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I tUn have h become perilous In the ee e. extreme reme reme D DEMOCRATIC NEED Democrats need to o capture ninee nine Jf Republican e seats seats' to obtain control o othe the next t senate and win at least twenty-five twenty seats to possess a bare barer ni r majority In the next t house It Is iso o y the most optimistic Democratic l leaders aders who believe belle that they willse will se sc ro such a gain grain They have a real C chance ance ante of ot electing six Democrats to tos s supplant plant sitting Republican senat sena- sena t s Tydings In n Maryland BarkIn Bark- Bark in Kentucky Hawes In Missouri Mis Mis- Thomas In Oklahoma Hayden Hay Hay- d den deh in Arizona and Woollen in Democrats have ha somewhat favorable I prospects of ot winning F senatorial seats In Ohio with Bert Haney In Nevada with Raymond Ramond Baker In Colorado with William WilliamI I Sweet and In Indiana with Alb Albejt Al- Al b pst Stump They have a fighting c c nee nce In Idaho with James F F. Nug Nu Nu- g ent nt In Washington state with ott Bullitt mong imong the fifteen states above abovementioned abovementioned mentioned ea each h one of ot which must bt classed as doubtful there Is Isa a ample oPP oPPortunitY opportunity for tor a cj h t debacle It is this writers writer's judgment Judgment judgment Judg judg- ment that the presidents president's party will wl escape complete disaster In the sena senat sen- sen a at 1 f 1 e e. e outright loss of ot control to tot t e Democrats Democrats but but will have Its p present event strength of six fifty cut d wn to at least fifty tiny leaving the Democrats with five forty Instead o their present 39 With the sup- sup j i wrt rt of the one Farmer- Farmer labor bor senator and only four or five insurgent Republicans of ot the Borah- Borah Blaine LaFollette Follette La I 4 l t e the Democrats could pIa play t f jg aI havoc with Coolidge measures measures meas meas- I ures and policies In the short ses session sest t sign sion n of ot congress preceding the 1928 presidential election that procedure l I would undoubtedly be adopted t The he country at large as this ob observer ob- ob S s server had occasion to note during a I survey that extended from the Atlantic antic seaboard to the Rocky mountains takes relatively little Int in- in t test est fest in elections to the house of ot 5 representatives It is on senate senateS f S that attention is almost i elusively riveted Even Eten In that Interest Is lukewarm al although al- al R though that is not uncommon in int t off j years ears The Republicans now nov hold the house by a majority of off f nine fifty nine ty-nine over Democrats and five independents but the majority Includes Wisconsin's eleven Deducting them and the In int InI Independents In- In I t dependents the G. G O O. P P. marginer margin er the Democrats Is only forty- forty Ight Thus Democrats need ned to only twenty-five twenty n seats to make their total in the house to a Republican total o This calculation of course I r ii i ir based on the theory that theD the D Democrats Democrats' themselves suffer no I losses es in Tuesdays Tuesday's balloting ballotIn Democratic managers are figuring on on- winning from four forty to fifty tiny muse House seats S which would be a aland land land- S side de victory ry and entirely wipe ipe out publican Republican control This writer Believes the Democratic claims to tobe b lie be overoptimIstic His estimate is shat twenty to twenty five tents the maximum likely DemoCratic Demo- Demo Cratic house gains with the prospects pros pros- 1 e ts favoring the lower rather man an n the higher figure Republican house losses are con- con ded in New York Pennsylvania Missouri New Jersey 4 t Ohio West Vest Virginia and In ten or twelve l idle West Vest and Western e Hates ates tes In the North and East Cast m Democrats w will ill r regain gain seats that are areu u rurally U theirs and which were lost i Only lY because of ot the Coolidge landslide land land- slide In In 1924 In the West Demo- Demo ats will make some captures because beuse be- be cause use ause of ot Republican discontent with witt administration farm policies West West- n i Republican losses in congress ri n the farm Issue will wUl be ely few because G. G GOP O. O P. P senators d 1 representatives virtually wIthout without without with wIth- out exception are themselves op- op JS sed ed to the Jardine Coolidge-Jardine agri- agri cultural relief relict program WETNESS HELPS CANDIDATES Prohibition is the Issue which will reck Wadsworth In New Sew York Butler in Massachusetts Willis In Io 10 o and Smith in Illinois if they under Bunder Wadsworth Is fighting th h his back to the wall waIl not only a against the Democratic wet candidate candi candi- I date Robert Wagner but against a Republican IC dry independent Crist- Crist titan ii n. n Cristman is cutting seriously tj o Wadsworth's vital strength up- up te te If It the regular G. G GOP O. O P P. P candidate candi candi- candidate date does not reach New Sew York City with at least upstate major- major f i. i Wagner Vagner is certain to overwhelm Gun n on Manhattan island Republican cap can leaders are more than uncertain that Senator J Wadsworth can achieve such a result David I I. I Walsh's s wetness Is the issue that thre threatens tens disaster to to Sen- Sen Senator Sen- Sen ator atol William Al M. M Butler Buller Bu ler in fn- Massachusetts Massa Massa- MassaI I If U the strong g D Democratic does not not win over his I dry Republican opponent it will only be President Coolidge's Coolidge s elev elev- hour tour Intervention that saved the Republican national chairman from Crom defeat I In Ohio Atlee Pomerene a Democratic Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- white hope for 1928 will win wm if It he wins at all ov over er Senator Willis Witus Wit Wil Villis lis us Republican bone dry diy because Pom Pomerene rene carries wet net colors In Illinois the regular Republican senatorial nominee frank L L Smith a dry faces possible defeat not be because because because be- be cause he Is opposed by bv a Democratic wet George E E. Brennan but because an Independent Republican dry Hugh S S. Magill 1 may slash to the states state's normally h heavy Republican can majority Illinois and New York depict the bipartisan character of the wet Is Issue Is- Is sue Wadsworth Republican is the anti prohibition candidate In N New NewYork NewYork w York and Brennan Democrat the antl anti nominee in Illinois I Prohibition also will decide the issue Issue Issue Is- Is sue in Maryland where Millard E E Ii Tydings Democratic wet Is in the lead over Senator O O. E E. Weller Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican who is moist but not to the sopping sopping- extent boasted by his Democratic rival Presidential poll poll- tlc tics figures in Maryland T Ty Tydings dings Is abetted by Governor Ritchie hie Democratic national Irant Ir- Ir ant In 1928 1923 Ritchie recognizes that his stature as Maryland's Maryland s favorite son will be Immensely enhanced If he can elect a Democratic senator this j year r ar r. r Governor Smith has a corre correspond correspond- pond pond- personal Interest In seeing that Robert Wagner Vaner Is elected senator senator senator sena sena- tor from New V e York KLAN ISSUE FIGURES I In other states where Democratic prospects are bright In bright in Oklahoma 1 I Arizona Colorado and Oregon mailly marily Republican e u lIcan local fa factional quarrels arc are playing effectively into Democratic hands In Missouri l as asIn asIn asin In Massachusetts Maryland Ohio and New York the wet issue Is helping Democratic candidates In Iowa Brookhart insurgent Republican can will win as al will Bl lne Insurgent Insurgent gent Republican in Wisconsin Re He Republican Re Republican publican will triumph in Kansas a Curtis in to California in Utah Uta 1 Smoot in Washington Jones and in New Hampshire and Connecticut where respectively Moses and Bingham ar are up for reelection Vare Republican Republican lican boss of Philadelphia will wUl be elected in Pennsylvania Senator James E E. Watsons Watson's fate faten n Indiana depends upon the Ue tJ e extent to which Hoosier voters find rind him guilty of ot an unholy alliance with the Ku Klux Klu I Klan lan In light of recent re recent recent re- re cent revelations Robinson Vatson's Republican colleague is In greater greater- danger anger on the klan Iss issue e than the senior Indiana senator In Colorado the klan also figures conspicuously with complete uncertainty uncertainty taint on the eve of or election as to whether Its strength will be cast in favor of ot Waterman Republican senatorial nominee or Sweet Dem- Dem candidate Klan votes otes largely large large- ly will decide matters in Oklahoma as between Harreld and Thomas |
