The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-07-22
CONTROL OF SENATE
MAJORITY TO Be SMALL
OUTLOOK FOR REPUBLICANS
GooD-NUeENT SCHEDULED
FOR DEFEAT.

The election next November is goinl
TO be almost as important in its bear
ing on the senate as it will be on tn,
presidency. and will determine whethe
the new administration is to have tn,
support of the senate or whether il
will come in handicapped by a senate Of
the opposite party 1t is by no means
certain that the senate will be con-
trolled by the same party which elects
the next president
In the present senate the republi-
cans have a majority of two or one if
Senator Newberry of Michigan is not
included Thirty-two senators are to
be elected next November. and of those
whose terms expire Is are republicans.
OF the II democrats whose terms ex-
pire eight come from the surely dem
ocratic states of the solid south. leav-
Ing only nine senate seats now held by
democrats for which the republicans
can make any real contest, says the
Washington correspondent of the
Boise Statesman.
Viewed from the other standpoint
there are at least six republicans who
are not sure of reelection, any one of
whom may be succeeded by demo-
crat.
At this early stage of the senatorial
campaign it is not possible to deter
mine what will be the complexion of
the next senate.
Among the republicans seeking re-
election, Brandegee of Connecticut
Cummings of Iowa, Curtis of Kansas.
Dillingham; of Vermont. Jones of
Washington. Moses of New Hampshire
and Penrose of Pennsylvania are rea-
sonably sure of reelection. Senator
Gronna of North Dakota can probably /
be counted as sure of return. In Ohio |
a successor must be chosen to Senator
Harding
Senator LenroOt of Wisconsin is be-
ing opposed for denomination by La
Toilette man, Thompson, but Thomp
son, unlike La Toilette, has shown
himself to be fair and square fighter.
and if beaten by Lenroot in the pri-
maries, is expected to lend his support
to the ticket. This will not necessarily
insure LenroOts election, although the
chances would favor his return if the
LaFollette element does not fight him h
Senator Sherman of Illinois is not a .
candidate for reelection. The primar
les in that state will be held in August
and it is almost a safe bet that re- ,
publican will succeed Sherman in the 3,
senate Who that republican will be !
is yet to be determined. {
Reed smoot in Danger. c
No republican senator is in grehter
danger this year than Reed Smot of r
Utah. Shoots state, like Ohio. has b
lately cut away from its old repubu
can mornings, and Senator Smoot is S
facing the hardest fight he has had to a
make since he was first sent to the p
senate The administration and or n
gained labor have combined to de- II
Ieat Smoot and the senator has gone o
home fully aware of what he is I'D '
against. He is hopeful of pulling I
through, but his campaign has not e
developed to give a line on d
lis real prospects. n
Senator Spencer of Missouri, one of IL
he few republicans who has repre- IL
tented that state in the senate, was -
elected in 1918, to fill out the unex- =
bred term of Senator Stone. His cleo "
ion occasioned some surprise, al =,
hough Missouri had turned up in the
epublican column in the Roosevelt
ampaign and once since then. The III
freak between the administration and ~
senator Reed may have a tendency to %
pitt the democracy again, and in that eo
vent Spencer may be returned if he ~
) renominated. The Missouri primar- III
IS will not be held until September. eV
Hot Fight in New York. Do
Two other republican senators, it
vadswrth of New York and Watson wi
I Indiana, are going to have their m,
ands fun this fall Wadsworth has tn
cen the object of frequent and bitter tr,
ttacks by the suffragists because of of
is prominence in his fight against
oman suffrage. Aside from this
yadsworth has made an exceptional
scord in the senate for a new man, "a,
since he became chair
IAN of the committee on military af-
Iirs and judged by his record, he To-
inks well up among the republicans 90,
the senate. New York does not al N.
avs select its senators because of IN,
eir ability, but is more inclined to do Of
than most states. and it would be we
ir at this time to say Wadsworth in
Id more than an even break If he is the
,feated 1t will be the suffrage influ- bu,
ice that eliminates him. AS for Wat oni
H. he halls from a state that always will
anages to stage a real political fight. wa
atson himself is credited with being ed
lie of the shrewdest politicians in vea
diana, and is making it his business fir
is year to help carry Indiana for no,
arding. Republican campaign man rea
ers DeiieVe that watson can be re- pre-
'cted' Out the democrats list indiana abr
state IN which they expect to me
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