South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-01-09
1922 WILL NOT BE
AN "OFF YEAR" IN
POLITICAL FIELD
Ohio Will be Principal Battle.
ground in Important
Fall Elections.

WASHINGTON. Jan. S.-The year
1922 promises TO be a memorable
one in political annals. 1t is obvi-
Gus from the following program that
there will be no adjournment Of poll
tics in this new year:
l. An entire new house OF rep
.resentatives of 435 members is OF be
elected.
2. ThirtytwO members Of the
senate are 10 be elected In as many
states.
3. Governors and other state Of
ficials are 20 be choren in "a states.
Ordinarily the congressional cleo
ton in the year midway between
congressional elections is accounted
an off, year in national politics.
Indications now are that 1922 will
be decidedly an ION" year, II such
an expression is permissible.
United and rejuvenated under Cor
dell Hull. OF Tennessee, the new
chairman of the democratic national
committee, and Arthur p. Rouse, OF
Kentucky, the new chairman of the
democratic congressional committee,
the democrats are planning TO make
the November election a nationwide
referendum on the Harding admin
istration.
Confident OF increasing substan-
TALLY their representation IN both
house and senate, they will be pre-
pared to claim that their gains indi-
cate a rapid waning OF republican
strength and point to the election OF
a democratic president arp the re-
gaining OF control Of both branches
OF congress IN 1924.
Republicans, led by John T.
Adams. chairman Of the republican
national committee. will welcome the
democratic challenge and. certain
OF the presidents popularity. Will
fight for vindication OF the admin
istration's acts and policies.
Because Ohio is Harding's home
state the democratic chiefs are plan
ground.
A sweeping democratic victory in
the Buckeye state, they believe,
would have a tremendous moral eff
feet throughout the country. pep
up" respondent and disinterested
democrats everywhere and prepare
the way for a glorious democratic
back two years later.
In the hope Of being able 70 ad-
vertise. far and wide, that Harding
has been repudiated IN his own state
democratic spelibinders from every
section Of the country will be as
signed 20 spill out their oratory on
Ohio soil Not 10 be outdone. and
"a king no cbaucaS with the freach-
erous reactions OF politics, the re-
publicans will send to combat the
enemy propagandists a regiment Of
stalwart C. o. 2. leaders. which will
include cabinet members, senator's
and house leaders.
While Ohio Is 70 be the main ring
in the 1922 political circus. such
other pivotal states as New York,
New Jersey. Indiana and Illinois will
not be neglected either by the re-
publicans or the democrats.
There are now sol republicans
1872 democrats. one socialist and one
vancancy in the house membership.
Republican leaders understand per-
fectly that the Harding avalanche Of
1920 swept into the house many re-
publicans from normally democratic
districts who Will probably be de-
feated for reelection next Novem-
Der. Nevertheless. under the leader
ship OF Representative S. d. Fess. OF
Ohio. chairman OF the republican
congressional committee, they will
strive valiantly 10 keep these losses
20 a minimum