New Britain herald., 1914-07-20
WOE TO DEMOCRATS
 F REPUBLICANS WIN
Wholesale Inquiry of Wilson Re- zine, if C. Q. p. Capture House.

investigation of the democratic ad- ministration is promised by the re- publicans if they secure control of the house of representatives at the cleo tion this fall While the republicans realize there is a big eff" in the way, nevertheless they are making their preliminary plans for such an investi- gation, with the idea, of course, of using whatever ammunition they may unearth to their own benefit in the 1916 presidential campaign. In short, they propose to treat the democrats to dose of their own Investigating medicine.
 Their plan to conduct a wholesale inquiry into democratic methods eX- plains why the republicans are so anxious to secure control of the house. They do not expect to do any legis- lating, because they know it would be futile. There are some republi- cans who think control of the next house would be bad strategy; but the bulk of the leaders here want control because of the opportunity it will af- ford to put the 1916 campaign on it's feet.
 Not Wild Dream.
 The national republican congress sional committee, which has been at work in preliminary way for sev- eral months, looks upon the political outlook through rose-colored glasses. It will require the winning of seventy four seats now held by democrats to wrest control from them, but the re- publican managers are producing fig ures to show that it is by no means wild dream to expect such change, and they are actually figuring that they will do it.
 The Investigating business was worked to the fullest limit by the democrats when they gained control of the house in the sixty-second con- gress, during the last two years of President Taft. Every one of the standing committees on expenditures in the various government depart ments was galvanized into life after years of somnolence.
 Made Things Uncomfortable.
 Each committee went to work on it's particular department investiga- ting anything and everything that promised campaign material. In ad dition, there were two or three spe- cial committees at work making things uncomfortable for the repup- lican heads of departments.
 So far as actual scandals went, the results of the democratic investiga- tions were meagre. But they relied upon the cumulative effects upon the public mind of the wholesale inquiry, the very idea of an investigation be- ing ca lculated to inspire the suspicion that there was something wrong somewhere.
 This is exactly what the republicans propose to do, if they can secure con- trol of the committees by winning the house.
 Shall Publish Results.
 They will put every executive, from the state department to the labor de- partment, on the grill, and will take particular care that the results shall be published broadcast. They will delve into democratic appointments and democratic patronage, as well as policies, and will make a great noise over democratic extravaganza all along the line. The latter will be one of their chief features, and the easiest because government appropriations have increased by leaps every year.
 The republican congressional man. agers, while not in possession of ple- thoric funds claim they have enough to cover the country this fall in an ef- fective manner, and they predict that carried through to success, despite the apparently Herculean nature Of the task.