Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-05
SURE OF ELECTION
T0NEXT CONGRESS
Sixty-Eight Candidates for
House of Representatives
Are Without Opposition.
TWO WOMEN ARE ASPIRING

There are sixty-eight candidates fol-
the House of Representatives who can
go fishing on election day (Tuesday)
and never worry themselves in the
| slightest, for as sure as they are alive
they will be elected to the sixty-fifth
Congress. They are just as sure of
being members of the next House as
are the members from Maine. who have
already been chosen. THE sixty-eight
| candidates are those who have abso-
lutely no opposition-thereb being no OPP
position party in their districts. or they
having received the nomination of all
parties. The millennium has not arrived
| in American politics, but there are
scattering examples of men so popular
| in their own neighborhoods that prac-
| tically every one is going to vote for
them.
Mostly in the South.
These fortunate candidates. for the
most part, are in the south. where the
political struggle is in getting the
nomination. They are to be found in
Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia.
Louiiana. Massachusetts. Minnesota,
Mississippi, New York, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and HAWAII.
1t is not surprising that unopposed can
didates should be located in the solidly
democratic south, but that Massachu-
! sets. California, New York and Minne-
sofa should present districts where this
blissful condition is found is most sur
prising. Little is known here about
Hawaiian politics. The unopposed can
didate from those isles Is j. huhlo
kalanianaole. of Aikiki, well known
here, and called Prince Cupid" by his
friends in Congress.
Men Who Are Unopposed.
The only candidate in Alabama to
have opposition is Representative John
Burnett. chairman of the immigration
committee and author of the immi-
grafton bill. which annually springs a
veto scare. Judge Burnett comes from
district where there is an isolated
but active colony of republicans and
they keep him guessing each year. In
Arkansas there are four unopposed
democrats running for the House.
John 1. Nolan of San Francisco, au-
thor of the Nolan three-dollar-a-day
bill, who entered Congress as a ram
pant bull moose, is now a candidate
on both republican and democratic
kind, and no progressive voters left
| in his district.
E. w. Roberts, a most active Massa-
chusetts republican, has no candidate
against him. Representative Ellsworth
OF Minnesota is unoppoSed. All the
Mississippi members again are candi-
dates for the House, with no one to
draw a single vote from. them. The
single unopposed New Yorker is James
S. Parker of Troy. His democratic op-
Gri%
and there is no ticket except that of
MIR. Parker's in the field.
On All the Tickets.
W. J. Sinnott of Oregon and John NJ
Norm of Pennsylvania are each run
ming on all the tickets their. districts
have offered.
Three Tennessee House members will
be returned unopposed. Two are re-
publicans. Representatives Austin and
Sells, and one, Houston, is a democrat
Sixteen Texans are unopposed, but
large from that state are fought for by
half dozen candidates. Jeff" McLe-
more, author of the famous McLemore
resolution. Is one. and former Repre-
DAVIS lost the nomination for the post
OF representative at large. Represent
alive Montague Of Virginia is unop-
posed.
The eight candidates from South
Carolina are sure of walking into the
House as members. The only sitting
member from that state not running
again is Representative Aiken. He
did not receive the nomination. His
successor will be Fred Dominick.
democrat on the House District COM
mittee, but has attended only one
meeting in six years owing to his dis
like for Chairman Johnson. At the
single meeting he attended he was
| rushed in from the hallway by Repre-
sentative Crosser just in time to vote
on a municipal ownership question.
His vote carried the motion for Crosser
and against Chairman johnson.
Representative Lloyd of Missouri.
another veteran House member and a
recent addition to the House District
committee, is not candidate, and
Representative Wilson of Florida, a
member of the committee, did not re-
ceive the nomination.
Many Sitting Members Renominated.
In a big majority Of the 1876 districts
| in the country the sitting members
have been renominated, but there are
some conspicuous examples where the
local politicians have upset things and
nominated new man. Most of these
upsets resulted from long and bitter
factional fights.
| In Alabama Representative Abercrombie
| will no longer be a candidate; w. B.
| Bankhead. son of the senator, will be
| elected from the tenth district. In
California Representative William Kent
an Independent, has failed to receive a
nomination. Representative Hilliard
of Colorado, member of the House
| District committee. is opposed by Miss
| Hattie X. Howard. Representative
| Stephen NJ. Sparkman. a House veteran
and chairman of the rivers and harbors
committee, was defeated in the pri-
maries. and his place will. in all prob
| ability. be filled by H. J. Drane. Repre-
| sentative McDermott, from the Chicago
| stockyards district, who resigned from
one Congress while graft investiga-
ton was in progress, only to be re-
| elected to the next, did not receive a
nomination for the next House Medil
| Mccormick of Chicago appears as q
| candidate at large from Illinois Al
sitting Michigan members except George
Loud are running again, and Repre-.
sentatives Smith and Lindbergh ir
Minnesota did not receive nomipa
lions. Representative Schall of Mime.
apolis, running as a progressive, has a
hard night, with republican and &
democrat both after his scalp.
Woman's Election Predicted.
Miss Jeanette Rankin is runnine