The Washington herald., 1916-11-10
The New Congress.

teresting information. The next Senate will be
Democratic by safe majority with indications
that the majority of ~ in the Sixty-fourth Con-
gress will be reduced materially in the House.
OF the United States Senate contests perhaps
the most surprising overturn was the defeat OF
Senator Lippitt, of Rhode Island. Lippitt is a
reactionary and one of the old guard, but the
result shows that he was cut heavily by his own
party and that he received little or independent
support. His successful opponent Peter Goelet
Gerry, served in the Sixty-third Congress and is
no novice in politics.
Although Hughes carried Delaware he did not
carry Senator Du Pont through to victory. The
Senator suffered through dissension, the campaign
of his successful opponent, Josiah .. Wolcott be-
ing aided materially because of it.
In Indiana, the defeat of Senators Kern and
Taggart unexpected: many. Senator Kern is
the majority leader of the Senate and the Demo
cratic leaders and President Wilson were exceed
ngly anxious to have him returned. His oppon-
ent, Harry S. New, has long been prominent in
the politics of the Hoosier State. Senator-elect
James E. Watson, who defeated Taggart, got
some disagreeable notoriety during the Mulhall
investigation of the National Association of Manu-
facturers and organized labor did its utmost to
defeat him.
Organized labor was unsuccessful again in its
ed for the Senate in Maryland. Lewis is chair
man of the labor committee of the House and is
rated the stanch friend of the union man, but this
voting element was not enough to defeat DR.
Joseph l. France.
Senator Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock, of the Senate
Military Affairs Committee, and one of the spon-
for the big preparedness bill just nosed out in
Nebraska.
Senator Lodge, conceded to have walk over
had to fight hard to defeat former Mayor John F.
Fitzgerald, of Boston, in the Massachusetts, con-
test.
Senator MARITIME succumbed to the big Repub-
lican majority that put the Presidents State in
the Hughes column. The returns demonstrate
conclusivey that the bulk of the Progressive votes
went to the successful candidate, Joseph S. Ere
| linghuysen.
The Calder victory in New York was by such
margin as to prove beyond question that the
great power once welded by Tammany Hall has
been greatly reduced. William F. MeCoombs
trailed 100000 votes behind the winner and made
a sorry showing in New York City.
Of the Southern States, Tennessee sends to
Congress a progressive and able leader in Repre-
sentative Kenneth D. McKellar. He is expert
| enced legislator, but youthful and vigorous and
probably will become big factor at the Capitol
Picturesque and able Senator John Sharp Williams
comes back from Mississippi for another six
years.
Senator Clark, of Wyoming, the wealthiest man
in the Upper Branch, went down to defeat before
! ]. B. Kendrick Democrat
In the House contests, Representative Roberts
of Massachusetts, ranking member of the Naval
Affairs Committee and a veteran legislator sue
cumbed to the independent candidacy of Alvan T.
Fuller. Fuller is former Progressive and ran
t;e r. oharfs
centered on his reputation pork barrel legis.
lator.
Representative Richard Olney, I'd, Democrat is
returned from a Massachusetts district that nor
mally is Overwhelmingly Republican, the candidacy
of Henry L. Kincaide, former Progressive being
surprisingly weak
Representative Clyde H. Tavenner, of Chicago
one of the leading pacihsts of the country and a
consistent foe of the preparedness program, was
showed under by his Republican opponent Repre-
sentative Buchanan, of Illinois, under Indictment
in New York for completely in alleged plan to
bring about strikes in munitions plants also failed
of reelection.
Representatives Reilly, Burke and Konop, OF
Wisconsin, went down to defeat and their defeat
is being attributed to opposition from German
voters who went as unit for the Republican can
didates. Senator La Toilette was an easy winner
of Democratic votes and strong independent sup
port.
Utah, one of two States that went for Taft
four years ago, sends two progressive Democrats
to the House and replaces Senator Sutherland Re-
publican, with w. H. King, progressive Demo-
crat.
The latest returns show that in every case
where expectations have been upset, the defeated
candidates replaced by of progressive
tendencies rather than by standpatters. Prepared
ness apparently meets with the approval of the
nation since opponents of it in almost every case
were defeated on Tuesday
The working majority of the Democrats in the
Senate is by such safe margin that 1t will be
necessary only to crack the party whip whenever
the need warrants. President Wilson has put
through most of the measures to which he was
committed at Baltimore and his task in guiding
the party destinies in Congress should be easier
even than it has been for the past three years.
In the House the Democratic majority will be
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