The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-18
SENATE VACANCIES ARE TO
Be NUMEROUS NEXT YEAR
Retirement of Many Republicans May Lead to Demo-
cratic Control of the Upper Branch of the National
Legislaure-Present Majority Is But Slight.

that it will be very close and that the
Progressives will have a weight far
out of proportion to their numbers.
1t will be recalled that Senator John
Fairfield Dryden was finally beaten
because single Republican independ
ent refused flatly to stand for him.
New Jersey is used to that sort of
close fights and has every prospect
of one this time
In Illinois, Judge Lawrence Y. Sher-
man took the Republican nomination
away from Cullom, and Jim Ham"
Lewis got the Democratic nomination.
Nobody knows how the ENHANCEMENT
due to the fact that a second vacancy
was produced after the nominations, by
the election of Lorimer from the SEN
ate, will be handled-nobody as yet
knows. The state will be terrifically
mixed, with the new party running
like wildfire and certain to get a con-
siderable number very likely pivotal
strength, in the legislature.
In Wyoming, Senator Warren, de-
spite the perfection of his machine
and the long ablishment of his pow
er, has big fight ahead. Governor
Carey is fighting Warren, and the
whole north side of the state is report
ed in revolt against Warren. Once
more the Progressives are expected
to get a showing in the legislature that
will compel serious consideration of
their claims.
It's the same way in South Dakota
in Michigan, where William Alden
Smith has the fight of his life for re-
election, while the Progressives are
active all over the state and the Demo
Gratis claiming they will control the
! Legislature. Probably the Democrats
will not do that, but if the third party
| comes in with respectable strength
in the Legislature majority for eth
err a regular Democrat or a regular
Republican will be impossible.
Kansas and Nebraska are not like
ly to be deadlocked, according to pre-
sent advices. Nebraska has the Ore
Son plan, which pretty nearly assures
the selection of a senator and makes
, deadlocks impossible. That is one of
the good things about the Oregon plan
1t will likely save both Oregon and
Nebraska from bad muses., for in each
the situation is such that, under ordi-
nary circumstances, the legislatures
would be pretty certain to be split in
| to factions and long fight precipitat-
ed
In North Carolina, it is just begin
ming to be realized, there is a situa-
| ton that promises great difficulty in
choosing senator; the state is de-
veloping a tremendous Progressive
strength, and there are three Demo-
cratic candidates for the Senatorial
nomination. Tennessee has to choose
a successor to Newell Sanders, and
the situation there is so utterly mixed
that all bets are off-and may stay
off for good many weeks after cleo
ton. Sanders is Republican, named
to fill vacancy.
1t will be observed that most of the
places where deadlocks may inter
vene, the states now represented by
Republicans. There is little prospect,
save in North Carolina, of delay in
selecting senators who will be Demo
Gratis succeeding Democrats. Thus the
Democratic party stands to hold about
all it now has, while the Republicans
will be the victims in most of the DOS
sible deadlocks