The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-04
BY GEORGE R. HOLMES, International News Service Staff
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Washington, Sept 4-Unless the fckle voter decrees otherwise in No vember, it is entirely probable that the sovereign State of Ohio, already possessed of the presidency and a host of other political honors, will add to it's imposing array of Federal po- sitions by taking over the Republican leadership of the next House of Rep resentatives.
 Nick" Longworth, of Cincinnati, veteran of nearly twenty years of ser vice in Congress is the man. The vo- terS can spoil plans now in making by turning control of Congress over to the Democrats in November, or by refusing to send the husband of Alice Roosevelt back to Washington. Both of these contingencies are considered remote.
 Old Leaders Going. The leaders of the present Congress
 are gone-or going. With the excep- ton of Speaker Gil1ett, of Massachu- setts, most of the other principal leaders of the Sixty-seventh Congress Sfxty-eighth is called.
 Mondell, of Wyoming, Is running for the Senate; Fordney, of Michigan. bell, of Kansas, was licked in the primaries; Tess, of Ohio, is running for the Senate; Walsh, of Massachu- sets sets has taken judgeship; Uncle Joe cannon, of Illinois, is voluntar- fly retiring after nearly half cen tury of intimate contact with the House: Others are likely to go in the primaries or in the autumn
 The elimination of these elders has brought the question of Republican leadership in the ty-eighth Con gress sharply to the fore. Longworth apparently stands in the direct line of succession although he won't be elected without a fight Sid ney Anderson, of Minnesota arrived at the point of consideration at about the same time. Both Anderson and Longwortb arc lawyers, as are 75 per cent. of the members of Congress. The tall Min nesotan, however, is looked unon e an agricultural representative Hs was chairman of the joint connoi+- tee which conducted a far-reachine investigation into agricultural consi. ttons, and he has been a leader io the agricultural Bloc. N Anderson Younger Man. Anderson is one of the younge. men in the House. He will celebrate his fortieth birthday on September IT, and he is now in his twelfth year in the House, which means that he came lage of twenty-eight.
 The agricultural element in the House, embracing midwest and far West representatives will make a strenuous effort to have the lanky | Minnesotan the leader of the next House. It is considered doubtful, how ever, if they can muster the votes to put him across.
 Nick" Longworth has eighteen years of Congress behind him. He is fifty two years old and has been in Congress continually since the Fifty l eighth except for two years. He lost
 out in the Democratic sweep that car ried Woodrow Wilson into the Presi- dency in 1912, but two years later he
 came back again and has been in Washington eyer since
 Longworth has been one of the
 small band of men that directed the
 destinies of the present House. He is
 a member of the powerful Ways and | Means Committee.
 It is said of Longworth that there
 is no more able parHam ent tarian OI
 legislative strategist in Congress. To
 these abilities he adds an-acquain-
 tanceship that few men in Congress possess.
 The industrial East is expected tc combat the agricultural West for the | leadership of the next House.