The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-06
TROUBLE IS
| COMING IN
| ELECTION
Republicans, Including Wads-
worth, Face Hard Battles.
Democrats Well Off
By GEORGE r. HOLMES.

A story is being told around
the Capitol that one of President
Coolidge's most enthusiastic adj
mirers recently was condoling
with him concerning the fractions
Senate, which had just upset the
tradition of a half century by
denying him the privilege of
selecting his own Attorney Gen.
eral.
When the visitor had roasted
the Senate to a rich and sizzling
brown, and finally had closed the
hoodgates Of his sympathetic out
burst, the President is said to
have -drawled:
Ya-as, and the next one will
be worse"
This reply seems to indicate
that Mr.. Coolidge has been peer
ing into the political future with
his usual penetrating vision. For
the next Senate certainly will be
rse-from the Administrators
standpoint.
Democrats Have Advantage.
The devolving wheel that brings
up one-third of the Senate member
ship for reelection every two years
has tossed up for 1926 an unusual.
e not an unprecedented situation.
Barring miracles, the Republicans
cannot possibly increase their nu.
merical strength IN the Senate In
the next election. and they almost
certainly win lose some seats, ir-
respective Of how popular the
Coolidge Administration may be in
1926.
This fact may or may not ac-
count for the SNUG satisfaction with
which Democrats are regarding the
off-year battle Ton control Of Con-
gregs.
There are tlafrty-two Senators
coming up for reelection a year
from next November. OF this num-
Der only seven are Democrats. The
other twenty-five are Republicans.
This IN ITSELF I'll an unusual di-
vision. But the real joker. is that
the seven Democrats coming up
are all from States Of the solid
South, and their return Is con-
sidered in the same category Of
certainties as death and taxes.
The Senate situation. therefore.
SINNERS down to something like
this.
The Democrats stand to lose moth
ing, and they have a more than
- ~nrfva
control Of the Senate.
Republicans Face Losses.
The Republicans cannot possibly
gain any seats. and they are virtu-
ally certain to lose some.
The seven Democrats up for re-
election are: Broussard, OF Louis
lana; Caraway. Of Arkansas; Fetch
0r, Of Florida; George, OF Georgia;
Overman, OF North Carolina; Smith,
Of South Carolina, and Underwood,
Of Alabama.
Anyone who can envisage a Re-
publican victory in that list Is a fit
candidate for the ribbon as the
worlds premier optimist.
The Republicans up are: Bing-
ham, of Connecticut: Cameron, of
Arizona; Cummins, Of Iowa; Curtis,
Of Kansas; Dale, of Vermont; Ernst,
OF Kentucky; Gooding, Of Idaho;
Harreld, of Oklahoma; jones, of
Washington; Ladd, Of North Da-
kota; Lenroot, of Wisconsin; Nc
Kinley, of Illinois; Means, Of Col
orado; Moses, of New Hampshire:
Norbeck. Of South Dakota; Oddie,
Of Nevada; Pepper, Of Pennsylvania;
Ehortridge, of California; Smoot, Of
Utah; Spencer, of Missouri; STAN
field, Of Oregon; Wadsworth, of New
FORK; Watson, of Indiana; Willis, Of
Ohia. and Weller. of Maryland.
There are fully a dozen in that
HIST that the Democrats feel they
have a fair chance Of beating. Some
Of them they consider certain of de-
feating.
WadswOrth in Danger.
There is Wadsworth, of New
York, for instance. The Democratic
futurists believe that il they can
persuade Governor AL Smith to op.
pose Wadsworth they can defeat
the Republican leader of New York
State, and give the state two Demo
cratic Senators for the first time in
years.
There are Herreld, of Oklahoma;
Weller, of Maryland; Ernst, of Ken
lucky, and Spencer, of Missouri
These States are border States"
They are more often Democratic
than Republican. They are always
doubtful. All save Spencer camo
into the Senate on the crest OF the
Harding landslide in 1920. They
are new Senators.
None Of them has become a lead
ar; none OF them has gained prom
inence enough in the Senate to help
materially in their fight for re-elec-
ton. In these States the Democrats
are supremely confident OF gaining
seats.
Then there are Indiana and Ohio
wherein James Z. Watson and
Frank b. Willis come up for re
election. Both States are always
politically doubtful, shifting back
and forth. In Watson's case he
has not only the Democrats tc
fear, but the factions of his owr
party as well.
The New and Beveridge wings OF