure win be to re-
place Purcell with republican. Rep
resentative AISLE j. Gronna, mill
tant insurgent, is assured of the pc
sition. McCumber will be reelected
without opposition.
The next Virginia legislature viii
lect two Senators, one for the term
= 4 M
other for the term beginning March
4, 1913 If Senators Martin and
Swanson, or either of them, have
opposition in their desire for reelec-
tion the matter will be fought out
in a democratic primary held in the
first week of next September
Friends of Senator Martin, whose
term ends March 3, 1913, are in
clined to the belief that there will
be no contest for his seat Whether
Swanson will have competition Is
doubtful
Friends OF Senator Lodge find
cold comfort in the news from Mass
achusetts and they gravely fear thai
| he may follow Aldrich, Hale, Scot
md Burrows, veteran leaders of the
| Senate, into retirement The mos
optimistic of the Senator's followers
speak of the situation as close OF
doubtful"
| Rhode Island in its attempt tt
| elect a successor to Senator Aldrich
has started a fight so big that 1
bulges the narrow boundaries of tn
state. H. F. Lippitt, big cottor
| manufacturer, is the choice of Al
| drich and the regular republican or
| ganization. They gave a big dinner
recently to boom Lippitt and Aldricf
travelled all the way from Washing
ton to Providence to attend
Hale's seat, as a senator from
| Maine, is the object Of a great figh
among the democrats, who captured
the legislature. The candidates in
clude Chas. A. Johnson an able
LAWYER of Waterville, who has beer
an unsuccessful candidate for gov
enor and congress; Obadiah Gard
ner, Of Rockland, who has beer
master of the state grange, an or
| ganization OF farmers that Wleld
powerful influence in Maine, anC
who was nearly elected governor
and William Pennell who was elect
ed sheriff several times, as the can
didate of the vets" in the rock
ribbed republican county in Whlci
Portland is situated.
Senator Buckley, republican, o
Connecticut, who is serving his mrs
Itcrm in the Senate, has lively rtvd
I'm his contest for reelection. For
mer governor George P Mclean ha
under way a tremendous campaign
10 land the honor and his friend
| - hA will succeed