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Republican Landslide
Holt County Lands in Republican
Column, Giving Harding Ma
jority of 1,500.
The election last Tuesday resulted
in the greatest surprise to the people
of the country that they ever received
at a general election.
Not at the result of the balloting, as
that was forecast months ago, but at
the tremendous majority given the re
publican candidate for the presidency.
Even the solid south refused to en
dorse the policies of Woodrow Wilson
and the democratic party and Okla
homa, Tennessee and New Mexico
joined the republican ranks. Harding
^ carried the following states and will
^have an electoral vote of 404 to 127
for Cox. The states carried by Hard
ing are:
Arizona, 3; California, 13; Colorado,
6; Connecticut, 7; Delaware, 3; Idaho,
4; Illinois, 29^-Indiana, 15; Iowa, 13;
Kansas, 10; Maine, 6; Maryland, 8;
Missouri, 18; Montana, 4; Nevada, 3;
Massachusetts, 18; Michigan, 15; Min
nesota, 12; Nebraska, 8; New Hamp
shire, 4; New Jersey, 14; New York,
45; North Dakota, 5; Ohio, 24; Okla
homa, 10; Oregon, 5; Pennsylvania,
38; Rhode Island, 5;_South Dakota, 5;
Tennessee, 12; Utah, 4; Vermont, 4;
Washington, 7; West Virginia, 8; Wis
consin, 13, and Wyoming, 3; a total of
401.
Cox has carried Alabama, 12; Ar
kansas, 9; Florida, 6; Georgia, 14;
Kentucky, 13; Louisiana, 10; Missis-1
sippi, 10; North Carolina, 12; South
Carolina, 9; Texas, 20, and Virginia,
12; a total cf 127.
The result in Holt county exceeded
the expectations of the most enthusi
astic republican. From the returns it
appears that Harding has carried the
county by 1,500. In this county
hundreds fcf democrats voted for the
republican presidential candidate and
then voted the balance of the demo
cratic ticket.
Congressman Kinkaid carried the
county with a majority of nearly 2,000
and will have a majority of nearly 20^
000 in the district.
Governor McKelvie and Senator
Cronin, upon whom the opposition
centered their fight and used every
thing known to the unscrupulous
politician to encompass their defeat,
succeeded in carrying -the county by
good majorities. Governor McKelvie
will have a majority of 450 in the
county while Senator Cronin’s ma
jority will be about 850. Senator
Cronin carried every county in the
district and will have a majority of
over 2,000 in the district. He receiv
ed a majority of 631 in Boyd county;
76 in Wheeler and large majorities in
Keya Paha and Garfield counties.
William W. Bethea was re-elected
state representative from the Fifty
third district, comprising Holt county,
defeating John Nelson by about 800
votes.
For Representative of the Fifty
fourth district, comprising Holt and
Boyd counties, Brantley E. Sturde
vant of Atkinson, was re-elected by a
large majority, over Crist Anderson,
democrat, of Bristow. Mr. Sturde
vant carried Boyd county by a ma
jority of 313 and will have about 750
majority in this county.
The scrap for clerk of the district
court was one of the hardest fought in
the county. T. J. Coyne, democrat,
the present incumbent, made a hard
fight for re-election but the tidal wave
was too much for him and he lost out
to I. H. Moss by about 225 votes.
J. M. Hunter is elected county as
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| sessor with n majority that will run
over 1,000.
IrTthe Second supervisor district, L.
C. McKim, republican, ran away from
his democratic opponent, W. Ellis,
and will have a majority of about 160
in the district. Mr. McKim carried
every township in the district.
In the Fourth district L. E. Skid
more, republican, was elected with a
I majority of 57 over George A. French
of Page.
In the Sixth district, S. S. Riley,
petition candidate, was elected with a
majority of»about 30, defeating John
Welch, democrat, and Dean Cole, re
publican. In this contest the south end
of the district was arrayed against the
north end, and as both Cole and Welsh
were from the north end, the south
siders won. The new county board
will consist of five republicans, one
democrat and one independent.
NON-PARTISAN TICKET.
On the non-partisan ballot Judge
Dickson received a majority of about
1,700 in this county and carried every
county in the district by large ma
jorities. His majority in the district
will be around 4,500.
For chief justice of the supreme
court Andrew Morrisey received a
large majority in this county, while
the race for associate justice of the
supreme court is rather close in the
county between Day and Dorsey.
RESULT IN THE STATE.
Omaha, Nov. 4.—The practically
complete sweep of all state officers
in Nebraska was recorded by the re
publican candidates in Tuesday’s
election according to latest figures
available here. The indicated plural
ities ranged from 140,000 scored for
the presidential ticket down to the
probable 25,000 advantage of which
Governor McKelvie held over John
Morehead, his democratic opponent.
So complete was the triumph of
the republicans that there was a pos
sibility that the state senate might be
unanimous for that party. In the
lower house of the legislaure only
one democrat seemed assurred of
election, but the returns were lacking
from more than thirty districts.
Despite the widespread interest in
the campangn the voting was not as
heavy as had been expected. A com
parison of the various counties which
reported complete returns on presi
dent with the vote in those counties
for Wilson and Hughes in 1916
showed an average of about 28 per
cent. Political experts were rather
divided as to the significance of these
figures, some arguing that the ex
pected doubling of the vote because
of women suffrage was not to be re
alized while others maintained that
the adverse transportation conditions
in rural sections was a determining
factor in keeping the total down.
A recapitulation of legislative races
showed at least nine candidates sup
ported by the* Non-partisan league or
openly endorsed by that organization
had won seats in the state assembly.
All of these men, however, were re
publicans and they shared in the big
party votoes recorded in their counties
with other candidates on their praty
ticket. One state senator, Otto Ulrich,
in the Seventh district, was on the list
Eight of the members of the new
house were endorsed by the league
also.
The effects of the campaign of the
Non-partisan and “the organizations
allied with it, were apparent on the
state ticket in the decreased pluralit
ies scored by the republican candi
dates for lieutenant governor and at
tdrney general.
In both these races the figures in
dicated that the league and labor
candidates who ran by petition had
drawn about 85 per cent of their
strength from the republican vote. In
the general landslide, however, the
democratic aspirants for office were
unable to reap any marked advantage
from this defection in the opposing
parties.
When all except 500 precincts had
reported on the governorship race
this morning, Samuel R. McKelvie,
republican incumbent, was leading
John H. Morehead, former governor,
and democratic opponent, by more
than 16.000 votes. «Arthur G. Wray,
independent candidate, was credited
with a total of slightly* more than
half of Gov. McKelvie's. The figures
for 1375 precincts were: /
McKelvie .120,156
Morehead .103,727
Wray . 60,884
Returns on the state ticket btfre out
previous calculations as to the size
of republican pluralities. The figures
on the various races follow: l
For lieutenant governor: 1,026 pre
cincts gave P. A. Barrows, (r) 105,
852; Cass G. Barns (d) 61,258; Robert
D. Mousel find.) 28,016.
For attorney general: 1,017 pre
cincts gave C. A. Davis (r) 116,835;
R. C. Hunter (d) 03,674; F. L. Bolleu
(tnd) 27,1&3.
For secretary of state: 1,014 pre
cincts gave D. M. Amsberry (r) 129,
383; L. A, Larson (d) 71,168.
For auditor: 997 precincts gave
George W. Marsh (r) 126,481; J. W
McKissick (d) 60,962.
For treasurer: 946 precincts gave
D. B. Cropsey (r) 118,571; J. S. Can
ady (d) 66,028.
For University regent: 763 pre
cints gave the following totals:
George N. Seymour .54,166
William L. Bates . 55,644
Victor G. Lyford .34,382
E. H. Gerhart .46,919
Johp M. Matzen had a fairly sub
stantial lead over Owen G. Stewart in
the race for state superintendent of
public instruction when 733 precincts
had reported. The figures were:
Matzen . 68,853
Stewart .47,414
For president 1,367 out of 1,877 pre
cincts gave Harding 190,365; Cox
92,580.
These totals came from eighty-nine
of the ninety-three counties in the
state and represented a missing pre
cinct list of 520. Most of the missing
precincts were of the small rural
variety.
For railway commissioner, short
tern), returns from 952 precincts gave
H. L. Cook (r) 122,638; H. A. Kent
(d) 71,550.
The race for the chief justiceship
of the supreme court cleared when
tabulations had been made from 859
precincts.
The returns gave A. M. Morrisey
78,510 and Grant Martin, 67,337.
For judge of the supreme court with
871 precincts counted George A. Day
had a plurality of 21,439 over William
Dorsey. The totals were: Day, 78,
265; Dorsey, 50',826.
For railway commissioner, long
term, reports from 957 precincts gave
T. A. Browne (r) 124,336 against 64,
786 cast for Roy M. Harrop, (d). The
ratio indicated an approximate plu
rality of 118,000 for Brown.
p. O. P. LEAD IS INCREASED
AS RETURNS COME
Republican Victories Apparently Cer
tain Throughout All of U. S. Ex
cep Solid South—Few in Doubt.
New. York, Nov. 3.—The Harding
landslide increased in size late this
afternoon when more complete re
turns Indicated that the republican
candidate had carried Tennessee, Mon
tana and Arizona.
These returns threw 19 additional
electoral votes to Harding who ap
parently will have at least 391 votes
in the electoral college.
In addition, late returns from Okla
homan indicate that the result there,
was in doubt, though Cox was holding
a slight lead. .In capturing Tennessee
the president-elect succeeded in break
ing the democratic front there for the
first time since 1868.
New York, Nov. 3.—The scope of
the republican victory that swept the
nation yesterday continued to grow as
the returns were compiled today.
These returns showed that:
Harding has been elected president
by the greatest popular vote ever
amassed in the history of American
politics and the largest electoral vote
ever rolled up by a republican candi
date.
Reports have strengthened their
grip on the Senate and will have a
working majority of from 12 to 16
seats.
They will have a top heavy major
ity of approximately 100 votes in the
House.
Republican governors were seated
in every state except those of the
solid south.
It was estimated that the total vote
cast was more than 20,000,000 and
that Harding polled nearly 6,000,000
votes more than Cox. This broke all
records for political landslides. The
records show that prior to yesterday
no state ever had given a presidential
candidate more that a 500,000 plur
ality. This was surpassed by New
York, which gave Harding a probable
lead of more than 1,000,000; by Penn
sylvania, where the republican can
didate has a margin of more than
700.000, and in Illinois where Hard
ing’s estimated plurality is about
i 800,000. Harding’s margin of vic
tory in Ohio was estimated at 400,
000. Other states rolled up unprece
dented pluralities for Harding. Cal
ifornia, whose vote four years ago,
decided the Hughes-Wilson contest in
favor of the latter, appears to have
gone for Harding by more than 100,J
000.
The most optimistic predictions of
republican national Chairman Will
H. Hays were exceeded in practi
cally every instance. The women’s
vote swelled the totals to unprece
dented proportions and made the
democratic defeat appear all the more
overwhelming.
Harding, when he assumes the
presidency March 4, 1921, will go into
office with a Senate and House of
Representatives republican by wide
margins, according to the returns to
date.
The republicans gained seats in both
the upper and lower houses.
Unofficial results presaged a large
majority in the electoral college for
Senator Harding and his running
mate, Governor Coolidge, than any
since 1888, except alone the vote of
435 for President Wilson in 1912, dur
ing the republican “split.”
The republican congressional swing
was as strong, increased majorities
in both Senate and House being
marked up. Early today victory for
virtually all 15 republican senators
for re-election was spelled by the re
turns, while about a half dozen of the
19 democratic candidates were bat
tling against republican leads.
The first trial of woman suffrage
contributed largely to the republican
majorities and also was a factor in
delaying the count in many states.
The millions of women’s ballots also
swelled the popular vote beyond all
records. ,
Senator Harding accepted his vic
tory without exultation, stating he
was given “prayer to God to make
me capable of playing my part.”
Governor Coolidge, the next vice
president, sent a message saying:
“We’ve got a real job and we’ll tackle
it together.”
uovernor oox aiso received nis de
feat without untoward show of feel
ing. He withheld comment after re
maining at his newspaper office at
Dayton until almost midnight and
seeing his own paper issue an early
extra edition reconting his defeat.
Senator Harding, Governor Cool
idge, Will H. Hays, chairman of the
republican national committe, and
other leaders exchanged telegrams of
congratulation. Senator Harding
commended Mr. Hays upon “success
ful management of a great campaign”
and also told Governor Coolidge that
he Would expect him to “play a full
part in the coming republican^ admin
istration.”
None of* the minor parties the
socialist, farmer-labor or prohibition
figured in the presidential result.
Socialist headquarters at Chicago
claimed an increased vote and the
party re-elected three New York so
cialist assemblymen who hajl been ex
pelled. The first woman socialist ever
elected to the New York assembly
Marion H. Laing, also was successful.
Eugene V. Debs, socialist presiden
tial candidate received the reflims in
Atlanta penitentiary.
«
The farmer-labor candidate, Parley
P. Chirstensen of Salt Lake City, had
not been located early today.
Senator Harding, with the receipt
of the ballot tidings—on his 55th an
niversary—announced plans for a va
cation beginning Friday. He will
spend several days near Brownsville,
Tex., and then tour the Panama Canal
zone. Governor Cox is also planning
a vacation on a hunting trip in Mis
sissippi.
New York, Ohio—the home of both
Governor Cox and Senator Harding—
Illinois and Pennsylvania furnished
the largest republican pluralities.
Prohibition was a subject not taken
into the question.
A remarkable feature of the election
in New York city was the socialist
vote.
For Eugene V. Debs, the party’s
presidential candidate now imprisoned
in the Atlanta pentitntiary for viola
tion of the espionage law were 131,856
votes, more than four times the total
socialist candidate received here ih
1916 when the vote -was 31,788. In
deed, this year Debs received more
than a third as many votes as were
chalked up to Cox’s account.
Portland, Me., Nov. 3.—Harding
carried Muine by the largest plurality
ever given a presidential candidate in
the state. Gf the first 16 cities to
complete their returns Cox Carried
only one, Biddeford.
Returns from 496 precincts out of
632 in the state gave:
Harding, 104,685; Cox, 46,883.
G. O. P. SWEEPS UTAH.
Salt Lake City, Nov. 3.—The re
publicans carried Utah from the head
of the ticket down to the office of
constable in virtually every county of
the state, according to returns com
piled early today from 27 of the 29
counties in the state. The total num
ber of precincts reporting were 320
out of 650 in the state.
MAY WIN TEXAS SEAT.
Dallas, Tex., Nov. 3.—Intense in
terest centered today in the congres
sional race in the 14th Texas district
where on the face of unofficial re
turns from an estimated 60 per cent,
of the votes cast. Harry M. Wups
bach, republican, was leading his
democratic opponent, Carlos Bee, in
cumbent, by more than 2,000. Should
Wurzbach maintain his lead it would
be the first time in 26 years that a re
publican congressman has been elected
from southwest Texas. The demo
cratic state ticket, according to un
official and incomplete returns, made
a clean sweep by majorities of about
5 fo 1. All democratic congressmen
also were elected except in the 14th
district.
Boise, Id., Nov. 3.—All democratic
candidate for national officers and the
democratic condidate for governor are
far behind on the face of returns from
from 398 precincts out of 826 in Idaho
early today which give:
Harding, 49,430; Cox, 26,190.
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G. O. P. WINS ARIZONA.
Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. 3.—The entire
republican state and national ticket
with the exception of one seat in
congress, was victorious on the face
of nearly complete returns in Arizona
at 7:30 this morning.
Harding had a “safe” majority over
Cox, with Ralph Cameron leading
Senator Marcus A. Smith, democrat,
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