The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-10-08
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1926


and final plans of the respective
party managers completed, the battle
for control of the next Congress,
which will be decided at the polls
November 2, is now on all along the
political front.
From now until election day the
interest of the country at large will
be conferred chiefly on the contest for
control of the Senate, because of its
more spectacular aspect compared
with the struggle for mastery of the
House.
There are thirty five Senators to be
elected to thirty-four seats in Novem
Der, Iowa electing two different
Senators to succeed the late Sena-
tor Cummins, one for the long
and one for the short term.
OF these thirty-four seats, twenty
seven now are held by Republicans
and seven by Democrats. The seven
Democratic seats are in the solid
reelected. The twenty-seven Re-
publican seats include four in nor
mally Democratic States-Maryland
Kentucky, Missouri and Oklahoma
which were swept into the Repub-
lican column in the Harding Landslide
six years ago and the Republicans
naturally are up against hard fight
to retain them.
Altogether there are ten or eleven
States which are debatable ground in
this election, and if the Republicans
should loss even two of them they
would face the danger OF losing
control of the Senate organization.
The regular Republicans already,
as a result of the primaries, have
lost control of the Senate so far as
the passage offthe legislation is con-
cerned. Cummins, Iowa, and Len
root, Wisconsin, regular Republi-
cans, will be replaced in the next
Senate, respectively, by Brookhart
and Blaine, irregular Republicans.
This increases the insurgent Re-
publican bloc to Z, the others being
La Toilette, Wisconsin; Nye, North
Dakota; Frazier, North Dakota;
Norris, Nebraska, and Howell,
Nebraska, not to mention Borah,
Idaho; Johnson, California; Nc
Master, South Dakota, and Norbeck,
South Dakota.
There are 55 Republicans in the
Senate, 40 Democrats and l Farmer
Laborite. 1t takes only seven of the
irregular Republicans voting with
the Democrats to deprive the
G.. o. P. of a majority.
1t is apparent already, therefore,
that the irregular Republicans are
going to hold the balance of power in
the passage of legislation in the ne1t
Senate, and it is possible they will
do so in the organization of the
Senate and will force the regulars to
make terms with them.
If the Democrats should capture no
more than one of the twepty-seven
Republican seats at issue, the regular
Republicans would need the support
of all their regulars. including La
Toilette, Nye, Blaine, Brookhart and
Frazier, to organize the Senate and
constitute the committees with
Republican majorities.
If the Democrats should win four
or five Republican seats, two or
three radical Republicans would
have it in their power to throw the
organization into the hands of the
Democrats. Two of these radical
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Fraz-
ier-were read out of the party in
this Congress and deprived of Iowa's
assignments as Republicans.
The prospect, therefore, is unless
the Democrats fail to make any in
roads on the Republicans in the
election the regular Republicans will
need the insurgents so badly for
organization purposes that they will
take Brookhart and Frazier back
into the the fold and come to terms
with all the radicals on Iowa
assignments.