Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-02-15
FIVE DEATHS IN THE u. 8.
SENATE SINCE LAST MAY.

Washington-Five deaths In the
United States senate since May Of last
year have whitfield the democratic
majority In that body from IL to 8.
When these vacancies are filed per-
manently by the voters of the states
in which the deaths have occurred,
the democrats, judging by present
day indications, will find themselves
in control of the senate by the mar
row majority Of four. This would
mean that the republicans will have
more than a fair chance of regaining
control of the senate at the election
next November. ,
Never before have so many deaths
occurred In the senate in so short
time. Senator Lane Of Oregon was
the first to pass away. That was in
May. In the following October, Sen
ator Husting of Wisconsin, demo
GRAFT, was accidentally shot and
killed. After the converting of con-
gress this winter, Senator Newlands
of Nevada, democrat; Senator Brady
of Idaho. republican; and Senator
hughes OF New Jersey, democrat,
passed away in quick succession.
Four of Five Democrats.
Four OF the five senator's were
democrats. Lane was succeeded by a
republican; the Wisconsin vacancy is
still untitled; democrat succeeded
Newlands, and a democrat took the
place OF Brady.
Four of the five states in which
deaths have occurred normally are
republican, and the republican con-
gressional committee confidently
looks to the election OF republican
senators in Oregon, Idaho, Wiscon-
sin and New Jersey. II this comes
about, then the republicans, to gain
control of the next senate, must make
gain of only three seats at the Mo-
vember election-providing they can
re-elect their present members, to
have majority OF two in the next
senate.
At the beginning Of the present
congress, and following the election
of 1915, 1t seemed impossible for the
republicans to capture the senate at
the election of 1918. While the demo-
cratic majority was then only IL, yet
II OF the 80 senator's whose terms
will expire on March 4, 1919, come
from the solid SOUTH" and that
number. to start with, could be set
aside as being beyond republican
reach. Now, however. a different sit
uation is presented. and the republic
GINS figure that control OF the senate
Is not an impossibiliry, and It evl-
IDENTIFY is the intention of the party
leaders to make try for 1t. at the
.; me time making an effort to con-
troll the house as we'll, where the
present democratic majority il too
close for democratic comfort.
"Non.Par4isan'' Camoufiago.
For some time democrats have
been talking patriotism and non-par-
tisanBhip; there has been much talk
of standing by the president, and
coupled with 1t the intimation that
democrats and republicans should
combine at the November election to
elect to congress men who are loyal,
and who are IN no way tainted with
pro-Germanism. OF course the demo-
cratic talk was put forth to promote
thu idea that republicans should Join
with the democrats in electing demo-
c9lts to the senate and house. on the
theory that democrats would most
certainly stand by the president in
the prosecution of the war" But the
records Of congress show that Presi-
dent Wilson. in the prosecution OF
practical policies has more loyal and
u ore aggressive support from repub-
Leans than from democrats; that it