Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-05
DEMOCRATS HOLD
! CONGRESS; SHOW
GAINS IN SENATE
Reduced House Majority May
Be rs, but Margin in Upper
House Will Be Larger.
SOUTH DAKOTA ELECTS
DEMOCRATIC SENATOR
Sullivan Beaten in Illinois.
Two New States for Wom-
an Suffrage.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-Demo-
cratic administration leaders today
claimed Substantial majority in
the House and continued control of
the Senate as a result of the cleo
tions for the next Congress. On re-
turns, which were not yet complete,
the Democrats asserted that their
majority in the Senate had been in
creased from ten to fifteen.
With the late returns the COM
p1ete eclipse of the Progressives also
became apparent.
With four congressional districts
still uncertain, results of Tuesdays
election show that the Democrats
elected to the House, 228; Republi-
cans, 1874; Progressives, Z; Socialists,
/: Independents 1. This would give
the Democrats a majority in the
lower House of twenty Repub-
licans claim the election of James j.
Britt over J. M. Gudger in the Tenth
district of North Carolina.
n. n. Mclean, Republican, Progress
sive, in the Third Colorado district.
and C. B. Timberlake,. in the Second
Colorado. The Democrats claim the
election of G. t. Helvering, in the
Fifth district of Kansas. In that
event there would be Democratic
majority of twenty three.
According to the latest returns. the
Democrats have elected f1fty-five to
tho Ted States Senate, the Repub-
We elected forty and the Pro-
p e; one.
With this the Democratic leaders
professed themselves satisfied. de-
claring that 1t was the greatest ma
jority "ever returned by any party
in an off-year following a tariff re-
vision" The Democrats also asserted
that tre returns showed that the
Progressive party had practically
disappeared, and that therefore the
Democratic victory was triumph
over a reunited Republican party.
Republicans, however, were jubi-
liant over the result. They asserted
thai the ProgressiveS were returning
to the fold, and that by 1916 the
way would be cleared for sweeping
Republican victory. They were pre-
pared to welcome back 'Uncle Joe"
Cannon and many of his erstwhile
followers who had fought their way
back to seats in the House after their
defeat in 1912. Three breaks in the
''solid SOUTH" which Democracy has
held for so many years. We're pointed
to as indications OF Democratic
weakness. Republicans elected from
Maryland and North Carolina and a
Progressive seated In the Third
Louisiana district gave aid and COM
fort to the opponents of the admin
istration.
The next Congress will see a gem
eraI reorganization of the House.
Speaker Clark, who was returned by
a goodly majority from his district,
will undoubtedly be the Democratic
choice for speaker; but the election
of Representative Underwood to the
Senate from Alabama will precipitate
a contest for the Democratic leader
ship, in which Representative Kitch-
in, of North Carolina, ranking MEM
Der of the ways and means commit
tee, will take the leading part. The
reduced majority of the Democrats
will also necessitate many changes in
the organization of the powerful
House committee.
In the Senate even a slight increase
In the present narrow Democratic
majority will strengthen the admin
fstration, which during the present
Congress has at times been somewhat
embarrassed by the slender margin
of control.
The Republican landslide that sent
twenty new Republican members to
the House of Representatives from
Ohio and Illinois did not materially
change the political complexion of
congressional delegations from other
Western States, returns showed to-
day. Twenty three other Middle and
Western States from Ohio to Call
fornia gave the Republicans a net
gain of four members Of the lower
house. To offset this the Democrats
showed a net gain of at least one
United States senator and elected
Democratic governors in Minnesota,
Nebraska, Michigan and Wyoming.
On the other hand Ohio rejected
Governor Cox, Democrat, and elected
Congressman Willis, Republican, to
the State House. and Colorado sup
planted a Democratic executive by
George Carlson, Republican. In prac-
tical1y all Western States, with the
exception of those on the Pacific
coast, the Progressive vote slipped
away, most of it going to the Repub-
lican candidates, but the Democrats
evidently benefited to some extent.
Practically complete returns today
show that Senator Lawrence 7. Sher-
man, Republican, was reelected to
the Senate in Illinois over Roger Sui
iivan, Democrat, by a plurality Of
IL 900. In Utah, where the result was
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