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TITE STJXDAY OREGOXIAS, TOKTLAXD. NOVE:rBER 3. 1913. G O. P. CAPTURE OF HOUSE IS PREDICTED Democrats May' Retain Their Control of Senate. REPUBLICANS ARE STIRRED Xcw York Herald's Can.Tas ol Coun try Discloses Strong Resent l ment of 'Wilson's Appeal. (Copyright, 1918. by the New Torlc Herald Company, rights reserved.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (Special.) The New York Herald's political can vass of the country Indicates that in the elections to be held next Tuesday the Democrats will retain control of the Senate by a majority of four, and that the Republicans will gain control of the House of Representatives by a majority of 23. The Democrats at present have a majority of etsht in the Senate, and they control the House by a plurality of seven. The next Congress, as foreshadowed by the New York Herald's reports from every state and Congressional district, will stand as follows: Senate Democrats, SO; Rpublio ans. 46. House Democrats, 20; Republicans. 2119. The present Congress is made up as follows: Senate Democrats, 52; Republicans, 44: Independents, 0. HoustvDemocrats, 214; Republicans, 207; Independents. 7. Seven Vacancies Exist. There are seven vacancies, due to death or resignation. In the present House. The total membership of the Senate is n and of the House 435. In the eleventh-hour telegrams that have reached the New York Herald from all over the Nation It la made clear that the appeal of President Wil son for the election of a Democratic Senate and House, merely upon the prround that it will help him In carrying out his war and peace programmes, with the supsestlon that a Republican Congress would interfere with a proper settlement with Germany and recon struction after the war, is everywhere the chief topic of discussion. The principal effect of the President's appeaL has been to make the Repub licans "fighting mad" and in every sec tion they are going to make the best showing they can. Politics Seems Reconvened. Before the appeal of Mr. Wilson was issued there was Republican apathy in many Congressional districts. It is now apparent that Republicans feel that their loyalty has been unjustly im pugned, and that politics "without gloves" has" been "reconvened," not by them but by Mr. Wilson. On the other hand the Democrats think in mn.ny instances that the appeal of the President will help their candi dates. The New York Herald's reports are from correspondents whose habit Is to be impartial in their judgment of polit ical situations and in nearly every state they Indicate that the President's ap peal has aided the Republicans more than it has helped the Democrats. There is no assertion of infallibility connected with the figures prepared as a result of the New York Herald's can vass. The information has been col lected just as it has been during many Congressional, Presidential and state campaigns in past years, with the sole purpose of presenting the situation ex actly as it exists. Until the figures sent in by each correspondent, inde pendently, were totaled, nobody con nected with the New York Herald had the slightest Idea what the result of the canvass would US. Grent Contest Precipitated. Here is a typical dispatch. It is from the correspondent at Harris burg. Pa.: "President Wilson's appeal for the election of Democratic Congressmen has precipitated the greatest Congres sional contest known In Pensylvanla since the Civil War. Not even the campaigns of 1S9S and 1900 can show anything like the struggle which is be ing waged all over the state." This is what the correspondent at Topeka, Kan., says: "The appeal of the President to send only Democrats to Congress has made certain the election of eight Repub licans and a Republican United States Senator. The direct charge of disloy alty against Republicans has solid! lied Republican votes and made the women voters mad. If this correspondent's information is correct the result will be a gain of five Republican members of the House and one Republican Senator in Kansas. On the other hand, there are lndica lions of possible Democratic gains In several states, as, for instance, two Representatives in Indiana and two in Wisconsin: also one Senator in West Virginia and another in Rhode Island. It appears, however, that the Demo cratic gains will not be great enough ' o prevent capture or the House by th nepuDiicans. aitnougn tney will ap parently enable the Democratic party to retain control or the Senate by a nar row margin. BOTH PARTIES CLAIM VICTORY Fess and Cumniings Issue Pre' Election Statements. WASHINGTON. Nov. 2 Victory In Tuesday's Congressional elections was claimed tonight In statements issued by Democratic and Republican cam paign leaders. ' . Homer S. Cummings, acting chairman of the Democratic National Commit tee, predicted that the Democratic majority in the Senate would be in- creased by the. vote to ba taken in 40 Senatorial contests and that the Demo crats would make gains in the House of from 30 to SO members. Republicans will control the next House of Representatives by a major ity of 2S members. Representative Fess, of Ohio, chairman of the Na tional Republican Congressional Com. mittee, declared. While, no formal statement was la. sued by the Republican as to Sena torial contests, leaders of the party predicted that the next Senate would be Republican. In his analysis of the political situation. Chairman Fess said 230 Congressional districts are "safely Republican, 172 are "safely" Demo cratic and-33 are doubtful. The most noticeable gains claimed by the Re publican chairman are in Ohio, his own state, the present delegation- from which includes 12 Democrats and nine Republicans, with ou seat vacant. Fourteen seats will go Republican, five to the Democrats and three are doubtful, Fess said. Twelve states with 16 seats are claimed as solid Republican by Chair man Fess as follows: Delaware. Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Ne vada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Vermont, Wash ington and Wyoming. Seven states, all n the bouth. with an aggregate or members of Congress, are conceded by Representative Fess to the Democrats. 'Our advices from every state point to a sweeping Democratic victory," said the statement issued by Chair man Cummings. "The Democratic ma jority in the next Senate will be in creased and we shall control the House by a substantial majority. Reliable estimates of net gains by the Demo crats range from 30 to 60. The tide is running strongly in our favor, espe cially in the Middle West and far Western states." CAMPAIGN ON COAST SILENT Influenza Factor in Politics This Year In Western States. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2. The most silent political campaign ever waged n the Far w est closed tonight. An epidemic of Spanish influenza prevailed n most of the 11 states where candi dates will be chosen Tuesday for state and National offices, and effectively curtailed the usual speaking programme. In Arizona. Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico and California, 33 Representatives and nine Senators are to be elected. Governors also are to be chosen in all these states except Washington, Utah and Montana. Unusual interest centers in the Sena torial campaigns in Montana and Ne vada, where Representative Jeanette Rankin and Miss Anne Martin, respec tively, are contenders for seats in the upper house of Congress. California elects no United States Senators this year, but will choose a complete Congressional delegation of 11 members, a Governor and an entire state ticket. A proposed constitutional amendment for "bone-dry" prohibition and an in- tiatlve prohibiting saloons and regu lating the liquor traffic also are to be voted on. HE DARKENED HIS GRAY HAIR They Veed to Call Rim Grandpa Now They Call Him Kid. Tells How He Did It. KAISER STAYS, HIS CUE FOR EXIT GIVEN Abdication of Throne Thought to Be Assured. CONSPIRACY IS SCENTED CEREAL EXPORTS STOPPED i - i FOOD ADMINISTRATOR HOOVER EXPLAINS PERMIT SYSTEM. Necessity Arises Ont of Desire to Keep Coarse Grains Moving as Against Flood of Wheat. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. Demands for ships to carry soldiers overseas under the enlarged military programme prac tically has stopped cereal exports. Food Administrator Hoover Informed Sena- top Hitchcock, of Nebraska, today in a letter explaining the Administrations permit system for corn shipments. Mr. Hoover said the system was necessary to prevent congestion In ter minals and was not the cause of de clin in g prices. "The necessity for the permit system arises solely out of the desire to keep the coarse gralnB moving as against a positive flood of wheat," he added. "The programme of exports agreed upon In Europe last Summer calls for the total export of cereals from the United States of approximately CO, 000. 000 bushels a month for th. first eight months after September 1. . Since that time, the changes in miltary pro gramme have led General Pershing to demand a much larger tonnage for the American Army than was anticipated and as a result shipping has been taken out oi tne cereal trades until we are practically exporting nothing. "It is hard for a man in Nebraska to realize that motor-trucks for Pershing win react on nis situation. ACTRESS LIKES WAR GAME Valentine Grant Takes Instruction at Washington Camp. TACOMA, Wash.. Nov. 2 (Special.) Valentine Grant, widely known moving picture actress, has been learning the war game for several days at Camp Lewis, under the direction of Amerl can officers and Lieutenant J. McWat ters. of the Canadian forces. She learned to don a gas mask, started a gas attack and learned to use the bayonet. From Lieutenant McWatters she learned all the technique of the assault with this weapon, as he 1 teaching bayonet practice at the can tonment. Garbed In overalls and Jumper, Miss Grant jabbed and stabbed the 'dummy oermans. fcne may use some of he education attained at the camp in fu ture pictures. Miss Grant has done much work for homeless French and Belgian children during the last three years. Presence of Emperor at Grand Headquarters Suggests Cabal of Military Party. PAUIS, Nov. 2. Reports and predic tions that the Kaiser has abdicated or a about to give up the throne continue with a persistence suggesting the Im minence of the fall of the Hohen- sollerns. Advices from Berlin continue to em phasise the fact that sentiment is de. veloping for the removal of the ruler who has led Germany into the 8b.amble,B of an unsuccessful war In heavy type the Temps today prints the following under a Geneva date: The abdication of William II may be considered now as an accomplished fact- Official publication is delayed for an opportune moment." The obstinacy with which William Hohensollern is clinging to the throne is making a bad impression in Berlin political circles, savs a Zurich dis patch to Le Journal. It Is reported that- In an attempt to aave the crown he took the head of a cabal gotten up by the military party against the gov ernment, but that the latter was too solidly established. net Held Futile. Any plot which aims at the estab lishment of a military dictatorship has no chance of success, the message de clares. It appears that the Kmperor now is refusing to take any notice of the acts of the government. everything is represented as denend- Ing upon the attitude the German gen eral staff may adopt. ine (socialist Vorwaerts Importunes the Emperor to prove his courage by abdicating, as an immense majority of the people are against him. The Frankfort Gazette and the Mun ich Neueste Nuchrichten express them selves similarly. Immediate peace Is demanded In manifestos published by German So cialist newspapers from labor and So cialist organizations and feminist groups throughout the Empire. The last named groups In their state ment declare the German women will take every means of opposing the con tinuation of the war. BASEL, Switzerland. Nov. 2. Re garding the reports that Philip Schelde mann. Socialist leader and secretary without portfolio in the German cabi net, has addressed a memorial to Chan cellor Maximilian on the abdication of Emperor William, a semi-official state ment from Berlin declares no such me morial exists. tlueetloa Possibly Raised. "It is not impossible, however," the statement adds, "that this question was touched upon in correspondence ex changed between Secretary of State Scheidemann and other secretaries and government chiefs during the illness of the Chancellor, which restricted per sonal communication between the mem bers of the government. v COPENHAGEN. Oct. SO. Complete submission to the allies was advised by Count lleventiow, tne naval writer. the Berlin Deutsche Tages Zeitung of Tuesday. The article was very mild for the usual bellicose Reventlow. LONDON, Nov. 2. The bavarian Pre mier has notified Berlin that the Ba varian royal family claims the Imperial throne In the event of the Emperor William's" abdication, according to the Socialist Leipzig Volks Zeitung, which is quoted in a Hague dispatch to th Daily Mail. I The reigning King of Bavaria Is Lud wlg III. He was born January 27. 1S44, and became regent in succession to his father, Prince Luitpold, who died De cember 12, 1912. Kins; Otto Insane He was proclaimed King en Novem ber 6, 1903. in succession to his cousin, King Otto, who was declared incapable of ruling because of his mental incapacity. King Ludwlg was married February 20, 111.8, to Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Kste of the branch of Mo den a. Their heir apparent Is Crown Prince Rupprecht, who was in command of forces on the western front during much of the war. Since August 10, he has not been with bis troops. It was re ported that follom ing a quarrel at main headquarters he left the army, but the official report of the Incident stated that he had "gone on a vacation." ANARCHY GRIPS TURKEY HORDES OF ARMY DESERTERS PREY ON PEOPLE. Constantinople. Famished, Eagerly Awaits Arrival of Allied Forces. AMSTERDAM. Nov. I. A state of anarchy prevails throughout Turkey, according to information received by the Armenian correspondence bureau here. Hundreds of thousands of de? serters are subsisting by means of rob bery of the mass of the population. Constantinople Is declared to be literally famished and Impatiently awaiting the arrival of allied forces. LONDON. Nov. 2- An additional clause In the terms of armistice granted by the allies to Turkey, which has just been received, says: "Allied control officers are to bs placed on all railways. Including surh portions of the tranatCaucasian rail ways as are now under Turkish con trol; these must be placed at the free and complete disposal of the allied au thorities; due consideration being given to the needs of population. This clause Is to Include the allied occupation of Batum. Turkey will raise no objection to the occupation of Baku by the allies.'' MILL EMPLOYE MAY DIE Left Arm Crushed In Saw Gear and Amputation Necessary. NORTH BEND. Or.. Nov. I. (Spe cial.) Lafe Jennings, an employe of the North Bend Mill & Lumber Com pany, of this city, sustained the loss of his left arm and other serious Injuries early today by falling Into the gear of the saw carriage at the company s plant. The accident ia reported to have re sulted from the young man stumbling over an obstruction while passing from the filing-room to the mill. In falling his hand was thrust between the fast- revolving gears of the saw carriage, and before the machinery could be stopped his arm was mangled and crushed above the elbow. Amputation of tha arm at the shoul der was necessary and fears are enter tained that, ho will not survive the shock. B0LSHEVIKI DETECT PLOT Sailors f River Volga Flotilla Turn on Soviet Government. STOCKHOLM. Nov. 2. A plot against the Soviet government has been dis covered among the sailors of th flotilla on the River Volga, according to re ports from Petrograd. Russian Minister Trotsky, in an or der of the day to the army, denounces the cowardice and flight of several fighting units. He threatens martial any unit showing the least sign of panje In the future. VLADIVOSTOK. Nov. l. I soclated Press.) Th American xpdl- . , 1. 1 v. r t & tndav opened an of.f leers' trslr.lng seheel her under command or major om" son tf General WlllUm 8. Graves, com mander of th forces in oiuen.. Alleged Thief la Hospital. rf T-lhrt N. Donaldson, charged mitt, the theft of money and Jewelry from patients In th Influenza emer gency hospital in oeame, . ... the City Jail last night. Internes In emergency hospital first thought that Donaldson had Influenza, but have de rided that h la suffering iroro a pan cold. Oregon City Boii to War. OREGON CITT. Or.. Nov. 2. (Spe cial.) Albert Wolfhagen and Harold Wilson, of Damascus, left this evening for Camp Colt, Gettysburg. Pa., and are to enter th tank service of th United States Army. Herbert Long, of this county, left this evening for Vancouver, where he goes Into service. Mexican Ports Delng Improved. MEXICO CTTY. Th work of dredr- r ill! Winter Footwear For Men and Women Here are complete stocks of Amer ica s best footwear. Choose here and be assured of nual- -U ity. We fit all feet. Good footwear promotes and rt protects good health enhances . personal appearance and effi ciency. If you n e e d new shoes, call and see these smart sytles. Ask for S. & H. Trading Stamps Mr. J. A. McCrea, a well-known resi dent of San Francisco, who was called Daddy and Grandpa on account of his white hair, and who darkened it with a eimple home-made mixture, recently made the following statement: "Anyone can prepare a simple mix ture at home, at very little cost, that will darken gray hair, "and make it soft and glossy. To a half pint of water add 1 ounce of bay rum, a small box of Barbo Compound and 4 ounce of glycerine. Those ingredients can be bought at any drug store at very little cost. Apply to the hair twice a week until the desired shade Is obtained. This is not a dye. it does not color the most delicate scalp, is not sticky or greasy and does not rub off. My friends nw call m 'Kid." " Adv. SOLDIERS TO PLAY 'SANTA Yankee Fighting Men Plan Christ mas Cheer In France. NEW TORK. Nov. 2. American sol diers In France, will become "&anta Clauses? to friendless and lonely French I'ollus who are spending their fifth Christmas in the trenches if a plan announced here today by Miss Byrd W. Hamblen, secretary of L' Paquet du Soldat, an organization devoted to the welfare of the French fighters. Is car ried out. j Relatives of American soldiers are Invited to send a dollar bill, a card of greeting and the name of the Ameri can soldier in whose behalf the present Is to be given, to Miss Hamblen, in car of J. P. Morgan & Co., New York, who in turn will cable the money to Paris and a holiday package will be shipped, to the Pollu, who. In each case. Is ex pected to acknowledge its receipt. SURESH0T. The sure way to defeat Gantenbein is to vote for Langley, No. 44. Adv. 129 10th St-, Bet. 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