The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-01-20
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In The Next Senate After
March A
Kentucky Expects To Send
Democrat To Senate


United States senate is so organized
that at no one time can majority OF
Its members, or more than a third, in
fact, go out of office. It is continuing
body in more senses than one. Not
only is its membership fixed for long
terms, but with every new Congress
1t begins business as If it had left off
only the day before, although eight
months may intervene between the
sessions. a
Regular senatorial terms expire on
the 4th of March, which ends the
first or "short" term of every Congress
One year from next March, when
Congress will suspend its sessions
until December, -thirty-one of the
pinety-six senators would retire to
private life, unless they had been re-
elected meantime. Most of the thirty
cne want to come back and several of
them do not know whether they can,
The outgoing list, which numbers
seventeen Republicans and fourteen
Democrates, is as follows: Marcus A.
Smith, Democrat, Arizona; James p.
Clarke, Democrat, Arkansas; George
@. Perkins, Republican, California;
Charles S. Thomas, Democrat, Colo
rado; Frank B. Brandegee, Republi-
can, Connecticut; Duncan u. FIetch-
er, Democrat, Florida; Hoke Smith,
Democrat, Georgia; James H. Brady,
Republican, Idaho; Lawrence Y. Sher-
man, Republican, Illinois; Benjamin
F. Shively, Democrat, Indiana; Albert
B. Cummins, Republican, Iowa; Jo-
seph L. Bristow, Republican, Kansas;
William o. Bradley, Republican, Ken
lucky; John r. Thornton, Democrat,
Louisiana; John Walter Smith, Demo-
crat, Maryland William ]. Stone,
Democrat, Missouri; Francis G. New
lands, Democrat, Nevada; Jacob H.
Gallinger, Republican, New Hamp-
shire; Elihu Root Republican, New
York; Lee s. Oyerman, Democrat,
North Carolina; AISLE J. Gronna, Re-
publican, North Dakota; Theodore e.
Burton, Republican, Ohio; Thomas p.
Gore, Democrat, Oklahoma; George E.
Chamberlain, Democrat, Oregon;
Boies Penrose, Republican, Pennsyl-
vania; Ellison d. Smith, Democrat,
South Carolina; Coe /. Crawford, Re-
publican, South Dakota; Reed Smoot,
Republican, Utah; William P. Dilling-
ham, Republican, Vermont; Wesley L..
Jones, Republican, Washington; Isaac
Stephenson, Republican, Wisconsin,.
Very few of those in the above list
have any assurance that they will be
members of the upper house after
March 4, 1915. Gallinger OF New
Hampshire, who is the ranking mem
ber Of the senate, has not announced
whether he intends to be a candidate
for reelection, though the presump-
ton is that he will try for another
term. Neither Stephenson of Wis
consin nor Perkins of California, two
of the oldest members in years, will
seek reelection. In both States the
fight has already begun for their sue
cessors.
Penrose of Pennsylvania will have
a hard fight on his hands and so will
Root of New York, if he decides to
be candidate. Senator Bristow of
Kansas would like to know what will
happen to him. In his case the Pro-
gressives, with Victor Murdoch as
their candidate, are the real menace.
Bristow wavered between the two
parties for long time, but finally
came out with the announcement that
he would stand for reelection as
Republican.
Kentucky is expected to send a
Democrat to the senate to succeed
Bradley, Republican. The choice will
be made in a general primary, with
Governor MeCreary, former Governor
Eeckham and Representative Stanley
as the contestants.
Hoke Smith of Georgia, who is fill
ing the unexpired term of the late
Senator Clay must go before the
people this year for the regular term.
Should Governor slatonl or ex-Gover-
nor Brown enter the race 1T would
mean renewal of the old political
warfare in Georgia, with the results
very much UP in the air. UU3
Alabama is in the heat of a bitter
fight for the seat Of the late Senator
Johnston, to which Congressman Clay
ton was appointed by the Governor.
Clayton would like to retain the seat,
but the real fight is believed to be be-
tween Representatives Underwood and
Hobson. The contest will be settled in
the primary this spring.
Crawford of South Dakota has op'
position for reelection in several
nfhar Progressive RepublicanS, Con-