Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-10
THE DEMOCRATIC LAND
SLIDE.

As THE figures OF the national
q election last Tuesday trickle
into Washington the extent of
democratic victory becomes ap-
parent. 1t takes 21s votes to form
a majority Of the house Of repre-
sentatives and the republican par
ty leaders can count only 20o as
surely elected. However, there are
rs congressional districts where
the vote is close and they think
that out of these rs they will sure
1y win enough to give them nine
more votes. At best, however, the
republican majority in the next
house of representatives is small.
The democrats won 81 congress
sional seats from the republicans
and did not lose a single seat to
the republicans. The present low
er house of congress has a repub-
1ican majority Of about 100. The
next house will have a very narrow
republican majority, if it has any
majority at all.
The upper branch of congress
will continue to hold a republican
majority, but rather a small n
at that. The republicans lost eight
seats to the democrats and won
two seats from them. There are,
however, some more republican
senatorial seats in danger where
the vote is close, and in each case
the democratic candidate is lead
ing. One of the most spectacular
senatorial victories for the demo-
Gratis is in Michigan. Not for 70
years has Michigan been represent
ed in the United States senate, as
it will be after March 4the next,
by a democrat, who has defeated
Senator Townsend. The defense
of his colleague, Senator Newber-
~, the boodler, was n factor in
the defeat of Senator Townsend.
He voted for the seating of Sena-
tor Newberry and backed up Pres
ident Harding's championship Of
the Doodle senator. There is no
doubt that this led to his defeat.
1t would be interesting to know
Just how many of the senator's who
voted to sea Newberry lost votes
for that performance that they sad
ly needed.
Henry Cabot Lodge had a mar
row shave for his political life in
Massachusetts, just nosing in a
winner by a few thousands. He
also was one Of the Newberry sup
porters. In Ohio and Nebraska
the democrats lose Senator Pomer-
n and Senator Hitchcock, both
seeking reelection. In Rhode Is
land, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada,
Arizona and New Mexico, all con-
sidered doubtful states from the
republican viewpoint, democratic
senators were reelected. In New
York, New Jersey, Indiana, West
Virginia, Michigan, Maryland and
Washington, democrats will re-
place republicans. These changes
will reduce the republican major
ity to a point where they will need
the votes of Borah, Lafollette and
the new senator from Iowa pretty
badly.
Cordell Hull and several other
prominent democrats who went
down in the republican landslide
of 1920 have returned to congress.
1t is a great democratic victory
all right and the administration can
hardly fail to realize that the rec
ord of congress in the last two
years is far from pleasing to the
voters, and that two years from
now they are likely to make their
d%ispleasure still more emphatic.
One of the unexpected results of
the election was the defeat of SEN
ator Kellogg of Minnesota by Mr..
Shipstead, the n~on-partisan league
candidate for senator. This will
be the first time in many years
that Minnesota has elected to the
United Staets senate any nominee
except the republican party nomi-
nee. It is possible that the Mime
sofa member may have a colleague
from North Dakota in the person
of Ex-Governor Frazier, who is
running againt O'Connor, the dem
ocrtaic candidate. The latter has
a lead of about 1000 over Frazier
with two-thirds of the precincts
counted. But judging from past
experience of election returns from
the state of North Dakota the late
returns will be strongly non-par-