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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1924)
_ ’ _ The Frontier. 4 _ #* ^5<*r '•**?' ? ■ >, ' VOLUMN XLV. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1924. NO. 23. i Iverwhelming Republican Victory Country Endorses Coolidge Administration and Rebukes Wall Street-Radical Coalition By Large Vote Norris, McMullen and Simmons Were Triumphant. Other Republican Congressmen Also Returned. Dickson and Malone Elected in District and County SENATOR GEORGE W. NORRIS President Calvin Coolidge will continue to be the presi dent of these United States. The policies of the Republi can party, assuring peace JUDGE ROBT. R. DICKSON and prosperity to the Ameri can people, will continue for another four vears. i The voters of the nation,! Tuesday, so decreed by such #*____ . _ an avalanche of ballots that the coalition of Wall Street and Radicalism which sought to gain control of the coun try’s affairs stands bewilder ed at its overwhelming re pudiation. The nation has gone republican by one of the \ largest popular votes in its i history. Nebraska has con tributed to this result by giv ing President Coolidge a ma jority of more than 70,000 and by the election of Adam McMullen, the republican candidate for governor, by a majority as large or larger. Senator George W. Norris, Congressman Robert G. Simmons, Congressman Sears and Congressman Mc-| Laughlin, Nebraska’s three! republican congr e s s m e n have been most decisively re elected. Both houses of the state legislature will have| large republican majorities.' The total of Pi’esident Coolidge in j the electoral college on the returns; now in is 343 and still increasing. John W. Davis, the democratic candi date, has 136 with possibilities of a small increase and La Follette is precariously clinging to the 13 of Wis consin, the only state which he so far has not definitely lost. The small vote for Davis is not a surprise. Not even to Mr. Davis’ most enthusiastic mana gers. They have known all along and admitted in private conversations that one of the very big mistakes of the democratic national convention was the coupling of the name of Mr. Davis with that of Charles W. Bryan. This frightened very many democrats over into the republican ranks and made the more emphatic the already as surred victory of Coolidge. The ex tremely poor third posit! which La Follette occupied at the c; rclusion of the presidental race demo*, trated be yond question that the people of all sections of the country are decidedly posed to radicalism, no matter how it may disguise itself. La Follette’s; reduced vote in Wisconsin, even ( though he may carry it, is a rebuke to him. Holt county contributed to the great republican victory by giving Coolidge 2184 votes, as against 2171 for La follette and 1524 for Davis. Senator Norris polled 3803 in the couoty and Thomas 1773. Congressman Robert G. Simmons’ able service for the Sixth congressional district was approved in the county by a vote of 2972, as against 2229 for Beal. On the unofficial returns for thf county, with all precincts in, Adam The President Calvin Coolidge The Vice-President Charles G. Dawes McMullen, the republican candidate for governor, only lost the county by 68 votes, his total being 2544, as com pared with 2612 for Norton and 512 for Butler, There are 44 maij ballots yet to be counted, when the canvass ing board meets, and it is possible that with these and allowing for mis takes in the un-official canvas Mr. Mc Mullen will carry the county. For state senator in the Twenty Second district W. L. Philley, the re publican candidate, received 2747 votes in Holt county and Robertson 2743. Mr. Philley also carried Rock county by 113, and Brown by 41. Robertson carried Boyd county by 269 and Keya Paha by 8 votes. The mail ballots out in the entire district and errors in the unofficial returns make Mr. Philley’s election possible. J. M. Hunter, the republican candi date for representative from the Sixty-Fourth representative district, which includes Holt county only, has triumphed over Frank Harrington, his opponent, by 95 votes, with 2805 for Hunter and 2710. for Harrington. Chauncey Kgyes, the republican can didate, will be the next county asses sor. His vote is 2728 and that of John Melvin, his opponent, 2657. L. C. McKim, supervisor from the Second district, has defeated his demo cratic opponent, John B. Donohoe, by a vote of 422 to 377. L. E. Skidmore, republican incumbent from the Fourth supervisor district won out over two competitions by a very substantial plurality, the vote standing 437 for Skidmore, 310 for W. E. Snyder and I 227 for William Connor. Ira H. Moss, clerk of the district court, and C. N. Nellis, supervisor from the Sixth district, make it pos sible for each of the three parties, to boast of landing two of their candi dates in the county. These gentle men come from the southwest part of the county, where only good men are selected for office. They have chewed sand from the same hills and drank from the same flowing wells. So all parties re-nominated them for their respective positions and everybody voted for them. Two non-political victories ;which are pleasing to the Entire people of the county are tb*-£e of Judge Robert R. Dickson for judge of the Fifteenth judicial district and of County Judge Clarence J. Malone for the position he now holds. Judge Dickson’s vote in Holt county was 3337 and that of his opponent, J. H. Berryman of Bassett, 1943. Judge Dickson also carried Brown county by 922, Boyd by 1094, Keya Paha by 616 and Rock, Berry man’s home county, by 243. Judge Malone’s vote was 3257 and that of S. W. Kelley, his opponent, 2102. The amendment to the state consti tution, which would have abolished the party circle on the ballots at the general election and practically abolish political parties in the state, J was defeated by a vote of 2343 against, as compared with 1729 for. Governor Smith’s pluriality in New York city was 514,818, the largest any candidate for office ever received. President Coolidge carried tha city by 137,834. The governor’s plurality in the state, including the city, was 115,702, with 104 up-state districts CONGRESSMAN BOB SIMMONS missing. The governor was the only member of1 his party’s state ticket to win. Senator Norris seems assured of the biggest majority ever accorded a candidate for office in Nebraska. Nor ris’ lead over J. J. Thomas reached 92,000 votes with 1,862 precincts re ported. Norris’ total majority should be about 100,000 when the official * figures are all in* COUNTY JUDGE C. J. MALONE Three women were elected state representatives—the first time mem bers of their sex have been elected to this office in Nebraska. They are: Sarah T. Muir, thirty-sixth republi can; Clar^ Humphrey, republican, of the ninety-first district in western Ne^ braska, and Mabel Gillespie of Sarpy county, democrat.
