The Cordova daily times., 1920-10-22
HOUSE LINEUP IS ACITATLNC
 POLITICIANS


 house of representatives be as strongly Republican as the present house, where the Republican major
 ty is forty-six votes? This question is now agitating the Democratic campaign managers, who are striv- l ing in every state to elect men of their political belief to the next house. The Republican managers are viewing the situation without alarm sible for the Democrats to overcome the present big Republican house majority. As the Republicans are confidently expecting a Harding and Coolidge landslide in November they feel sure the Democrats will not be able to capture the next house and they expect to largely increase their present majority.
 The present membership of the house includes 264 Republicans, 19O Democrats, 3 Independent Repubi- cans, 1 Independent, 1 Prohibitionist, and there are seven vacancies total 435.
 It now seems probable to all inn 1 partial political observers here that the Cox Roosevelt ticket will secure very few electoral votes outside of the sixteen Southern states, and if this happens the Republican house
 It cannot be denied by any but the blindest partisans that the Sixty fifth congress, which had a Democratic majority in house and senate, and which was absolutely dominated by senators and representatives from the southern states, discriminated against the northern, mid-western and western states. That congress collected the bulk of the revenue Germany from the three other sec tions of the country, but spent most of it in the solid south" Most of the great government war work plants, army camps and aviation fields were established in the south largely paid for with taxes col lected from the remainder of the country.
 The minority south not only dom | system, but it collected immense sums from the other sections of the country and spent most of the money in the south.
 One example of other discrimina- tion practiced by the southern ring" then in control of congress will suffice. That congress fixed a government price on wheat. It re fused to fix price on cotton-pure- | ly a southern product.
 While the northern, midwestern and western states supplied most of the soldiers that were needed to win the war with Germany, and also supplied the greater part of the revenue collected to pay the war | expenses, the sixteen southern states, dominating congress, secured most of the money spent in this country during the war.
 When the elections came for the SiXtysiXth congress the people of the country. excepting those in the south, having been informed of these unjust and discriminatory conditions, elected Republican house majority of forty-siX and a senate majority of two. If a Democratic congress should be elected in November these condi- tions undoubtedly would be repeated. | The southern congressman, voting "en bloc" and dominating every Democratic caucus, would again gain control of the revenues of the whole | country, and tax the people for money that would be largely spent | in public improvements in the south. |
 Do the people of the north, the midwest and the west desire a re- turn to congressional conditions where one small section of the coun- try, of sparse population, and pay ing comparatively a small part of the taxes. can dominate the whole congress? That is the question the Republican managers are now put, ting up to the electorate in this campaign. No doubt it will be answered by the election of big in bonCa onI