Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-29
INTEREST IN SIDE TOPICS
Prospective Control of Both Branches
of Congress Discussed.
OLLIE JAMES IMPRESSIONS
Declares He Found Unprecedented
Enthusiasm in His Democratic
Meetings in Six States.
BY N. o. MESSENGER.

NEW YORK. October 29.-With election
made and the election of Mr.. Wilson in
all human probability is assured Only a
few collateral questions remain to at
tract interest and form topics of discus
sion
For instance. one is the question of
how many familiar faces in Congress will
be missing, as some of our old friends
and acquaintances are going under in
the storm. 1t would seem from present
prospects that republicans in the next
House will be almost as scarce as hens
teeth
Next, will the prospective new admins
tration have the support of democratic
Senate? Some old-time republicans here
abouts are hoping it may fall out that
way; let the tail go with the hide give
the democrats complete control of the
government and legislation, and put upon
them the responsibility of answering the
country four years hence.
Another proposition is the extent of the
Roosevelt vote. Republicans blush with
modification at the suggestion that
Roosevelt might run ahead of President
Taft, and hope that he will fall far be-
low him But no one must be foolish
enough to underestimate the strength of
Roosevelt or lose sight of the probability
that he will poll a heavy popular vote.
ollie James Finds Great Enthusiasm.
Senator-elect Ollie NJ. James of Ken
lucky. permanent chairman of the demo-
cratic national convention at Baltimore,
who has just returned from a speaking
trip through Nebraska, Indiana. Illinois,
Iowa. Kansas and Michigan, says:
have spoken as many as five times
a day in these states, and have never
seen so much enthusiasm and interest
SHOWN In the issues of a campaign a. this
year Ihe people are eager to hear the
discussions ftariff and trust questions.
The attempt of the republicans to work
an industrial scare has proved boomer
ang. They have not been able to injure
wilson anywhere by the attempt to stam-
pede the people to Taft by the prediction
of panic in the case of democratic sue
cess. All that talk has helped the de..o-
Gratis. A rather interesting thing about
1T Is that. having worked that thing so
long and so many times without success
people are now employing IT against each
other, and it is flash in the pan
Predicts Unprecedented Vote for
Wilson.
Josephus Daniels. chairman of the pub
iicity bureau Of the democratic national
committee, who has been at his home
In North Carolina for some days, called
there by illness in his family, mas re-
turned. He brings the claim that there
will not be a break in the south from
Texas to Maryland, and that republicans
in none of those states are making a
campaign with the expectation of doing
anything
He scoffed at the statement published
yesterday by Mr.. Perkins, that Roosevelt
had a first-rate chance of carrying Geor-
gia. and asserted that Wilson would poll
the biggest vote ever given for any can
didate for Office in the south
1T often happens in those southern
states" said Mr. Daniels, where there is
no real republican opposition that the
vote polled is very light One because
thousands of democrats, knowing that
there is no contest, do not take the
trouble to vote. but this year, although
there is no opposition to Wilson that is
formidable. the democrats are so tremen-
dously in earnest that the vote in the
south is going to be a record hrea u in o.
one.
IN some parts of the south, when he
was candidate, Mr.. Cleveland was not
particularly strong, though he carried al
most every state. But all democrats in
the south are united in the support of
Wilson. and he will get not ONLY the
electoral vote of the south, but the big
sest popular vote ever polled there for
q presidential candidate"