The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-10-30
Next Senate Likely to Have
Republican Majority Of Eight
Is IsPredicted by Mark Sullivan

The ninety-six members Of the pres
ent Senate are divided as follows: "A
Republicans ...........'.''.'
tNominaliy, this gives the Republic.
ans majority of two in the present
p1biican % s senators is Nexberry Of Mich
igan. who does not vote penang the re
suit Of an appeal to the higher courts
on his conviction for ~ootaninE MS seat
through the improper use OF money! an
other is La Fallotte, who Is as apt 10
vote with the Democrat ts as with the Ee-
publiCans. In truth therefore, IN tne
Senate as Il now stands the Republicans
have Z very dubious majority OF one,
which, as often as not. when La Fa!Iotte
votes with tho Democrats, is turned INTO
a Democratic ma jority Of one. Moreover
ono or two other Republican Senators.
like Johnson Of California and Norris OF
Nebraska. are not very aePenaaItts nrtsis ~
or these ninety-stN Senators, the
terms of thirty-four end with the pres
pnt session. and their seats are TO DC
filled at the coming election. (Ordinar,
lily. only Girty-tw9 senators, ongcnn Iootah. !.
but this year there nre In addition two
Senator's temporarily hllnE uneNplred
tprms-Carter Glass of Virginia ana
Conner Of Alabama.) Omittlng theSe
thirty-four. there remain siNty-two h0iu-
D
ided as follows: ..
Republicans ................... ~ ~
Democrats ........... ...'.''''': 80 -o
; Supcr,icially, these figures would give
. thHyid that the Republicans start E miS
fight for control of the new Senate WIN
an advantage Of six among the mold
over Senators. Barring tho qualifications
in the cases Of Newberry and La FOL
le,te and the others. this is true. But
n docs not follow that this apparent
4. - hn
real The true situation Will be revealed
nv n survey OF the thirty-four contests
to AL the vacancies which will bc deter
mined on Tuesday.
In the thirty-fuur contests next tues
dav, the Senators who now MI the seats
concerned arc divided aS follows; -
IHmocrals '..'' *
Republicans ''..''. - ''''' a.,
Among these nineteen Democratic
s,Sl,S nine are in Southern states. when
,iwI>S go Democratic Without any
doubt these nine contests Will result IN
favor nC the Democrats. These nine
seats are in the following States:
Virginia. Georgia
North Carolina. AlaNllnl ~
South Carolina louisiana
Florida Arkansas
There remain ten Democratic seats
which may conceivably 60 one way or
the other These ten goI}r Drm9SESt;e PSkc,a seats
Maryland Idaho
Kentucky NEVADA
Oklahoma tHi!tnrhia
Colorado ARIZONA
Oregon i.
Jusl az I have said that there are nine
pemoCratic seats which are not really
subject tn contest. so among the hlieen
seats now held by Republicans ana 10
br contested on Tuesday there are three
in which the Republicans will win just
MS surely as the Southern Democrats
will win. Those three are:
Pennsylvania Vermont
Kansas ,,,, .oo,s
"a 70 which there arc real contests:
Cornccti~ut Wisconsin
New Hampshire Iowa
New York Missouri
Ohio ian
indiana North Dakota
IiIinoic Washington
, These twelve srats now held hv Re-
nubliCnne in which there ar" real con-
tests. added 70 the ten states now hcII
h,. DrmoCratS in which there Hr" req !,
c2n+ests makes IN all twCnty-tw" real
contests 49,
LIT us consider first what Chanc" the
Pnrublicans have - retain All tnf srNIS
thn, now have taking tho twelve Re
ruhlicar seats rs to which there are
r.o1 contests and beginning In tho Fast:
new Hampshire
First of all New Hampshire: In New
Uamnshirc. George II. Moses Is running
for reelection. Normally. untll very
recently. New Hampshire has been CON
s!drrnd safe Republican state: put
within the past few years II has had out
ono Democratic Senator and In 1915
Wilson carried the state. so that New
Hampshirc must now hc considered as
normally among the doubtful states;
Not ONLY this. but 1t must be admitted
tbat Senator Moses chances OF winning
are, in some degree. less than the nor
, NAL chances Of a Republican In New
Tampshire. He was and is bitter
cndcr'' as to the League Of Nations
and he was opposed to womans sur
. Senator Moses opponent is Raymond
Stevens, a progressive Democrat. WI" :!
few years ago served in Congress. and
who moro RECENTLY served rs a member
of the Shipping Board by appointment
hr President Wilson. The probability ~
(ooutinusd on rage Thirteon-)