The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-11-23
SOME ELECTION REVIEWS

In Tuesdays elections Republic
can control of both branches OF con-
gress was maintained. The usual
reaction against the party IN power
was in evidence, accumulated by the
fact that two years ago an anu.
Democratic landslide swept away all
political moorings.
Local, personal and nationally IT.
relevant issues dominated the poll.
tical situation in many districts and
states, and robbed the general re-
suit of most of it's national signi-
ficanCe.
One of the few straight out fights
along national political lines was IN
the presidents home state OF ONO,
where Simeon D. Fess was elected
Senator by a decisive plurality altho
the Republican state ticket was de-
feated on local issues.
The leading anti-Wilson anti
League Democrat in public life,
James A. Reed, Of Missouri, was re-
elected while Gilbert M. Hitchcock,
of Nebraska, pro-league and pro-
Wilson leader in the senate, was
defeated.
In Massachusetts,, where Senator
Lodge, Republican leader in the
senate fight against the Wilson
league, was elected by a narrow
margin, his opponent, Mr.. Castor,
was an anti-Wilson, anti-league
Democrat, who voted against Wilson
in 1920.
Prohibition, local taxation, the
soldier bonus, the Klu Klux Khan
and other elements not constituting
issues between the parties, played a
large part in the election results.
The most decisive Republican defeat
was in the state Of New York, where
personal and local issues dominated
the situation completely, but had
their national effect in the defeat OF
Senator Calder and of a number OF
Republican candidates for congress.
Reorganization a Task
Complete reorganization of both
senate and house in the next con-
gress will become major task OF
the Republican party for the exer-
tion of it's full strength during the
second two-year period of the Hard
ing administration. Control OF
both branches is assured, and altho
by greatly reduced majorities, with
sufficient margin to maintain party
support behind the president.
The Republicans will thus elect
the chairman and dominate the COM
mittees in the important revision OF
the committee assignments which
will be necessitated in the senate,
and will elect the speaker and floor
leader, and the other party man
ayers in the house. Latest returns
indicated that the Republicans will
CONTROL the house in the Sixty
eighth congress by majority OF
perhaps twenty, and the senate by
majority of from eight to ten.
A considerable reorganization will
also be required in the house, which
will witness the departure of Frank
w. Mondell, floor leader, Phillip P.
Champbell, chairman of rules, and
Joseph w. Fordney, chairman OF
ways and means. These were not
candidates for reelection.
Others were beaten in the race
for congress who hold important
committee places, altho James R.
Mann, one of the most powerful Of
the Republican leaders; Chairman
Madden, of the committee on ap-
propriators: Nicholas Longworth, of
the ways and means committee; and
Samuel E. Winslow, chairman of in
terstate and foreign commerce,
were reelected.
In the thirty-three states which
elected Senators this year, fifteen
senators were elected in states
which were represented in the
senate by Democrats and eighteen in
those represented by Republicans.
OF their fifteen, the Democrats have
certainly lost two-Nebraska where
Gilbert M. Hitchcock was defeated
by R. B. Howell, and Ohio, where
Simeon D. Fess defeats Senator
Pomerene-and possibly a third,
Utah, where late reports to Repub-
lican headquarters indicated a close
race between Senator William H..
King and Ernest Bamberger, Re-
publican.
OF the contests in eighteen Re-
publican states-Pennsylvania elect
ing two-the Republicans have
definitely lost probably ten states.
The Democratic net gain in the sem
ate, therefore, will be about seven
or eight, and the Republican ma
jority will be reduced from twenty
four to eight or ten.-Exchange.