Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-03
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Washington, Nov 2.-The New
York Heralds political canvass of the
country indicates that in the elections
to be held next Tuesday. the demo-
Gratis will retain control of the senate
by four votes and that the republicans
will gain control of the house of rep
resentatives by a majority of twenty
three.
The democrats at present have a
majority of eight in the senate and
they now control the house by a plu-
rality of seven.
The next congress, as foreshadowed
by the Herald's reports from every
state and congressional dis rict, will
stand as follows:
Dem. Rep,
Senate ........ ...,....... % 40
House .,.........,. zoo zZ9
The present congress is made up as
follows:
Dem. Rep, Ind.
Senate ............ 62 "a
House ...2l4 2O1
There are seven vacancies, due to
death or resignation in the present
house.
The total membership of the SEN
ate is ninety-six and of the house 435.
Wilson's Appeal Il boomerang.
In the eleventh-hour telegrams that
have reached the New York Herald
from all over the nation. it is made
clear that the appeal of President Will
son for the election of democratic
senate and house, merely upon the
ground that it will help him in car
a,1t hi nd
with the suggestion that republican
congress would Interfere with a
proper settlement with Germany, and
reconstruction after the war, Is every
where the chief topic of discussion.
Tho principal effect of the presi-
dents appeal has been to make the
republicans fighting mad and in
every section they are going TO make
the best showing they can. Before the
appeal of Mr.. Wilson was issued there
was republican apathy in many con-
gressional districts. 1t is now appar-
ent that republicans feel that their
loyalty has been unjustly impugned,
and that politics without gloves has
been "reconvened" not by them but
by Mr.. Wilson.
On the other hand the democrats
think in many instances that the ap-
peal of the president will help their
candidates.
The New York Herald's reports are
from correspondents whose habit Is to
be impartial in their judgment of po-
litical situations and in nearly every
state they indicate that the presidents
appeal has aided the republicans more
than 1t has helped the democrats
There is no assertion of infallibility
connected with the figures prepared
as a result of the New York Herald's
canvass. The information has been
collected just as it has been during
many congressional, presidential and
state campaigns in past years with the
sole purpose of presenting the situa-
ton exactly as it exists. Until the fig
ures sent in by each correspondent in
dependently were totalled, nobody
connected with the New York Herald
had the slightest idea what the result
of the canvass would be.
Here is typical dispatch. 1t is
from the correspondent at Harrisburg,
Pa:
president Wilson's appeal for the
election of democratic congressman
has precipitated the greatest congress
sional contest known in Pennsylvania
since the civil war. Not even the cam
paigns of 1898 and 1900 can show
anything like the struggle which is be-
ing waged all over the state"
Here is what the correspondent at
Topeka, Kans., says:
1.-The appeal of the president to
send only democrats TO congress has
made certain the election of eight re-
publicans and republican United
States senator The direct charge Of
disloyalty against republicans has