New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
Many Republicans Before
Believed Defeated Now
Reported Elected.
PROHIBITIONIST PUT
DOWN AS DEMOCRAT
Numerous the Changes To BE
Made in Trimble'S Unofficial
List of Margin of 29.

Washington. Nov. l5.-South Trim
BILE. clerk of the House of Representa-
tives. whose unofficial list" of mem
bers-elect gave the Democrats ma
jority Of %, will have to revise his hg-
ures in a way that IN all probability
will reduce the majority of the Demo-
Gratis to less than 20, according to cleo
tion reports received here in the last
few days.
One of the first changes that Mr..
Trimble will have to make is IN the
lst New York District, in which he mas
Lathrop Brown, the Democrat, re
elected. whereas the returns from ms
district show the election Of FREDERICK
, Hicks. the Republican candidate. =,
Another change that Mr.. IrlmoIe
will have 20 make in his calculations
is the substitution in Illinois OF D. NC
Cam Davis, the Republican CANDIDATE
for William +. Williams, the Demo
cratic candidate for Congressman-at-
large. the election of the latter having
been announced by Mr.. Trimble IN ms
unofficial list" According to reports
received at the headquarters OF the
Republican Congressional Committee
to-day Mr.. Davis was elected by over
5000 plurality.
Mr.. Trimble. in his enthusiasm, also
placed two other districts, the 5th Ne
braska and the I'd Michigan. IN the
Democratic column, but reports at the
Headquarters of the Republican Con-
gressional Committee to-day indicate
that Silas r. Barton. the Republican
candidate in the Nebraska district, has
defeated A. c. Shallenberger, and that
Mark R. Bacon, the Republican candl-
date, has defeated Samuel W. Beaks,
the Democratic candidate IN the Mich
igan district.
According 10 Mr. Trimble's unofficial
list" {. II. Randall, who was elected IN
the 9th California District on Demo-
cratic-P Prohibition ticket is classed as
a Democrat. If the reports received
here from Los Angeles are correct
Mr.. Randall is no longer member
Of the Democratic party, and is to
be classed as a Prohibitionlst. Ihe
Democratic organization in Los Ange-
les. according to the reports that come
here. denounced and renounced Mr.
Randall because of his views on prohl-
bition. Mr.. Randall, it is said, went
right back with the statement that ne
was through with the Democrats, and
that when he took q seat IN Congress
he would be found voting on the other
side
With these five districts changed, Mr..
Trimbles unofficial" Democratic ma
ioritv will be reduced to nineteen, with
a possibility when the complete results
are al hand Of further reduction IN
the Democratic majority IN the ne"
House. Congressman Wood, chairman
of the Republican Congressional Com
mittee. said tonight that complete re
turns of the election had not been re-
ceived by him. There were some dis
tricts. he said. where the results we're
so close that there was some doubt az
to who really was elected.
Among the surprises of the recent
election was the defeat Of FREDERICK
c. Stevens, the Republican candidate
for Congress in the 4th Minnesota DIS
trict. Mr. Stevens was considered one
Of the ablest men in the House. and his
failure 10 be reelected is looked upon
as big loss by the Republicans. West
Virginia furnished another surprise IN
the election of three Democrats. For
the first few days after election lndi-
cations pointed TO the election OF Adam
Lttlepage, in the Sd District, only.
Returns from the mountain districts,
/ however, changed the earlier lndlca-
tions, and two more Democrats, VI. NJ
Neely. in the 1st, and ". e. Brown, IN
the I'd District, were found to be
elected.
The contests in the 14th and 18th
Missouri districts were also very close,
neither of the Democratic candidate
elected having a majority of more than
150.
Mr.. Trimble in his "unofficial list"