New Britain herald., 1922-09-28


 made to have Mir. Hughes, the secre-
 tary of state: Mir, Weeks, the secre-
 tary of war and Mir, Daugherty, the attorney general, take part. Other government officers who will go on the stump are Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, and John H, Batlett, assistant postmaster The democratic campaign managers
 are not idle. Senator David l. Walsh Of Massachusetts, the new chairman of the democratic senatorial cam
 paign committee, left Washington last
 night for political tour that will
 take him nearly to the Pacific coast
 and will keep him on the move until
 election day in November. Today he
 will confer in Ohio with Senator Pomerene and democratic leaders in regard to democratic chances in that
 state, and will go from there to Mis-
 souri, where he will deliver two | speeches in behalf of the candidacy
 of Senator James A. Reed, who was
 renominated after a bitter contest It is evident that the democratic senatorial committee intends to make
 strong fight to have Senator Reed
 returned. Chairman Walsh said yes | terday that it had been arranged that speeches in Reeds behalf would be | delivered in Missouri by Senators Stanley of Kentucky, Harrison of Mis- i sissippi Caraway of Arkansas and Heflin of Alabama. All these are re- garded as league of nations men, who unlike Mir, Reed stood by President | lt league covenant ratified by the senate
 Will Help Hitchcock. | From Missouri Senator Walsh will go to Omaha to arrange for expend 1 ing help to Senator Hitchcock. who is | candidate for reelection, and | thence to Utah to assist Senator King. In Montana, which he will visit also, there is much trouble in the demo- cratic ranks on account of the de- | lection of Senator Myers, who is not a candidate to succeed himself. Mon tana democratic managers fear that | Senator Myers will take the stump | for Representative Carl w. Riddick, | the republican nominee or senator. | Mir. Walsh will visit Arizona, New Mexico. Nevada, Michigan, Indiana l last period of the campaign in New
 York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
 The situation is now distinctly fla vorable to the democrats" said Sena- tor Walsh last evening. The trend lsI in the democratic direction. Whether | the republicans will be able to check | it is something that only the election outcome will determine. The results in many of the republican senatorial primary contest indicated extreme dissatisfaction with the republican party" ..... The republican political managers apparently have no great fear that the democrats will control the next senate and house. What they do fear is that the republican majority | in both houses may be so reduced that it will be difficult to enact legis- lation and to carry out administration policies The present republican ma jorty in the senate is 24, in the house it is 166. Only a democratic tidal wave can overturn these leads. There is admitted considerable chance. however. that the majorities | in both houses will be reduced to fig | ures dangerously low.
 G. Q. P. Expects Reduction.
 The republicans seem to be recon ciled to the expectation that there will be a very heavy reduction in their house majority. This will be natural, they say, because the Hard ing wave of 1920 was abnormal and carried into the senate and the house many republican candidates in states and congressional districts which were normally democratic. As to the senate, little forecastng is done for the senatorial campaign sit nation is involved in too much uncer- tainty. That the republicans will lose seat from Maryland through the defeat of Senator Joseph l. France seems to be generally believed, but in more than dozen states which will elect senators this year the outcome Of the contests are uncertain.
 The republicans will make a drive to gain democratic seats in Rhode Is- land, Nebraska, New Mexico, Wyom- ing, Utah, Tennessee. Montana, Ne vada, Ohio and Missouri.
 Many of the senatorial and con- gressional contests are subordinate to local contests or are deeply involved in local issues. Modification of the Nostead act will figure as an issue in number of states. It will be clean cut in New Jersey as between Frelinghuysen and Edwards, while in Ohio where it is a state but not a national issue, it is nevertheless cer- tain to involve the senatorial contest with the AntiSaloon league endorsing the candidacy of Representative Fess. the republican choice. and refusing to endorse the candidacy of Senator Pomerene.
 The main concern of republican leaders and managers over the con gressional outlook pertains to the east, including Ohio and Indiana They are now fairly comfortable in their minds they say, with reference to the west, with here and there district now represented by a repub- ican, which has shown signs of 8 1emot ratio trend. This, of course, is an extremely optimistic view What loes concern the old line republicans, however, is the likelihood that many of the republican cardidates for con- yress in the west will develop ex- { rene radical tendencies if they are {