Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-14
DEMOCRATS FIGURE
GAIN OF 60 SEATS
In Such an Event Prospects
for Hoover Program
Would BE Black.
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on the face Of the returns by " L.
Palmisano. But only by few hundred
votes Later a committee of the House
declared there had been fraud In the
balloting for Palmisano.
Canvassing the situation State by
State, it appears that the Republicans
stand to lose surely one to two seats in
Indiana, three to five seats In Ken
lucky, a net loss of one to two seats
in Maryland, one seat in Massachusetts,,
two to five seats in Missouri, one to
two seats in Nebraska, one seat in
New Jersey, three seats in Ohio, one
seat in Oklahoma, one to three seats In
PENNSYLVANIA, two to three seats IA, IN
Virginia, one to two seats in west VIZ
GINA. Taking the maximum figures,
this means a loss of 80 seats.
Democratic Gains Seen.
Resolving the doubts in other con-
gressional districts in favor OF the
Democrats would add another 80 seats
to the Republican loss, as follows: Con-
necticut, /: Illinois, 4; Indiana, 3;
Massachusetts, Q; Minnesota, /; Mis-
souri,, Q; Nebraska, /; New York, l;
North Carolina, 2; North Dakota l;
Ohio, Q; Oklahoma, l. oregon. /;
4
nessee, /; Texas, /; Utah, /, and West
Virginia, 2. These losses would be in
addition to those given in the list OF
practically sure losses and would make
the total gross loss of the Republic
cans so seats.
The Democrats are to regain many
of the seats lost to them in the Repub-
lican landslide of 1928. For example,
two years ago the Republicans picked
up six seats which had been held by
the Democrats 1t seems quite clear
this year that the 1923 Hoovercrats in
Kentucky are again Democrats. The
Democrats, in a by-election, following
the death of Republican Represent
alive for the third district, elected their
candidate. They are expected to regain
all five of the other seats which they
lost to the Republicans two years ago.
In the fourth district, one of the five
in question, the Democrats have en-
gagged in factional row and there is
talk of the possibility of the Republic
cans retaining that district, now repre-
sented by j. D. Craddock. Represent
alive Thatcher, Republican, has no
opposition in the Louisville district, and
Mrs. Langley in the tenth district and
Representative Finley in the eleventh
are to be reelected, it is believed.
Worried Over Three States.
The Republicans are greatly worried
over the situation in three of the great
States of the Middle West which have
been strongly Republican in recent
Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. The
high command has sent a number of
national speakers into Indiana already,
including Vice President Curtis and
Senator Fess of Ohio, the Republican
national chairman. The signs of re-
volt against the G. o. P. in both Ohio
and Illinois have been many, too.
The Democrats today hold only 3 In
diana seats in the House and the Re-
publicans 10. There is danger, however.
that the Democrats may have in the
next House as many as seven or eight
Indiana seats.
Reports from Missouri have been to
the effect that @. o. P. stock has taken
a terrible slump. The Republicans NAV
lose as many as seven seats they now
hold there, some of them, indeed, ordi-
narily Democratic, but which went Re-
publican in the wake of the Hoover
presidential craft two years ago. Re-
publican leaders here, however, have
been somewhat heartened over the Mis-
souri, situation in recent days. Things
are not so black, 1t is said, as they
nave pccn painted.
Virginia to Slide Back.
1t seems foregone conclusion that
the three Virginia districts, won by the
Republicans in 1928, will slide back
into the Democratic column. But the
Republicans are putting up a desperate
hight TO retain the two seats they won
In North Carolina. The Republicans
have for years had a strong following
in those districts, the ninth and tenth,
located in the Western part Of the
State. There is a feeling that II the
G. o. P. can hold these districts, a
real entering wedge will have been
made in the solid South which may
bear fruit in the future.
The situation for the Republicans in
the Far West appears to be not nearly
so difficult as in the Middle West and
in certain portions of the East and in
the border States" Economic condi-
lions are better in the Western States.
There Is one feature of the campaign
for congressional seats that sometimes
Is forgotten. The contest for a seat
in the House often revolves around the
personality of the holder. A member
Of the House who is strongly intrenched
In his own district frequently weathers
the political storm which is disastrous
for his party nationally. This fact may
aid number OF Republicans to hold
on to their districts in the November
election.
Trouble in West Virginia.
West Virginia is full of trouble for
the Republicans, 1t is said. While 1t is
believed that they will be able to hang
on to the first and second districts
there, and possibly the fifth, the third
and fourth are likely to go Democratic
On the other hand, 1t is said that the
Republicans actually have a fighting
chance to take the sixth district, which
is now held by Democrat.
Down in Texas, Representative Wurz-
bach, the sole Republican Representa-
tive from the Lone Star State has