Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1914-05-29
TIE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS
NEXT FALL.


between the political parties will be a
strenuous one. The following article wisely
warning the members of the Democratic
party OF the necessity of standing solidly
together against Republicanism and Roose-
Veltism is taken from the National Monthly,
edited by Norman E. Mack, one of the lead
ing Democrats of to-day
in the Congressional elections next No
Vember, the political parties will for the
first time since the Presidential struggle of
1917, measure their strength in a great
pitched battle on a national scale. We
use the word Congressional" in its broad
est sense. 1t relates not only to the cleo
ton OF four hundred and thirty-five Rep
resentatives in Congress, from that num-
Der OF Congress districts throughout the
United States, but it means the election of
thirty-two United States Senators, that is
one-third of the Senate.
Democratic Senators whose terms expire
in 1915. are Senators Stone of Missouri,
Hoke Smith Of Georgia. Shively of Indiana,
Chamberlain Of Oregon. Overman of North
Carolina. Gore of Oklahoma, Thornton of
Louisiana, Smith Of South Carolina, Smith
OF Arizona, Smith Of Maryland, Clarke Of
Arkansas, Fletcher of Florida, Thomas of
Colorado. and Newlands of Nevada. The
term OF the late Senator Johnston of Ala
bama. as successor to whom the Governor
designated Editor Franklin P. Glass of the
Birmingham News, would also have ex-
PRED in 1915. OF the Republican Senators
whose terms end next year, there are Root
OF New York, Gallinger of New Hampshire,
Cummins of Iowa. Bristow of Kansas
Perkins of California, Brandegee of Con-
necticut, Brady of Idaho, Sherman of ILL.,
nois. Bradley of Kentucky. Gronna of North
Dakota, Burton of Ohio, Penrose of Penn
sylvania, Crawford of South Dakota, Dill
bingham of Vermont. Stephenson of Wis
consin. Jones of Washington. and Smoot of
Utah.
The Senators who are to be elected this
year, will be chosen under the Seventeenth
Amendment Of the Constitution, providing
for election Of United States Senators by
direct vote Of the people.
THE House of Representatives of the
present Congress is composed of 29O Demo-
Gratis. 1877 Republicans. and IS Progressives.
The Senate consists of 81 Democrats and AS
Republicans. The Republican party will
in the election next November and the
campaign preceding it. unquestionably
make desperate effort to transfer the
voting preponderance in both houses of
Congress, to the Republican side of the
enclosure. The Republicans are fighting
in the last ditch. They are in a position
where they have little to lose. The very
despair Of the adversary is one of the
strongest of reasons why Democrats in
every Congress district and in every State
which is to elect Senators this year, should
be thoroughly on the alert, and unsparine
Of vigor and effort
ITO affirm and ratify. by an overwhelm-
ing popular vote. the magnificent achieve
ments Of the Wilson administration, &c
see to it that that administration shall
have throughout its entire course, a Con-
gress Democratic in both branches, to COM
plete the work so grandly begun, is the
task which is before the Democracy the
coming fall. To name good candidates
and then to take care of them, to muster
the entire strength of the Democracy frs
in the campaign, and then at the polls, /,
the business comprising the militant duty
of the Democratic party. from now unit
the election is over. next November.
THE earlier the better. That is maxim
that cannot be too earnestly impressed OF
the party, in regard to the details of pre-
paratiOn. When the battle lines are Joined
let ours be the array which shall be by il
order. its cohesion. its positiveness Of pur
pose, its militancy Of action. its definite
conception Of the goal to be attained, an,
its determination to reach that goal, max
victory a certainty.
1T is said the greatest generals win thei
battles before a shot is fired So let it b
with the Democracy in the Congressiona
and Senatorial battle of 1914 We ar
about to engage in conflict of the broad
est national significance. The issue is tn
perpetuation, in each and both Of the lel
islative branches Of the Government, @
the policies which have given the natio
tariff reform, the income tax. the currenc
law. the first alignment of great bushes
TO meet the requirements Of the law TIL
nation has ever had. and the accomplishe
solution of problems which had new,
been solved till now.
THE tariff question had bafiied eener,
ton after generation Of statesmen for moi
than hundred years. The currency an
banking questions had been mooted issue
for fifty years. Equity Of taxation, rel
resented by the income tax. and the rigl
collection and appoftionment Of revenue
by adjusting the tariff to revenue basi
at the same time opening a new field
Government resources. by virtue of the il
come tax. were issues which for twenl
yours hdu WditCu W NC put III OptIdtiO
The finding of a ground upon which bus
ness could be conserved and prosperi
expanded. yet both be made subordina
10 the majesty Of the law. was a 60
which had been sought in vain. ever sin,
the era Of the modern growth Of trusts an
monopolistic combinations had its inceI
ton in the last years Of the preceding Gel
fury. and the first years Of this
"All these necessities have now bee
met All these problems have been solve
The Wilson administration inaueurated
new epoch the epoch of reform, achiev,
ment. and the answer to questions
which the most modern had racked d
country for more than a decade. and III
Oldest for century and quarter.
I'VE have entered upon the period