Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-11-15
DEMOCRATIC
GAINS Seen
IN HOUSE

approached it's final days, Repub-
lican stump speakers renewed
claims that Democratic tide had
been checked if not reversed but
impartial surveys still indicated
that substantial Democratic gains
were in prospect in the House as
we'll as in the Senate.
Major elements in the Demo-
cratic calculations were the fact
that Pres. Eisenhower, with his
strong personal pulling power to-
ward straight Republican party
ballots, is not running for office
this year, and the Democrats have
"basic strength" because in "all but
three states the Democrats have
the leading statewide candidate
either for governor of senator" to
head the party ticket.
See 30-Seat Gain
Democrats said that "mini-
mum" shift of 80 House seats was
in prospect and that the gains
might run to 40 or so seats.
Membership of the House in the
85th Congress was 235 Democrats,
200 Republicans. A shift of 80
seats would give northern and
western Democrats heavily incre-
ased influence that might play a
major part in the framing Of leg
islation next year on housing, mini
mum wages, jobless compensation,
distressed areas, aid to the schools
and other issues of deep concern
70 labor.
Vice Pres. Nixon, joined for the
last two weeks by Pres. Eisen-
hover, carried the brunt of the
COP campaign to cut Republican
losses, and in New England he
made the flat claim that the swing
to Democrats had been checked.
Democratic campaigners, stung
by charges that their northern and
western candidates were radicals"
threatening American democracy,
nit back hard.
Adlai E. Stevenson in Chicago,
charging Eisenhower and Nixon
by Name with ultimate demag-
oguery,' stressed the TRANSFORMED
ton of roles for the President and
Vice President.
Old Nixon, New Ike
F, 1.-THE old Nixon" he said, "has
been Joined by the new Ike-or q
new speech writer-in desperate,
intolerable type of campaign"
Contests for the House frequent
ly depend more directly on special
local district situations than dc
statewide campaigns, but an analy-
sis of the House races across the
country indicated that Democratic
gains we're in prospect from the
Pacific Coast through the midwest.
ern farm belt and into the indus.
trial East.
A heavy vote on the West Coast
where Republican and big bushes.
attacks on labor have created thu
principal issue for the election, j!
expected to bring Democratic vic
tories in congressional district.
now held by Republicans in Cali
fornia and Washington.
Shifts in the Rocky Mountain
states are expected to be relativel,
small, but Democrats have hopes
of picking up seats in Colorado
and Wyoming.
COP 'Heartland' In Danger
Additional Democratic gains ar.
in prospect in what Pres. Essen
hover in q Chicago speech callet
the ''heartland" in which for years
right-wing Republicans have domi
mated the elections.
Congressional districts believe<
to offer Democrats 1T least m ever
prospect range from Minnesota and
North Dakota to the Appalachians
with seats considered likely t.
change hands in Wisconsin, Iowa
Michigan, Missouri, Indiana and
Ohio.
An expected surge Of Demo
cratic votes in southern New Eng
land and in the industrial states Of
the Mid-Atlantic area, hard hit BY
/ the recession and continuing un
employment, is considered likely t.
result in Democratic House vic
i tories in Connecticut, Massachu,
sets. New York, Pennsylvania
New. Jersey, Maryland and West