The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-06
Republican Party Expects Poll
cies To Be Endorsed.
Possible Gains Will Bring Hap
piness to Democrats.
G. 0. P. TO KEEP CONTROL
Reduction in MaiOrities Only
Hope of Other Side.
Campaign Has Been Featured
by Many Bitter Fights.

New York, Nov. 6.-The country
ton today with every SURFACE indica-
tion today with every surface indicka-
ton pointing to continued control of
congress by the Republicans for an
other two years-altho by greatly re-
duced majorities.
Nothing short of political miracle
can tale control of the senate away
from the Republicans. Even the
Dem ocrats admit this, altho they hope
to reduce slightly the present Repub-
lican majority of "a.
There is, in the opinion of most
unbiased political observers. a posi-
biIity that the house of representa-
tives will be taken away from the Re
publicanS tomorrow, but the posi-
bility is of so pale a hue that the
Democrats refrain from predicting it.
CordeIl Hull. chairman of the
Democratic national committee. con-
tented himself today with d final pre-
diction that the Democratic victory
will be greater and more widespread"
than previously thought, but he ju-
diciously refrained from claiming con-
troll of either house.
John T. Adams, chairman of the
Republican national committee, pre-
2s in the senate and a normal Re
publican majority of around forty
seats in the house.
Both To Be Winner.
Whatever be the result, il will be
accepted by both Democrats and Re-
publicans as constituting a victory.
The Republicans will consider their
continued control of congress as an
endorsement of the party's two-year
record; the Democrats will consider it
a siZeable victory to recover most of
the ground lost in the great Republic
can tidal wave of 1890
1t is in the great states like New
York, Ohio. Indiana and New Jersey
that the Democrats figure to make
their chief gains. In all these states,
the outlook twenty-four hours in ad-
vance of the opening of the polls is
that many congressional districts viii
be won back by the Democrats
Ohio, for instance, has a solid Re-
publican delegation of twenty-five III
the present house. The Democrats
claim fifteen of these tomorrow and
Republican leaders are inclined to be-
lieve that they viii pick up nearly
publican delegation of thirteen and
the Democrats claim q majority of
these; Missouri has fourteen Repub-
icanS and two Democrats in the pres
ing to see the polltIraI lineup COM
pletely reversed.
The situation, as it affects the
house. has defied accurate analysis
outward rdly predicting the usual VIC
tories, privately they CONFESS they can
only guess at tomorrow's figures. The
usual tables and charts which have
served in the past to indicate the. way
the political wind is blowing lave
been proved almost useless this year.
No Single Issue.
Party leaders ascribe this to the
ack of a great, single outstanding is
sue such as divided the two major
parties in 1920. Instead of dealing
With single issue, such as the oa.rIe
of Nations, Republican and Der
cratic speakers have been ca'l-'
this year to face a Yeritahie pot pour
ri of issues. ranging all the way from
taxation and traffic to "Droh "a
and Newberryism."
Seldom in two adjacent districts
have the issues been precisely the
same and the result has been a patcn
work of confusion for accurate politi-
cal analysis.
Roughly, taxation, tariff and prohi-
bition are expected to be the big gov
erning issues in the Atlantic sea
board area. In the great grain belt
that stretched from Ohio to the
Rockies, it VIII be the same with the
admitted discomfort in the rural COM
munities probably outstripping any of
the others.
The rough triangle formed by the
state of Ohio, Indiana and Michigan
is to be the cockpit of tomorreSr-s
struggle. Almost evenly divided as to
industry and agriculture, these three
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