Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-27
THE CONGRESSIONAL
CAMPAIGN.

in getting under way. In IdCe INC
political committees have been
mostly engaged in preliminary or
eanization work both at Washing
on and in the various states. But
the first of next month will c the
political campaign in full blast IN
all the states of the Union. 1t is
bound to be a short campaign, five
or six weeks at most. 1t IS not a
long time to overcome a good deal
of indifference in most sections OF
the country. The democrats go into
the campaign with high hopes. They
expect to gain the lower house OF
congress, and reduce the majority
in the senate. They feel sure that
there is general disapproval of the
acts of the administration in many
places. The embarrassing Of Sen
ator Newberry and the rewarding
of his corruption agents with ted
eral offices by the president have
unquestionably lost the administra-
ton votes. The tariff bill will
also lose them some votes, but not
as many next November as they
will lose two years from that time
when the average citizen learns
how much his cost of living has
been raised by the republican tariff
bill. There is not time between
now and election day for them to
fully realize what it has done to
prices of the things they must pur-
chase.
Independent reports from Wash
ington say the republican leaders
admit in advance that they expect
some loss of majority in the lower
house of congress, and feel that
such loss will do them no harm but
rather the contrary as their present
party majority is unwieldy. They
realize that the 1920 election was
abnormal and that they elected
their candidates in many congress
sional districts that are normally
democratic, and will this year re-
t,,rn democrats. For instance both
members of the lower house IT
Montana are republicans at pres
emf. No possible gain in the lower
house can be made in this state
but it is possible that they may
lose two. The first district where
ex-Congressman Evans is running
against the present republican IN
cumbent, Mr.. Mccormick, is nor
mslly a democratic district. Th'
second district where Scott LeaV
lit, the republican candidate, II
running against P. B. Moss the
democratic candidate, is normally
a republican district. Yet there /;
a growing feeling in the second dis
trict that Mr.. Moss has a gooc
show of election because OF hi
superior mental qualifications anc
personal popularity. A good many
republicans are rather sore because
Mr.. Burlingame a not nominal
ed. He is regarded as a man O
superior mental equipment and pc
litical experience as compared witt
the successful candidate, Mr.. Scot
Leavitt. They say with every v
dence of truth and reason that hat
Mr.. Burlingame and Mr.. Leavit
been the only two candidates IN tn
republican primary Burllngam'
would have won the nomination
with ease, but a multiplicity OF re
publican candidates aborted mucf
of the Burlingame vote while thu
Leavitt vote under the manipula
tions of Rev. Pope and the churches
was welded into a solid block tina
won him a slight plurality IN a tick
of nine candidates. Some OF thu
friends of these candidates have al
ready announced their intention o:
voting for the democratic candi
date, Mr.. Moss, by way OF voiclnt
their dissatisfaction and protest
The democratic candidate has NJ
such handicap. He had no opposl
ten in his party primary for tn
nomination, and his personal popu
larity is very great in the section
of the district where he has live'
so long, and his good reputation
has spread to all parts of the dis
trict. While the normal state o
the second congressional district il
Montana is republican it would no
surprise US to see Mr.. Moss revers,
it and come in a winner next No
vember. J
On the question of the senatoria
election there is no chance for tn
democrats to gain anything. Bot
senators from this state are at pres
ent democrats. The republican