Evening star., 1938-10-10
GAINS IN ILLINOIS
| SEEN BY c. 0. P.
Indiana, Iowa, Michigan
! Also Are Expected to
: Add to House Total.

Z HISU HiC cAPCOlCu "
: Add to House Total.
This Is the second in a series of
6rttcles analyzing the Republican
drfpe to Utn back House seats.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.
Illinois should give the Republicans
! 10 more House seats, Indiana, 5;
iowa, 4; Michigan, According to an
independent, impartial survey just
Completed on contests in 352 congress
aional districts in AZ States.
e The conclusions regarding Illinois
Gre based on three considerations:
First, that there is very decided and
widespread discomfort against the New
Deal administrations revolt by the
farmers on compulsory crop control
and "meddlesome bureaucratic domi-
nation from Washington" with Illinois
the center of this protest by ballots.
Second, that these districts were won
by the Democratic incumbents by
very slight majority in the 1886 presi
DENTAL election year. Third, that
these districts are historically Re-
publican.
Representative j. Will Otter, vice
chairman of the Republican Congress
Gonal Committee, emphasizes this
most significant fact in national
politics today" calling attention that
"heavy imports of farm products
under the Roosevelt-Hun reciprocal
trade treaties are tending to drive the
American farmers from their own
home markets, and to force them to
price competition with the peasants of
bankrupt Europe and the rice-and-
water producers Of the Orient"
He says: Continuance of this New
Deal policy for two more years would
mean a lower standard of living in
every farm home in America. The be-
ginning Of this development we al
ready see in today's ruinous farm
prices. The disastrous agricultural
policies of the last five years cannot
be ameliorated by mere shutting of
The Wallace bureaucracy The de-
partmental reorganization, just an
nounced presents last desperate at
II.
The new arrangement of Offices and
powers in the department merely
seeks to force the rejected and repudi-
ated Wallace schemes upon American
agriculture.
Demands Protection.
what the American farmers want
qemand-is prosperity crops, not
sonable tariff protection in their home
markets. At the polling booths on No.
vember 8 the American farmers al
ways the foremost defenders of orderly
constitutional government, will pro-
claim new declaration of independ-
independence of a dictatorial
bureaucracy of experimental collectiv-
lists"
With this revolt centering in Illi-
nois. 1t is general rule that if the
Democratic incumbent did not re-
tain his seat, or win it, by a substan-
tial majority in the last election "a
presidential year, by the way) he
hasn't much chance in the election
this year-with an aroused public SEN
timent. Yet-Representative Lewis L.
Boyer, Democrat, in the fifteenth dis
trict, held his seat by one-half of
per cent of the votes cast. His Re-
publican opponent in this election is |
r. B. Chipperfeld, and it is a veteran |
Republican district held formerly for
many years by Edward j. King and
Burnett M. Chipperfield Representa-
tive Frank w. Fries, Democrat, in the
twenty-first district, held his seat by
only IL per cent Of the votes-the old
Benjamin F. Marsh, Loren E. Wheeler
and Frank M. Ramey district. Repre-
sentative Claud v. Parsons Democrat,
IN the twenty-fourth district, also held
his seat by only IL per cent of the
votes-the old Thomas S. Williams
district. Representative James A.
Meeks, Democrat, in the eighteenth
district, held his seat by only 3.8 per
cent of the vote-the old Uncle Joe"
Cannon and William P. Holiday dis
trict.
Representative Kent, Democrat, in
the twenty-fifth district, who is chair
man OF the Library Committee, held
his seat by only 3.9 per cent of the
vote-and this is the old Edward
E. Denison district. Representative
Chester Thompson, Democrat, in the
fourteenth district, held his seat by
only As per cent-the old William
j. Graham and John C. Allen district.
Representative Lawrence F. Arnold,
Democrat, in the twenty third district
held his seat by only So per cent
the old Edwin B. Brooks district.
Representative Arthur w. Mitchell,
Democrat-colored-in the first dis
tr1ct, held his seat by only 5.3 per cent
the old Martin F. Madden and Oscar
de Priest district. Representative
Raymond S. McKeough, Democrat, in
the second district, held his seat by
only SIS per cent-the old James r,
Mann, Morton G. Hull and P. H.
Moynihan district. Representative
Hugh M. Rigney, Democrat, in the
nineteenth district, held on by ST. per
cent-the old Allen F. Moore and
Charles Adkins district. Representa-
tive Scott w. Lucas, now a candidate
for the Senate, whose Democratic
nominee successor is James NJ Barnes, |
held on by only 6.8 per cent-the old
Guy L. Shaw district, also served by
the late Speaker Henry T. Rainey.
Representative Edwin NJ Schafer,
Democrat in the twenty-second dis
trict, won out by 81 per cent-the
old William A. Rodenberg, Edward NJ |
Irwin district. Representative James |
McAndrews, in the ninth district, won |
by go per cent-the old Fred A. Brit
ten district. Representative Edward
A. Kelly, Democrat, in the third dis
trict, won by 9.6 per cent in the old
Elliott w. Sproul district
Illinois Once Solid"
Time was only few years ago when
Illinois sent a practically solid dele
cation to the House. Those other dis
tricts were represented by such men as
Representative John j. German, Carl