The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-12-10
INVADE THE SOUTH
is C. o. P. SLOGAN
with 81 Congressman From That Sec.
ton, They Intend To Seek
More In 1922.

Washington, December 4th.-with
but sixteen Democrats in the House
of Representatives outside of the solid
South and with thirty-one Republic
cans from that formerly rock-ribbed
Democratic section, the Republican
leaders in Congress are in high hopes
of permanently invading Dixieland.
The final and official list Of mem
bers compiled by W. Tyler Page. clerk
of the House, gives for the Sixty-sev-
enth Congress 800 Republicans, 1872
Democrats, and one Socialist ma
jority of Republicans over Democrats
of 170. The Republican total Is larg-
er than ever held by any party in the
history OF the government, exceeding
by SO the Republican total immediate
ly following the Roosevelt landslide
of 1904. The mojority is also great
er than at any previous time. After
the Republicans and Progressives
split in 1912, the Democratic majority
over both was las and over the Re
publicans 163. When the disastrous
results OF the second Cleveland ad-
ministration became known, the Re
publicans in 1894 gained a majority
of 40. and at that time the total
number OF representatives was only
357 as compared with the present 435
before that, In 1890, the Democrats
won a majority of 143 out OF total
of 3S3 representatives.
The present Republican majority
of 22 in the Senate is not the largest
the party has had. In the Sixtieth
Congress, the last of the Roosevelt
Administration, the Republicans had
thirty-one more senators than the
Democrats. For a decade they main
tanned a majority approximating thir-
ty, gaining a preponderance in 1894
and holding It until 1912. In 1892
the Democrats gained clear majority
of two. and then, with the exception
of 1878, In the last half OF the Hayes
administration, the Republicans con-
trolled the Senate continually after
1860. In the Forty-first Congress, in
reconstruction days. the latter had 81
seats to IL for the Democrats, a ma
jority of 81. Should their number be
augmented by 10 in 1922, as is
expected their majority would be AZ
over the Democrats.
II
Presidential campaign profess to see
such an awakening" in the South
ern States and such interest in the
Republican Party, its principles and
policies that one said recently: 1.-The
solid South will never be solid
again"
1t was less that Tennessee gave its
electoral vote to the Republican can
didate and the dwindling OF Demo-
cratic pluralities In other Southern
States than the contributions to the |
Republican campaign from Southern
States that prompted the remark.
From. Republican point of view
the Southern field has been regard
ed as so Improbable that until this
year the party never in Presidential
year has carried its fight south of the |
Mason-Dixon line, nor has any at
tempt been made to raise a campaign |
fund in any Southern State. What
ever money was needed in the South
10 go through the contest necessary to
retain the party column on the ballot
has been supplied by the National
Committee.
In regard to the collection of cam
paign contributions, this year was no
exception. All contributions from the
South came as unsolicited voluntary
offerings. Under the circumstances,
the Republican leaders have, been
pleasantly surprised to find from the
complete figures now at hand that
Southern States which in other Pres
idential campaigns contributed moth
ing have this year in more than one
instance exceeded the aggregate ras-
ed in several Northern States, some OF
them Republican.
Mississippi is the only one absent
from the list of States that did their
share in providing the sinews of war
for the fight to elect Harding. The
contributions made from other South
ern and border States show the fol-
lowing aggregates:
Alabama .......' .'..''' o'zof n
Arkansas .............. 27,50S
Florida 6.647
Georgia ............... 1920
Kentucky .....!........ 1886 .
Louisiana ............. 3O,6OS ,
MARYLAND IH.h4H