The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-25
c. O.P.PROBLEM
IS To RETAIN
SENATE
Leaders Want President to
Help Out by Speeches in
Doubtful States.
BY WILLIAM HARD.


they retain the House of Repre-
sentatives, they yet may lose the
Senate and may thus see the
country's foreign policy pass back
to the ultimate control of the Demo
Gratis and of Woodrow Wilson.
Republican politicians are besieg-
ing the Presidents friends to induce
him to arrange his approaching
Western trip in such a way as
to touch and influence the States
which the Democrats are sure they
will take away from the Re-
publicans in next years. Senatorial
elections.
Senator Pat Harrison OF Missis.
sippi, the tireless scout and stalker
and bushbeater of the Democratic
party, is off on a speaking and
looking and listening trip which
began this week in New Mexico,
and which will continue into Okla
homa and then carry him north
ward into and through the Middle
West.
Harrison Touring.
Senator Harrison and ell other
Democratic specialists in political
calculations are counting with GER
tainty on at least six Republican
Senatorial eggs which in 1924. they
believe, will produce Democratic
chickens.
In their optimistic publicity mo.
ments, they can count ten or twelve
such eggs. When removed from
the presence of journalistic aHnpli-
fiers and Gained down by privacy
and crackers and cold milk in the
Senatorial lunchroonl, they still can
count six.
These six would give them a ma
jority in the Senate even II Henrik
Shipstead, the Farmer-Laborite from!
Minnesota, should vote with the Re-
publicans, and even If Henrik Ship
stead's coming colleague from Min
nesota, who will be elected to sue
coed Knute Nelson. should also vote
with the Republicans.
A complete analysis of the Sena-
torial situation shows that Ger.
tain degree of Democratic optimism
is justified. It shows that the visit
which Senator Moses, chairman OF
the Republican Senatorial campaign
committee, made to the White
House this week was amply de-
manded by the task which Senator
Moses committee Is facing. 1t may
he taken for granted, however. that
Senator Moses, who, besides being a
Republican. Is an irreconcilable.
will fill the country with the largest
dose it ever had of Republican
irreconcilable oratory before he sur
renders the Foreign Relations Com.
mittee of the Senate back to a
majority of Democratic Wilsonians.
Facts nm Situation
The Senatorial facts which pro.
vide joy to the Democrats are as
follows:
Next year the number of Senators
to be reelected will be the biennial
number. namely, thirty.two. That
is there will be thirty-two Senators
who will have to run the risk OF
losing their seats.
OF this number only fourteen are
Democrats
OF these fourteen there are nine
who really will run no risk at all
They come from the solid South
OF the remaining five there are
three who, according to the Demo
Gratis, run only an almost invisible
risk. They come from the semi
solid South" from Tennessee, from
Kentucky, from Oklahoma.
The remaining two are from the
North. Among ell the fourteen
Democratic Senators seeking re.elec
ton next year there are just these
two who will have to deal with
Northern constituencies.
One of them IS Walsh of Mon
tana. The other is Walsh of Mas
sachusetts. Montana is a normally
10 60 % 4.
admit, however, that there are
many Republicans in Massachusetts
Massachusetts, IN fact Is the one
State where the Democrats admit
that a sitting Democratic Senator
will next year have to fight in
order to be returned.
Meanwhile the number Of Renuh
lican sitting Senators who will have
to seek reelection next wear Is
eighteen.
Grouped Into Classes.
These eighteen can be put into
three classes according to the
present political and personal shad
ings OF their States:
MAINE, Michigan, Illinois. lowe.
Minnesota. South Dakota, Idaho
Wyoming and Oregon are claimed
without question by the Republicans
or, in the case of Minnesota nv this
Farmer-Laborites. and these claims
are only feebly disputed bv the
Democrats.
New Hampshire, Kansas. and
Nebraska. because Of recent Demo
cratic victories In the first two anG
because Of former Senator Hitchcock
in the third, are regarded as scenes
Of hopeful contest by both sides,
3-Rhode Island, New Jersey
Delaware, West Virginia, Colorado
and New Mexico are regarded bv the
Democrats as plums that will faI
into their laps with nothing much r.
do about it except provide the lans
and the Republicans, while far from
conceding that these plums will gc
to the Democrats without their hav
ing to shake for them, are admittine
that the shaking is fairly good.
1t all sums up into the following
condensed prospect:
The Democrats next year-unless
next year brings political earth
quakes-could not really possibly
lose more than one or two seats to
the Republicans.