The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-30
R0TH PARTIES FIGURING
ON CONTROL OF SENATE
ru1pTY-TWO SEATS, AN UMPIRE
cEDENTED NUMBER, ARE
TO BE FILLED.
ELECTIONS CONSIDERED BARON
ETER OF NATIONS SENTIMENT

Democrats Now Have a Majority of
FIGHT, In the Last Three Contests
Republicans Have Gained Steadily
in the House.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Although
major political interest centers in the
house of representatives, where act
nal control is at stake, the unprece-
dAnted number of vacancies to be
filed in the senate this year leads
poItical leaders to believe that the
senatorial contests will offer better
barometer in the lower branch of
congress.
This view arises chiefly from the
fact that the republicans have gain
ed steadily in the house in the last
three elections, and the gain of addi-
tional seats in November, while of
great Importance in changing the or
ganization, would not carry the
weight of the senate elections, where
the sentiment of an entire state is
registered.
Thirty-six seats in the senate are
to be filled this year. This is the
largest number of candidates before
the people since the direct-eleetion
amendment was ratified. The repub-
licans hope for sufficient gains to give
them control is somewhat far-fetch-
ed in the minds of many leaders.
With two vacancies on the democrat
ic side the majority party controls
the senate by eight votes, having at
present fifty-two seats to forty-four
for the republicans. AS Missouri and
Louisiana both are democratic states,
the majority will be ten when the
temporary successors of the late sem
ators from those states are named
by the governors.
Republican Control Unlikely.
Twenty-Five seats filled by demo-
Gratis and fourteen held by republi-
cans are to be filed at elections this
year. On the democratic side at
least fourteen of the states are count
ed as certain for that party, and this
fact, taken with the chances of vic
tories in some of the so-called doubt
full states, is taken to indicate that
the possibility of republican control
OF the senate is at best remote.
Senator's whose regular six-year
terms expire and who seek re-elec-
ton are:
Democrats-Bankhead, Ala, Hard
wick, Ga, James, KY, Lewis, ILL.,,
Martin, Va, Owen, Okla, Ransdell,
La, Robinson, Ark, Salisbury, Del,
Shafroth, Col, Sheppard, Tex, Sim
mons, N. c., Shields, Tenn, Thomp
sen, Kan, Tillman, S. c., Yardaman,
Miss Walsh, Mont.-Total, II.
Republicans Borah, Idaho, Colt,
R. /, Fall, N. M, Fernald, Me-, Ken
yon, Iowa, Nelson, Mimi, Sterling,
S. Oak, Weeks, Mass.-Total, ..
Three republican senators and one
democrat will not be candidates for
reelection. They are Golf, of West
Virginia; Smith, of Michigan, and
Warren, of Wyoming, republicans,
and Hollis, of New Hampshire, dem
ocrat
Of seven vacancies created by
deaths one has been filled by the
election of Irvine L. Lenroot in Wis
consin. Two governors appointees
are candidates for reelection for the
meXpired terms for which they were
selected. They are John F. Nugent,
Of Nevada, democrat, for the unex-
pred term of Francis G. Newlands,
democrat, and Charles B. Hender-
son, democrat, of Idaho, for the re-
mainder of the term of James H.
Brady, a republican.
Senator McNary, republican, of
Oregon, who was appointed for the
yQneXplred term of Senator Harry
Lane, democrat, is not candidate
Tor the remainder of the Lane term,
having entered the race for the long
Term beginning next March. Senator
David Baird, republican, of New Jer-
Sey' may seek the remainder of the
Term of Senator Hughes, democrat,
winch runs to March 4, with the like
mood of Governor Edge, republican,
running for the long term.