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Ml. NUOTI HARDING SWEEPS THE COUNTRY AND WILL BE NEXT PRESIDENT THE HERALD. ELECTORAL Total Electoral Votes 531; 266 Vote« ’ Necessary to Win. s IJ « OF All States North of Mason and Cox and Roosevelt Vote Is Confined to Southern Dixon Line Go For I States. Harding. New York.—The uext president of the United States will be Warren G. Harding, present Republican United States senator from Ohio, and the next vice president will be Calvin Coolidge. Republican governor of Maa eeehusetts. That is the verdict of the Millions of voters in one of the great est victories of the Republican party tn the history of the couutry. The unprecedented Republican vic tory. growing by leaps and bounds hourly since the polls closed Tues day night reached Its maximum pro portions when late returns dispelled the doubt that lingered over Tennes see and New Mexico and definitely placed these states in the Harding- Coolidge column. With only three counties in Ten nessee missing. 'Senator Harding has a lead of some 10.000 votes over Gov ernor Cox. Inasmuch as the three counties yet to be heard from went Republican four years ago. returns from these are expected to merely in crease the site of the Harding plurality. Thus is the Republican dream of half Phelan. Democratic. California, was de feated by Samuel M Shortridge. Re publican, and Senator Smith, Demo crat. Maryland, a veteran, lost to O E. Weller, Republican. Seuator Nugent, Democratic, Idaho. I was defeated by ex-Goveruor Good ink- Harding Strong In Border States. In the border states Cox lost every thing except Kentucky, w’hich he ap parently has carried by far less than the uormal Democratic plurality, de- spite the expectation that the en- tranchisement of women would make Democratic states more strongly Democratic as it has made Republi can states more strongly Republican. a century realized. The solid south has been broken. in New Mexico, with only two coun ties missing. Senator Harding has a lead in the returns Wednesday of 3000. Along with Arizona, Missouri and a few other states which the Demo crats did not give up until the last moment, in addition to New Mexico and Tennessee, this gives the Repub licans a victory so gigantic that even the G. O. P. leaders found it hard to realize. Republicans Carry All Northern Statee. The Harding-Coolidge ticket carried every state north of the Mason-Dixon line and every state west of the Mis sissippi river with the exception of Ar- ‘ kansas and Louisiana. In the presidential fight the returns showed that the Cox-Roosevelt ticket had lost at least nine states which President Wilson carried four years ago—California, Colorado, Idaho, Kan sas, Maryland. New Hampshire, Ohio, Utah and Washington. Senator Harding and Governor Coolidge will have 404 votes in the electoral college. Only once before in the history of the .nation has this electoral vote been surpassed. That was in 1912, the year of the Repub lican schism, when Woodrow Wilson rolled up 435 votes in the college. Be fore that memorable year. Theodore Roosevelt held the honors, having re ceived 336 votes in 1904, the year always pridefully pointed to as repre senting Che high water mark of poli tical endeavor and victory. Harding and Coolidge carried 3< state«, taking along With them to triumph the governorships of 26 states and numerous senatorial and congres sional candidates. Even Texas elected one Republican congressman and several Texas towns gave Harding a plurality, although the state of course, was traditionally Dem ocratic. Cox and Roosevelt will have but 127 votes in the electoral collage. Republican Plurality 7.000,000. WTille it probably will be some days before the popular plurality of Harding and Coolidge will be definite ly known it appeared certain Thurs day that it would be around 7,000,000 votes at a conservative estimate. The greatest plurility giving Harding was from New York, 1,080,000, and the smallest will be from Arizona, New Mexico or Nevada, from 3000 to 5000. Among the Democratic casualties were defeats of Champ Clark of Mis souri, ex speaker and present Demo cratic leader in the house, election of a republicau repi eseutatlve from 3 4 It A B* 4 « I 404 De- 'r. ratte IS \ la ba ma \rknriMM», Florida < «evi già Krntu» ky l.tlUlNlMlUt VIlMNiN'sippI North I’.c’olin.t South Carolina Taxus Virginia other border states—Mary- Virginia and Mis West land. rouri—Harding carried by pluralities that are phenomenal in view of the uormal Democratic strength in this territory. Not even the most wildly optimistic Republican leaders looked forward to the plurality of 50.000, by which Harding apparently carried Maryland, a state which has gone Republican in a national election but twice since the Civil war. Missouri is another state which the Republicans won but twice in the last half century and then only by a hair, but which Harding has captured by a plurality running Into unheard-of figures. West Virginia, where 1 Hughes squeezed through with less than 3000 to the good. Harding has won by 80,000 or more. Kansas, with the double-board sys tern, by which ballots are couated as cast, came in with the first fairly comprehensive returns which showed Harding and the Republican ticket leading there. * Harding Landslide In East. In New York and New England, as in Ohio and Indiana, the Harding ma jorities reported indicated a landslide in the east. As the landslide Ln the east con tinued to roll on and the first indica tions came i that It would extend west ward, the Democratic manai^rx in New York issued announcements con- ceding the election of Harding. Reports I from Illinois were that the Republicans had swept that state from the metropolitan contest in Chicago, where a clean victory was scored for all offices, to the rural regions, giving Senator Harding a lead so large that if the ratio kept up for unreported precincts his majority over Governor Cox would be more than 800,000. Len Small was elected governor by a large margin over ex-3enator Lewis. Wil liam B. McKinley was elected United States senator to suooeed Lawrence Y Sherman. Although Minnesota reported that Harding apparently had carried that state by a decisive majority, the Re publican state ticket, especially for governor and one or two other offices, was running a does race with candi dates indorsed by the Non-partisan league. Louisiana reports were that Repub lican gains were the heaviest recorded in any of the contests since civil war days. Just before 8 o’clook Tuesday night the Naw York World, which supported Cox, flashed its signal lights to aa- aouaos the slooUon of Harding. Returns Indicate That Senator Raturn* Indicate G. 0. P. Ma Chamberlain la Defeated jarltlaa In Bath House By Stanfield. and Senate. Jones Leads His Opponent*In the Race for the United State* Senate. Portland. Or.—Returns from Tues day's election Indicated conclusively that Seuator Harding had carried Ore xou by a vole of nearly 2 to 1 over Governor Cox lu Multuomah county, Harding's majority over Cox was not quite as large as the majorities la ths up-state counties. Harding s plurality in Oregon will l>e upwards of 60,006. and that Robert N. Staufiarid. Republican, has boeu leeted over George K Chamberlain by approximately 15.000 majority wore iidtcatok on the face of returns. It was apparent that In Multnomah ounty Harding will have about lt.OOu mjorlty over Cox and that the up late counties will give him an sddl i tonal 50.0Q0. , ttoattto. Wash Republican <au«U datss won "bands down" lu King cuuu 127 r¡ A ’ I ,Ll HARCING i ! A N'-w York El • : Nat I Miller of Syracuse as governor by .m estimated plurality slightly in ex cess of 70,01’0 as shown in revised figures assured the Republicans ot a clean sweep in the (-lection. vote taint' ited gave Hardinq 13. Cox 779.' ■>8. or a plurality ot ’.058.445. New York City v. it Republican in he pre lib : < itciU '■ f.ir the sec ond time in its li.-■. '■ry. McKinley hav ing turned the trick on Bryan in 1896. The largest popular v ..- previously received by a pres, iential candidate in New York state was 870."70. which Mr. Taft polled in r.O'8. The previous record plurality was made in 1896 when McKinley led Bryan by 268.375 United States Senator James W Wadsworth Jr was leading his Demo , cratic opponent. I,' itenant-Governor Harry Walker, by .’3.991 votes. HARDING HAS BEST BIRTHDAY WARREN G. HARDING WASHINGTON VOTE GOES TO HARDING CONTROL CONGRESS COLLEGE Republican Arllolla Califch nlH Ci iViinm th nt IWIawrit «* Idaho Illinois hull.ilia Iowa KanMs Slain«* Marx land MaaNAchuavt tn I Mil ' Mil i Ursula Nllaavu r I Montana \«*bra.<*ka .XrVaila Nrw I LtmpNhu V Xt\h It't Texas, re-election of a Republican Nr* Mr X h i» Naw eeuator from Missouri. X wrtll I »akoi a < »hlo Among Republican senators elected < Oklahoma in hard con tests wete Leuroot of Wis < irrMoti iVniiNt h mla consin, who was opposed vigorously llhodri I *• a t|d South I Kikuta by Senator La Follette. Spencer of I Tennr **«•«* Missouri, who defeated Breckenridge Hah Vri tiiolit Long, ex-asalstant secretary of state, W .idllliKl \l|.;tl;u and Jones of Washington, seuate com West -*• | merce committee chairman. Seuator W > oinlhg STATES CONSIDERED DOUBT* REPUBLICAN CONTROL SENATE CERTAIN FUL ARE CARRIED FRIDAY. XOVKMHER 4. 1920 Surrounded by Family and Friends. Senator Receives Returns. ’.Marion. O.—Warren G. Harding Tuesday had the greutrxt lurthday ;iartv of hix life. Surrounded by mt-mberH of his fam ily and a circle of neighborx gnd per ional friends. h>- received quietly at his home here the tribute of the mil lions who had voted to present him on his 55th anniversary with the pres- idency of the United States. The smile of confidence he for week« broadened as he the. early returns and began to re i ceive a flood of congratulations hail ing him as the president-elect. While the senator was at dinner a committee of employes of the Marion Star, his newspaper, called to present j him with a gold printer's makeup rule, and he came out on the front porch and. with his voice < hoking with emo tlon, thanked them for their devotion. i I OHIO AVALANCHE GROWS Harding’s Plurality Over Cox Over 300,000 Mark. Columbus, O.—The republican ava lanche of votes that swept over the nation Tuesday, continued to pile up majorities by tthe thousand in Senator Harding’s home state for his col leagues. Not a republican candidate for state office was defeated, and returns in dicated the possibility that the entire Ohio delegation in the next congress may be Republican. In the present congress, there are eight Democrats and 14 Republloans from Ohio. Harding's plurality over Cox bas passed the 300,000 mark. Ex-Governor Willis’ plurality will approximate the 300,000 mark in hlH race against W. A. Julian for the seat to be vacated by Senator Harding. R. N STANFIELO . New York. — Senator Mardiag s sweop thrvugb doubtful stateo In tbo eaat aad middle wett appoars to havo carrtod wtth It asaurancee vf a werk- lug majority la tbo aeat coagreas Amoag tbe statee la wblch seao- torial elootioas wem doubtful. Hard- Inga appareat victortee la Coaaoollout and New Hampshire probably bave carrtod Soaalors Mrandegeo aad Moooe, respoctlvely, bock le tbelr Son ate aoata. la Cotorado aad 14a.hu raturas I b - dloato tbat RopubHcaa caudtdatoo S. D. Ntobetooa aad Freak R Good lag bavo ridden In eu tbe Hardlng wave, uaeeaUag tbo present Democratlc Sen ators. Cbaries Tbeasaa aad James Nugaat. Besäter Wadowerth bas booa iw eloctod froal New York aad fermer Govoraor Willis ssoms ua easy »toter In Ohio Both Victor les wore oipeotod aad mar* ne gatos for tbo Ropublt- ceas. Tbo KepuMleeas wMI apparoutly havo lu tbo Best senalo a certaln ma Jorlty of 17, a probable majority of II end a peealblo majority of 80. wltb (hs furdher remote poaslblllty of 28 If Kentucky should return a Republl- caa in place of Beckham (Dem ). Hassd on rvturcv in and tbe ludlcaled trood la statee wteere tbe roeult le not final. It appoars that tbo houao ot rep resaatallvea In toe slxty oovoatb con greas will bo coeatttuted approxlmately as followe: Republiken«. 278; Demo crata, III. Independents. 2. Protei bl t Ion lote 1. Thle entlaste, wblle not final, weuld glve tbo Ropubllcans a majority ot 111. Tb« preeoal majority of tbo RopuMIcaas la 29. Successful Republican Candidate fer United States Senator from Oregsn REPUBLICANS WIN IN IDAHO Harding has carried every county in Oregon ou the basis of unofficial returns Tt was Indicated by reports that Senator I Chamberlain had carried Baker. Crook. Deschutes, Harney and Jefferson counties. Ths complete vote in Hood River also gave him a plur ality of 107. The contest between toe two senatorial candidates was close in Union ar ! Coos counties In none of the counties that Cham herlain carried was his majority over Stanfield large. In Hie first congressional district the sole opponent of W. C. Hawley was a socialist and polled but a com paratively slight vote. , In the second district, N. J. Slnnwtt ■vax opposed by a Democrat. James Harvey Graham of Baker county. In complete returns showed that Rep resentative Sinnott had Carried hie district by a vote better than two tn one. Congressman M< Arthur was re-elect 'd in the Portland district by a de cisive majority. The anti race Illation bill has gone <lown to deteat and the oleomargarine bill hut been defeated by a ratio of more than 2 to 1. The compulsory voting measure has also been rejected by the people by 2 to 1, as has the state market commission bill. Single tax hi^< met the decided rejection by the people. The measure has been swamped by more than a two-to-one vote on the early returns, and this lead ban been maintained with the additional returns from la- c omplete precincts. Although the people rejected, ap parently. the divided session of the legislature, they have stamped with approval the measure which extends the legislative session from 4P to <0 days. The lead in favor of this meas ure is suoh that it Is improbable that later returns will upset the verdict. Gooding Is Chooon Over Nugent In Senate Race. Boise. Idaho -Senator Hsrdlag for president, Freak R Gooding. Repub Henn candidate for United Stales sen ator, and D W. Davie, present Repute itoau governor of Idaho, together with the balance or Bbe coagreoolonal and state ticket have carried thio elate with piarallUe« running from 1(000 to lt.bM or mots Late returns, nt- though tor from oom piste, la the slots dearly lndtsatod this Some of the sire ogee* onnntlos la the state, la olndlM Sheoheao in the north, went Msgublkaa. Republican count!«« went escep- tloaaiiy strong for Che Republican ticket. The ticket apparently elect ed oa the returns by safe majorities follows: President. Warren G. Hard ing; «eaator, Frank R Gooding; rep resentatives, first district. Burton Freaeh, second district Addtoon T. Smith. HARDING SWEEPS ILLINOIS Small for Governor and McKinley for Senator Far Ahead. Chicago. Senator Harding was lead ing Governor Cox nearly 3 to 1 In Illinois on the face of return«. In the gubernatorial contest Len Small, Re publican. who had the support of Mayor Thompson of Chicago, was leading f irmer Senator James Ham ilton Lewis, Democrat, less than 2 to 1, while William IJ. McKinley, Repub lican candidate for senator, had better than a 2-to-l lead over Peter Walley, Democrat. Iowa Strongly Republican. Dee Moines.—From president on down to minor state offices Iowa has gone Republican by overwhelming majorities. On the basis of returns, Harding’s majority in Iowa will be ap proximately 400,000; Cummins’ ma "Joe’’ Cannon Is Re-elected. jority will be around 200,000 and Ken Danville. Ill ReprexentatTve Jcixeph dall's will be about 150,000, political G. Cannon, formor speaker of the authorities were predicting. houxe of r> rirc'Hentatlvex. hHH been re turned to congrexs from the eighth California Goes Republican. Illinois district. I' will be bis twenty- San Francisco.—California has gone third term in the lower house. overwhelmingly Republican. Returns indicated that Harding and Coolidge Republicans Show Gains In Missouri. have carried the state by more than Rt Louis, Mo. -Overcoming an early 300,000. Samuel M Shortridge defeat lead, the Republican candidate for ed the Democratic incumbent decisive .president.* senator and governor show ly, returns giving Hhortridge 833,700 ed a slight margin on the face of early and Phelan 313,(19. unofficial returns In Missouri. ly aud th« slat« of Washington Tba suldlsr«' bonus bill was passed by au uuuilstakabl« majority Tbs Carlyuu (30.0ou.000 road bond measure was beaten tmtest figures Indicated that Bena tor Harding's plurality will be nearly 12(.86O ovsr Christensen, who Is sun sing secoud Harding will Itav« mors votes than Chrlslenseti and Cox com biaed Governor Hart's plurality ovei Bridges and black likely will be IU. •00. He will lead Bridges, who 4s ruunlng second, by more than (u uou. atx'ordlug to present Indications Senator Jones was reported to have swept the state with a big plurality, running ahead of Uta ticket lu some oeuatles WESLEY L. JONES Re-elected United Ststee Senstor ftjm the State of Washington All five Republican congressmen ap parently bad been returned to office by tba heavy Republican vote tbru igb out the stale Following were winners lu tbe elate election Governor, Louis F. Hart; lleuien- ant-governor, William J Coyle; a<. ro tary of state. J Grunt Hinkle; Mute treasurer, Clifford I, ll.ib<<xj<. Mate auditor. C W Cluixseu. attorney x«n* aral L. L. Thompson; commb - loner of public lands. Clark V Savidge, super intendent of public Instruction. Jose phine C. Preston, state Insurance < oiu mission«!-, II O l i lit»««« k. Outstanding features of the elec tion In eastern Washington were the elimination of the farmer labor party as a factor In the farm counties and answer of Republican voters of toe fifth congressional district to the charge tbat Representative Webster, reelected by n majority of nearly 8UU0 vatea. wax for the corporations aud opposed to lubor. Harding kendo Coelidgo Qood Wlshoo. Marton, O.— At 11 o’clock Tuesday night. Seaator Horsing seal the fol lowtag telegram to Govornor Cool idge "My heartiest congratulations over the great Republican victory to stoich your strength added so materi ally You are to expeet to play a full part la the coming Republican admin istration. Good wiebea.” To Wilt H. Hart Leads In Pierce County. Haye, Republican national chairman, Tacoma. Wash.- Early returns from Mr. Harding telegraphed: "My grat- Undo aloM with congratulations on Pierce county gave Governor Hart a lead over Robert Bridge« and your capable aad successful manag« Judge Black Senator Harding led In moat of a great campaign " the same ratio agalm t Governor Cox. Senator Jones overwhelmed George F. Wlooonoln Cleets Senator LenrooL Milwaukee, Win.—Republican candi Cetterlll In the senatorial race. Albert Johnson had a great lead In dates ware ouccesoful In virtually every contest la Tuesday s election in Wis early returns over George T. Fish consin. Senator I. L. Loaroot was re elected over James Thompson. Inde pendent and Democratic and Socialist opposition and the whole list of 11 members of the national bouse of rep- roseatatlves la Republican. burn« and Homer Tlione for congress The whole Republican ticket ran far ahead of the Democratic and Farmer- Labor candidates in the field. Mentane Jolno RopuMlean Landoildo. Holoaa. Moni — The lead takea by RopubMeaa candidate« for presldent, govornor and congreso In Montana on early return« waa malntalaed sa more completo reparto wore recelved from thè «tato, l'ormar Senator J. M. Dlxon, Hepublloaa nomiaeo for govornor, was nearly 10.HO votoe ahead of B. K. Wheeler. hi« Democratlc eppenont. Indicate that the anti alien land amend ment, which has been the subject of diplomatic exchanges between th« state department aud Toklo, has car California Land Bill Appears Law. Ban Francisco.—Return« appear to ried. Harding Victor In New York City. New York.—New York city, com plete, gave Harding 785,776, Cox 345,- (35, Debs 131.856 In the guberna torial race. New York city complete; Smith, 709,74(. Miller. 691),135. Portland Mayor Ro-llectod. Portland, Or.—Mayor Baker has Ropubllcans Win In Delaware. been re-elected on first-choice votes, judging from toe Incomplete returns. Wilmington, Del The Republicans His lead over all other opponents on apparently will carry the national and first choice to (12 voles. City Com- state tickelx in Inlnware by plural mlsaioaera Mann and Barbur have also ities ranging from 3000 to 5000. been re-elected. Harding Carries Roosevelt's Town. NkMtn*’ Carries Wilson's Olotrlot. Hyde Park, N. Y.—Senator Harding Princeton, N. J.*—President Wilson's oarrled Hyde Park, the home town of homo district la Princeton went for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic Harding aad Coolidge by above five vice presidential nominee, by 86 votes. to one. Republloans Win In Louisville. Louisville, Ky.—Senator Harding Harding Cerrloe Home Preelnet. Marlon, O.—Senator Harding's home bad a majority over Governor Cox in preelnet gave Harding. »78, Can, 7». Louisville aud Jsifersou county.