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Three days after election Democratic House Leader John Nance Garner of Texas received that telegram. His red cowboy face twisted up into an even redder knot of merriment. "N. L." was, of course, his great & good friend Nicholas Longworth. Republican Speaker of the House. The "car" was the dark blue Packard limousine (1928 model) assigned by the Government to the House's presiding officer. Because the car would pass to him if the Democrats should control the House and elect him Speaker, Congressman Garner had often joshed Speaker Longworth about "our car." To Speaker Longworth he telegraphed this reply...
...would ride officially in the Speaker's limousine after March 4, 1931 neither Republican Longworth nor Democrat Garner nor anyone else knew for sure because the elections which made the 7 2nd Congress had failed to produce an incontestable House ma jority (218 seats) for either party. As the first hasty ballot-count came to an end throughout the land, it appeared that the voters had achieved that rarest of results, a numerically exact tie in the House. The balance was hardly less close in the Senate where the Vice President's vote might be invoked to break a deadlock...
...next-to-worst thing for the Administration still impended?the thing Speaker Longworth had feared and predicted: an upbuilding of Democratic strength to the point?204 seats?where the 15 insurgent Republicans of the House would possess a balance-of-power like that of their insurgent brethren in the Senate...
...impartial newsman, not by an unboastful Democrat, not by a man from Mars was this analysis and forecast of the November elections made last week. The speaker was none other than the arch-Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Congressman Nicholas Longworth of the First (Cincinnati) Ohio District. A political realist with an uncommon sense of election drifts, he made the above remarks in an interview to newshawks in Washington. His statement made other G. O. P. leaders wriggle and squirm with acute pain. But a few hours later Speaker Longworth atoned for his frankness, proved himself still...
...Longworth preserved her customary poise, made no public reply...