El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-11-01

VICTORY ON
HOME ISSUES
By DAVID LAWBENCE.
tContinued from page IL

ANouAAAAeA ron A4se L.
/ crats have been Interested in their
own local or congressional tickets.
{ Indeed IN California, senator PheIan
may be reelected on the Democratic
ticket because ne has done nothing
TO embifter the Harding supporters
by any excessive interest in the league
Of nations or Gov CoZ's candidacy.
Senator Johnson's friends are helping
Phelan- Other senators are fighting
their own battles, too.
The senatorial situation Is so
pulling and is based upon so many
local factors that except for the gen
eraI statement that the Republicans
probably VIII control the senate bv a
majority not much more comfortable
than they have had for the last two
years the public viii derive little sat
isfacti0n out Of the prediction fore
casts.
Senator Nicholson. Republican
should win in Colorado Senator
Brandegee may be beaten in Connecti-
cut by Congressman Lonergan II the
Harding majority doesn't carry Bran
degee in, too. Senator Nugent, Demo-
Graf. has a splendid chance for re-
election in Idaho. Former senator
Tom Taggart probably viii defeat
senator jim watson in Indiana Sena-
tor Albert Cummings. Republican, in
Iowa and senator Beckhan. Kentucky.
Democrat, viii retain their seats,
though the Kentucky race is close /
Missouri is quite likely 70 defeat
senator Spencer. Republican, and send
Breckenridge Long, Democrat 20 the
senate, though here a few hundred
votes either way may tell the story.
Senator Henderson. Of Nevada, Demo-
crat wiz be reelected BY a handful
Of votes Senator WadsWorth, Re
publican, Of New York, As sure
winner, as Tanmany is helping him
and neElecting the Democratic candi- Z
date. DR.. Laid. Republican. viii win
in North Dakota as VIII Frank Willis,
Republican. succeeding Harding as
senator from Ohio. Olllahoma's sena- F.
oring Scott Ferris, the Democratic +
nominee, who beat senator Gore in
the primaries. Maryland IS close but
probably win send John Walter Smith,
Democrat. back 10 the senate.
smoot Appears safe
The Democrats have high hopes OF
defeating senator Reed Smoo-, Re- F.
publican. in Utah, but, while TIE state .
nay 90 Democratic on the national .
ticket because OF the Mormon interest .
in the league OF nations, the church .
wiz similarly send back apostle
Smo0t. the man who is supposed 10 be q
a comrsds Of senator Harding and .
therefore influential with him through {
the next administration
Senator Chamberlain, Democrat.
may be dsluged in Oregon n the Hard
ing sweep in that state takes on the
proportions OF a landslide, but he has
managed to creep in before when the
state has gone Republican and his
friends are really confident he viii
pun through again.
Wisconsin has the closest race Of
all a three coruered fight with the
prospect OF senator Lenroot, Republic
can. losing TO Paul Reinschs Democrat.
former minister 20 China
ConrroI Not In Doubt.
The question OF control Of thesseu-
ate IS not in doubt but it is a mat
ter OF anxiety at tbs Republican head
quarters and at Marion. Ohio, whether
the majority viii be big enough TO
work with comfortably, for other
wise senator Johnson and his fol-
lowers might be able 70 build an in
surgencV similar 70 that which
wrecked the Taft administration
The Republicaus have really been
working harder 70 capture the Eenatet
BY a big majority than the presidency
Ia recent weeks Senator Harding
himself has made personal appeals for
many OF the Republican nominees for
the senate but here, too, a prejudice
d gatust the man in office, desire for
q change, has had its effect irrespec-
tive OF party lines
The people have grown tired Of
some OF their laxative senators, too.
Here the election OF individual sena-
The whole thing IS fundamentally the
lab.t Of the American electorate CT
wanting q change in government
every few years, something not alto
gerher peculiar TO this republic or
PEOPLE, but true Of practically all the
European peoples since the war. Re-
construction has ia some cases been
Almost IS painful as war.
Want a Change.
Senator Harding has been picked
~ most everybody TO win chiefly be-
.ause Of the traditional habit Of
americans to change administration
very Few years.
But the Democrats have managed
o force the league Of nations TO the
ront as an issue with remarkable
uccess in the last Is days and any
calculations made as early as Oc-
ober 1.are necessarily subject to re-
.ision az the last moment, although
he league is not going to carry the
Democrats 70 victory.
An Nay Not Vote.
The heavy registration Of women
as made e doubtful whether in some
tates everybody viii have q chance
o vote in the limited period that the
oils are open On account Of the con
estiOn 81 the polls especially in
.ates where no provision has been
iade to handle the crowds, many
otes viii not be cast at all
The negro vote On northern states
better organized than e ever has
zen. IN some Of the border states,
.eliug Is not altogether pleasant
rer the way negroes have been n
obilized by the Republicans and IL II
not altogether a certainty that IN n
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