Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-30
DISTRICTS TO BE REDEEMED
TO REPUBLICANISM

TT,HE election OF Mr.. Hughes without n
Republican House Of Representatives
TO cooperate with him win not be enough
to bring about the Industrial prepared
ness necessary to meet the crisis in for.
elgn trade that IL sure to follow peace in
Europe.
The present Democratic majority Is
twenty-three. II the Republicans retain
what they now have and elect twelve
more members they win have n bare
majority. Chairman Woods, OF the Repub-
lican Congressional Campaign Com
mittee. predicts that at least thirty
Republicans will displace Democrats
next March. An additional Repub
lican has already been elected in
Maine. Mr.. Woods finds that the pros
poets are good for the election Of twenty.
nine more, as follows: Rhode Island.
one; New York. two; Ohio, two; Missouri,
three; Kansas. two; Indiana, six; Illinois
two; South Dakota, one; Oklahoma, two;
California. three; Nebraska, one; Iowa
one; washington, one, and West Virginia,
two.
He omits Pennsylvania from his count,
but Il is morally certain that three dis
tricts now represented by Democrats will
elect Republicans next week. Lesher, of
the Sixteenth District. polled 1882 votes
two years ago, but the Washington and
Republican candidates received between
them 13.S4S votes. If the believers In
protection do their duty this year there is
no doubt Of the election of a Republican
who will vote for the American tariff
policy. Bailey, in the Nineteenth Dis
trict, received 14,s93 votes in 1914. and
his Republican opponent polled 14,176,
giving the election to Bailey. The Wash.
ington party candidate. however was
supported by more than ten thousand
Progressive Republicans. who are now
acting with the Republican party. Bailey
1912 when the opposition was divided.
and was the first Democrat to carry the
district in recent times. A united op.
| position makes his chances so slight
that nothing bat a miraculous revolu-
ton in popular sentiment can save him.
The situation in the Twenty-fifth District
is only little less encouraging to the
Republicans than that in the Nineteenth.
The Washington and Republican vote
against Liebel in 1914 would have de-
feated him by five thousand majority IL
1t had been combined. A Washington
candidate is In the field this year. but
the Washington party voters are Repub-
licans. and the Republican candidate is
morally certain of victory.
Here are three districts where gains
are so certain that they can be counted
on to change the estimate of Congress.
man Woods from thirty to thirty-three.
The party has a good fighting chance in
the Eleventh and Thirteenth Districts,
where IL the protection issue is played
up as it should be there can be little
doubt OF the result.
Whatever other reasons there may be
for the defeat of the Democratic party,
and there are many Of them, the i'm.
portance Of electing House of Repre-
Of protection to home industry is so great
that no Republican and no independent
who believes In protection should per-
NIT himself to stay away from the polls.
II the campaign committees. both state
and national, fail to concentrate atten-
ton on the districts which can be re-
deemed to Republicanism, they win neg.
lect their most obvious duty.