MISSISSIPPI SENATOR PREDICTS DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY FOR NEXT CONGRESS
Wilmington, North Carolina (JFK+50) On May 31, 1922, Senator Pat Harrison* (D-Mississippi), speaking at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Wilmington, "predicted that the next Congress will have a democratic majority and that President (Warren G.) Harding will be succeeded by a democrat..."
The popular Southern legislator, known as "the Gadfly of the Senate," asserted that the Republican Party "is without a leader...(and) has failed to keep its promises made in the last presidential election."
To sum it all up, in Senator Harrison's view...
"The republicans have fallen down badly."
JFK+50 NOTE
Senator Harrison's predictions proved to be incorrect although Republicans lost seats in both houses of Congress in the mid-term elections of 1922, they retained majorities in both houses & President Harding would be succeeded by Republican Calvin Coolidge.
*Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison (1881-1941) was born in Crystal Springs, Mississippi & attended Ole Miss & L.S.U. where he studied under a baseball scholarship. Before passing the bar, he was a teacher & principal. BPH served in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1911-1919, & U.S. Senate 1919-1941.
SOURCE
"Harrison Predicts Republican Rout," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., May 31, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
