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Show P RUSSIAN ARRESTED AS BOMB SUSPECT 1 G.o.p.m 1 OVER OUTLDGK ; FOR SENATORS . Republicans Have Little Fear About Presidency or Lower House. Writer Says V y HARD BATTLE IS TO J ELECT UPPER BRANCH f Harding Would Do Much to f Be Certain of Smoot's j Return, Claim By MARK SULLIVAN iU NEW yORK. Sepl IS The Tie publicans have a good deal of con cern about the senate, if the word ' concern- can be tped at all in con-nection con-nection wilb the atmosphere of both ,1 Marion and nation.;! iKuuquai ters in New York since the Maine election this week. The pnrt managers have I little fear about the president About the lower house their chief tear is that they may get too large a majority. Their present lower house majority ma-jority is forty. Tha.t Is a comfortable working majority. The Republicans fear, and fear with good reason, that if the lower house majority were J much larger they might run into splits, defection, insurgency, and every other variety of menace vo i party solidarity and part; discipline. They don't want to increase their lower house majority materially. Their management ct the campaign for member of congreKS Is intelligent intelli-gent to the highest degree and tho-roughly tho-roughly organized. They are discussing discuss-ing on making sure to keep their pres ent majority on giving concentrated support to eeitain Important mem here of congress, on winning back a few normally Republican districts which are now held by nrmicrats and on making a rhcnclng in about ten Isolated southern district! G O P. UNCOMFORTABLE But about the senate the Repub licans are net comtortable. Their present majority la two out of the ninety-six indeed, it tfl barely two. The Democrats have Forty-seven senators, the Republican-! forty-eight, and one senator. Hiram Johnson ot California. If Uattid. as "Republican" and "Progressive." But even when you say that the present Republican majority in the senate is two ,that statement is subject sub-ject to some Qualification. One of the two is Newberry of Michigan. Mr. a- Newberry is under sentence to pen itentiary lor corruption iu his election elec-tion So long as that continues to be the case, his vole is not available. Another of the senator who is count but LaFollettee, as everybody knows, is Just as likely to vote agalnsi the ed on as a Republican is LaFolletto. Republicans as with them With Newberry eliminated and LaFollcite voting with the Democrats the Republican Re-publican are really In a minority l one; and ilu-re are other Republican senators, but little more dependable in their Republicanism than LaFol-lelte LaFol-lelte is. WANT LARGE MAJORITY This is the condition that the Republicans Re-publicans want to mend, and to mend surely. They want just as large a majority in the senate as they can get, If Lhey are to win at all ihis fall, they want to control all thicc branches of the government, so that they can make the changes they plan with smooth runniag machinery JJ. r ding himself is especially concerned about the senate. He is of the senate sen-ate himself and he knows its atraos-. atraos-. phere. He knows well how tin Re public-an senate has bedevilled Wil-son Wil-son To be sure, they hae done it because be-cause they felt Wilson was the aggressor, ag-gressor, but they have done it ".ll i be same. Harding knows well that if he were elected president, and If the DemocraLs had control of the senate, the Democratic senate would bedevil him Just as much as the Republican Re-publican senators have bedevilled Wil son! LEAVING FRONT PORCH That is what re all Lies behind all tli- talk of Harding going off the front porch. All cu h inps as he takes will be less for the purpose of adding votes to his own majority than for tho purpose of helping Republican Re-publican senatorial candidates in Btatff where the Republicans are especially eager to elect senator! 1! AXlOUS to get a comfortable working work-ing majority in the senate, and, in addition to thai, he is particularly eager for the return of certain es-peclally es-peclally Important senators. ioows xnoav sooixnv Haruiug would probably count a trip to the Rocky Mountains as a (Continued cm Page Two ) G. 0. P. Worry Over j Outlook for Senators m ontlnued Prom Page One.) small price to pa if It would guarantee guar-antee he return of Senator Smoot of Utah. Incidentally, this fccllnfc I that it la desirable for Smoot to be j returned is not confined to Harding nor to Re.v lbl Ican Many persons whoso iewpoint in non partisun know Ibat Smoot has a greater fa miliarity with tho conduct of the go ernment's business than any other senator, and that If he should not be In the senate for the Inevitable reorganization of the government business during the next few years It would be a loss to the country If Harding takes a western trip it may be assumed that the return of Smoot Is one of his chief concerns, and it may equally be assumed that all the trips Harding takes Will be de slpned to help insuie a safe Ropub lican majority in the senate CONCERN vVELL GROUNDED The Republican concern over the senate is well grounded. There are many cases In which the Republicans are serenely conlident of Hauling carrying the state, but freely admit ihai the It publican candidate for senator in the same slate will tall measurably beiow Harding's vote In fact, thero are some Republican senators sen-ators running for reelection whose success Is doubtiul The Republi cans have not merely the task of winning several seats from the Demo crats, but of saving somo of the seats they now have. One case is Indiana. Whether or not Indiana Is a doubltul state as between Hardiug and Cox, it is more certainly doubt ful as between the two candidates for the senate. Watson and Taggart. There is hardh a Republican leader but Will admit that Watsons vote will probably fall more than 10,000 below Harding's vote. WISCONSIN AGAIN Another similar case is Wisconsin. Lenroot won a hard fought contest 1 In the Republi' an primaries and has passed that hazard. That contt.-i li too recent for the forces of Wlscon :-in politics to have realigned them selves with sufficient daflniteness .n enable an one to make an accurate forecast now, but it has been lully conceded that in the event of Lcn root winnlug, many of those who opposed him in the primaries so savagely would carry their bitterness into the geneial election in Govern bci Moreover, the Democrats in Wisconsin have Dominated a ery tood man in the person of Paul S Reinsch, a piolessor of economics in the University of Wisconsin and more lately ambassador to China New York is another state in which it is conceded thai the Republican candidate for senator, Mr. Wads worth, is likely to get fewer votes than Harding Anothei such state Is Connecticut, and there are many others in the west. CASE OF MISSOURI Two Republicans now have one of the two senators from Missouri, and he is a candidate for re election. His Democratic opponent is not the strongest possible candidate, but for tho Republicans a senator lrom Mis BOUrl Is always In peril. Ohio Is, of course, at once the most doubtful of the doubtful statea and the most important In Ohio a -enator is to be elcted to fill Harding's Har-ding's seat. Tho Republican nom-Inee nom-Inee SI Congressman and ex-Governor Willis, is from any nonpartisan point of. view a less desirable candidate can-didate than the Democratic nominee. Mr Julian, v, ho Is a successful Cincinnati Cin-cinnati businessman with an intelll gent and forceful interest in pro gressive measuiej. Uhlo Republicans who concede that Julian Is the better man. grin and add "but Willis is better known." So much for the Republicans Having Hav-ing the seats they now have When it comes to winning additional seats from the Democrat.-, they are obliged to make their fights in Mates where, as it happens, local conditions are less favorable to the Republican can- i dldates for senator than they are to the Republican candidate for presi 1 dent. IDAHO DOUBTFUL Idaho, for example, has one Republican Repub-lican senator Borah., and one Demo cratlc Senator. Nuni Nugent is now up for re election The Republicans Repub-licans are cjulte conlident about Har ding carrying Idaho, but when it , . omes to to the Republican candidate candi-date for senator beating Nugent, it Is conceded that this is a dllferent j matter. There Is a local condition in Idaho which favors Nugent at the expense of his Republican op ponent, ex-Governor Gooding. Idaho had a direct primary law A Republican Republi-can legislature repealed this Jaw and ! repealed It under circumstances that caused resentment throughout tho state. This resentment, it is expected, expect-ed, will express itself, not in the voto between Nugent and Gooding. PHELAN STRONGER Another state where the Republi cans have hoped to get a senatorial seat lrom the Democrats is California. Califor-nia. Most well informed Judges be lteve that Harding will carry California Califor-nia this year, but carrying California lor Harding is one thing and carry ing it for the new Republican senatorial nominee, Samuel Short ridge, as against the sitting Democratic sen ator, Phelan, Is another matter Phe lan Is popular in California and I hs an Impressive personal organiza tlon. There can be no doubt what evei that Phelan will get many thousands thou-sands of votes more than Cox gets, and may well te able to hold his eat The Republicans also hope to win the Colorado seat recently abdi-cated abdi-cated bj the Democratic senator, Thomas They hope, also, to win the South Dakota seat, now held by that curious Democrat, whose autoelo-graphy autoelo-graphy in the congressional directory consists ol two lines reading: "Edwin Johnson of ' Yankton, S. D.J Democrat, born in Owen county,, lr.il . a long time ago, was always proud of his ancestors aud family. " i I o win this yc-at the Republicans t.e relying upon the present Re- 1 publican governor of the state, Peter Norbeck Norbeck is a strong candi date, but. here again theie are local conditions which make it reasonably-probable reasonably-probable that the Republican senatorial senator-ial candidate will run behind Harding Har-ding All in all, even conceding the un mlstakable ioicg of the Maine elec ' tlon, it is still a fact that the Re- , publicans have no easy tak ahead of them in winning a comfortable ma- ; Joiity in the senate. And It can be expected that the principle actnitiesl of the Republican National organize tion from now until lection will bo devoted to these states in which there are senatorial contests Copyright, 1920, by the New ork Evening Post ) oo |