Show CONTROL OF THE HOUSE no ground for that daco desso crt crate will be with its it usual penchant tor for exploiting ware a besu the new york lork herald has h figured out a statistical possibility that the th lection election return returns on the night ot of november 8 will show a democratic house ot of 11 it also thinks the R republicans may elect their national ticket and still lose the th house by it large majority it IN I 1 interesting to observe the tb jag jug fling gling with out of 0 which this marts mares nest is constructed As we all know the present membership of the house is divided into republic can cans democrats 2 union labor democrat democrats and 4 vacancies cles the lican majority being 34 the herald expert figures that there are safe democratic dis districts and only safe for the republicans making it necessary for or the latter to win 39 ot of the 71 doubt fal districts to secure a majority while the former would only need 30 36 but the herald is confronted by the fact that of these 71 so called doubtful seats the democrats now only occupy IS 13 to 53 held down more or less securely by republican republicans nothing daunted by this untoward condition it proceeds to talk glibly of giving six so o called doubtful seats in illinois fire la india indiana two in la iowa three in kansas two in minnesota tour four in nebraska six in 11 ohio eye tn in pennsylvania and fir in X wisconsin iscon sin to the democrats now how this is accomplished may be b best illustrated and exposed by the car case as stated in regard to illinois the six districts placed in the doubtful column are the first and twenty fourth now held by democrats the sixth ninth twenty second and twenty fifth by republicans public ans A considerable redaction in the republican vote la in the state says this happy conjurer by the hope that Is in it might easily result in the election of six democrats from the thea districts verily it might result in the election of six air dodos were it not for the fact ct that the dodo Is an in extinct bird in IW 1902 which was an off year for republicans tn in illinois martin em erieg democrat was elected in the first a strong republican district i by a plurality of 1152 but solely by reason of a fierce factional fight within the it lie publican ranks which has subsided congressman lorimer republican had a plurality of only in the sixth where the normal party majority Is to over 8 he Is not meeting the sam same opposition this year congressman bou ben tell bad bid a plurality of 2 la in the ninth Us ills personal popularity alone insures bis big election reelection re by an increased plurality congressman rodenberg had a alor plurality ai I 1 ty of 2 la in the twenty second sail the dit district triet Is 12 good for an increased can con margin congressman smith bad a plurality of 2 in the twenty fifth which la 11 more likely to be doubled than reduced next november 1 of all an the illinois districts mentioned as doubtful the twenty fourth which congressman william carried by in ija 1 Is to the only one where the democrate democrats stand a possible show in 1904 and there the strength of the republican national and state tickets promises mr williams relief from further attend ance once in the house of representatives mcenulty carried the th counties la in this district by over 2200 2 plurality in 1900 thus with at least sir air of the pos in the herald heralds a mare mares nest in one state addled and with it like abaly els sis reve revealing alint similar conditions in all the others there Is good ground tor for assum ing that the republicans will not only retain their present ascendancy tn in the tb house ions of representatives but will hare bare aa an increased majority la int the tb fifty ninth congress |