Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-31
G. 0. P. FIGHTS
I FOR FIVE MORE
SEATS in HOUSE
State Leaders Hope to Take
All but One Congress
sional District
DEMOCRATS SEEK MORE

pairn TO Increase the number OF -Repub- /
iican Congressmen from this State.
N Congressional contests are being waged |
m fourteen OF the thirty-two districts In /
the state. Five OF them were launched |
by the Republicans with the hope OF cap |
turing Ave Of the present six Democratic |
districts. In the other nine districts the |
Democratic candidates are waging cam |
paigns TO capture present Republican dis |
trIcts with some slight chances OF success |
The only congressional district in the |
state now represented by a Democrat, In |
which the Republicans do not expect 10 |
elect Republican member OF Congress. is |
the Twenty-sixth, or northeastern district |
This district Is known as A. Mitchell Pal |
mer's, and Is represented by Henry J. |
steele II embraces Carbon. Monroe, North |
smpton and Pike Counties.
SMALL CHANCE FOR LEWIS
The Republicans have nominated winfred
D. Lewis OF Lansford but the district Ia
considered strongly Democratic and there
appears to be little chance OF Lewis's elec-
ton
In the Eleventh, Thirteenth Sixteenth.
Nineteenth and Twenty NTH Districts, how
ever, the Republican leaders appear conn.,
dent OF electing their candidates in the
places OF present Democratic Congressmen.
In the Eleventh District, which includes
ali Of Luxerne County, the Republicans
have nominated c. w. Templeton, who Is
considered as strong personally as John
j. Casey, Democratic candidate for re-
election. The district is normally slightly
Republican. A third candidate, Jonathan
r. Davis. is in the field. having the
washington and Prohibition nominations,
but he Is not expected to take much
strength away from either Templeton or
Casey.
In the Thirteenth District. which includes
Berks and Lehigh counties, Congressman
Arthur @. Dewait Is having a hard cam
paign for reelection.
The district is Democratic by large
majority, but Horace w. Chantz, the
Republican nominee. carried II for two
terms as State Senator and apparently Is
= now cutting In on Dewalt's Democratic
strength. He has the Washington. Bull
Moose and Roosevelt Progressive nomina-
tions besides the Republican to help him
John v. Lesher present Democratic
Congressman from the Sixteenth District.
is having a close contest for reelection.
The Republicans have nominted !. Clinton
Kline. He also won the Washington and
Prohibition nominations. The district In
ciudes Columbia. Montour. Northumberland
and Sullivan Counties and is normally
Republican. with a Hughes sweep in
Pennsylvania the Republican leaders ex-
ect the defeat of Lesher.
The Republicans apparently should have
easy time defeating Warren Worth
~ in the Nineteenth District. which
les Bedford, Blair and Cambria Coun-
Al the very outset Of the campaign the
tide set In in favor of the Republican
! nominee, John NJ. Rose.
When Bailey was first elected to Con-
gress four years ago In three-cornered
hght, he had only thirty-two per cent of
the vote cast for all candidates, and when
he was reelected two years ago he had
emily thrty-six per cent.
His plurality over the next high candi-
date In 1912 was 915 and his plurality over
Bailey must split the votes that he did
not get in the last three-cornered fight to
win and his chances are not in the least
bettered by the registration OF voters In
Cambria County, which, shows more than
$4,000 Republicans on the lists and about
cne-third as many Democrats
In the Erie-Crawford district. the Twen-
ty-hfth, State Senator Henry A. Clark. the
Republican nominee. has the support of the
reunited Republicans but has to fight a
third candidate who may take votes away
from him. Charles N. Crosby. OF Lines
vile. is the Democratic nominee. while VIII
liam w. Kincaid. who opposed Clark for
the Republican nomination. Is on the WASH
ington and Prohib tion tickets.
Kincaid has refused TO withdraw. al
though the friends of Senator Clark do not
feel that he has any considerable strength.
Crosby defeated Congressman Michael
Liebel, Jr., for the Democratic nomination,
and there is talk OF desertions from the
Crosby standard among the Liebel Demo
Gratis
Inc REORGANIZATION WING OF tne DefHOc-
racy In the district is led by, United States
District Attorney Il. Lowrey Humes Liebe
did not secure much recognition in the
way Of Federal patronage, and, as result
the reorganizers are not all satisfied with
Crosby. who is follower OF Liebel
The district is normally Republican. and
the enrolment for this election shows 4oo(
more Republicans on the lists than Demo
Gratis.
Kincaid's strer 9Th, and the possibility Of
hfa int ha ~ rI liza,
In the Prohibition vote. There are neari,
1000 Prohibtionists enrolled in the dis
rict. and they are not all united behind
kireaid II the element opposed to Kin
caid should throw their strength 10 Crosby
Clark will have a close fight
CONTESTS IN CITY
The Democrats have launched fights Il
win, districts that are now represented b,
Republicans In the Fifth and Sixth Dis
tricts. In Philadelphia; In the Tenth. Fiji
teenth. Seventeenth, Twentieth Twenty
third. and In the Thirtieth and Thirty-sec
end Districts In Pittsburgh.
In the two contested Philadelphia dis
tricts the Republican candidates are conn
dent OF winning. Former Congressman
Michael Donohoe Is the Democratic candi
date opposing Peter r. Costello for re
election In the Kensington-F Frankford dis
b4ct
Donohoe is a protective tarin Democra
and has a large personal following In tn
mill district His chances for election
however. depend upon one faction OF tn
Republican party knihng Costello. and bot
factions today declare that they are unite
behind Costello.
Former Congressman J. Washingto
LoEue Is the Democratic nominee In IN
Germantown-West Philadelphia district an
q making a vigorous campaign Congress
baan George p. Darrow. however. has th
united Republican support In the distrlc
which Il strongly Republican.
n.afFlrf which Include
Lsckswsnnn County. the Democratic nom
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