The Cordova daily times., 1922-09-20
LONCW0RTH IS SLATED TO BE
 NEXT LEADER

WASHINGTON, Sept 20. - Unless the tickle voter decrees otherwise in November, it is entirely probable that the sovereign State of Ohio, already possessed of the Presidency and a host of other political honors, will add to it's imposing array of Federal posi- tions by taking over the Republican leadership of the next House of Rep resentatives.
 Mick" Longworth, of Cincinnati, veteran of nearly twenty years of ser vice in Congress, is the man. The voters can spoil plans now in the mak- ing by turning control of Congress over to the Democrats in November, or by refusing to send the husband of Alice Roosevelt back to Washington. Both of these contingencies are con- sidered remote.
 OLD LEADERS GOING
 The leaders of the present Congress are gone-or going With the excep- tion of Speaker Gillett, of Massacchu- setts, most of the other principal lead CTS of the Sixty-seventh Congress will be missing when the roll for the Sixty eighth is called.
 Mondell, of Wyoming, is running for the Senate; Fordney, of Michigan, is retiring of his own volition; Campbell, of Kansas, was licked in the primar- ies; Fess, of Ohio, is running for the Senate; Walsh, of Massachusetts, has taken a judgeship; "Uncle Joe" Can non, of Illinois, is voluntarily retiring after nearly half a century of intimate i contact with the House. Others are likely to go in the primaries or in the autumn.
 The elimination of these elders has brought the question of Republican leadership in the Sixty-eighth Con- gress sharply to the fore. a
 Longworth apparently stands in the direct line of succession, although he won't be elected without a fight Sid ney Anderson, of Minnesota, arrived at the point of consideration at about the same time.
 Both Anderson and Longworth are lawyers, as are 75 per cent of the members of Congress. The tall Min nesotan, however, is looked upon as an | tot Q chairman of the joint committee which conducted far-reaching investigation | into agricultural conditions, and he has been leader in the Agricultural Bloc.
 ANDERSON YOUNGER MAN
 Anderson is one of the younger men in the House. He will celebrate his fortieth birthday on September IT, and he is now in his twelfth year in the House, which means that he came down to Washington at the tender age of twenty-eight
 The agricultural element in the House, embracing midwest and far West representatives, will make strenuous effort to have the lanky Minnesotan the leader of the next House. It is considered doubtful, however, if they can muster the votes to put him across.
 "Nick" Longworth has eighteen years of Congress behind him. He is fifty-two years old and has been in Congress continually since the Fifty eighth except for two years. He lost out in the Democratic sweep that car ried Woodrow Wilson into the Presi- dency in 1912, but two years later he came again and has been in Wash ington ever since.
 Longworth has been one of the small band of men that directed the des- tinies of the present House. He is a member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee.
 It is said of Longworth that there is no more able parliamentarian or legislative strategist in Congress. TO these abilities he adds an acquaint- anceship that few men in Congress possess.
 The industrial East is expected to combat the agricultural West for the leadership of the next House.