Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-06
TuEspAYs ELECTION RESULTS

n
& nn1ITH both OF the two old parties
claiming advantage, the result of
= 4ssday's elections held in various
y states are decidedly interesting. Ken
lucky Is to have a Republican governor.
Edwin r. Morrow having been elected
70 that high office, defeating Governor
Black, Democrat, present incumbent.
\ The Republicans also gained victory
lin Massachusetts, where Governor Cal
win Coolidge was reelected over Rich
ard II. Long, Democrat. Tamany was
given a severe jolt in New York. the
four principal offices going to Repub-
iicans and Independents. The g. o.
r., also won in Illinois where the re-
turns show that in the constitutional
+ convention to be held in that state,
eighty Republicans were elected to
twenty two Democrats. While the
election at San Francisco was con-
& Quoted along non partisan lines, Mayor
J<IlitS IkOipiir wiz - VI tAC ANSPopiSaii
political faith. was reelected Phila
delphia elected Congressman J. Hamp
ton Moore, Republican of the third
Pennsylvania district as it's new mayor.
There is a close race in Baltimore for
mayor.
On the face of the returns the Re-
+ mi ms srnrnG n Vieiprv their
old time rivals the Democrats. 1t was
a Republican day.
4 The Democrats are given credit with
success in New Jersey where Edward
T. Edwards. Democratic, appears to
\ have been elected governor over New
ton A. X. Bugbee, Republican. In Mis-
sissippi they elected Lee NJ Russell for
governor. The returns from New Jer-
sey were of more than passing interest
because it is the home state of Presi-
dent Wi son and victory there for the
Republicans would have been signif-
can't.
The Kentucky election is more or
less reflective of the feeling that exists
/ -.
In many Of the states with regard to
the peace treaty still pending before
congress to be ratified. Governor Black
lead the Democratic forces in show
down fight for ratification of the treaty
and the covenant of the league of ma
lions. The Republicans, headed by
Morrow, who was successful in the race
for governor, made a bitter fight on
both the treaty and covenant. The re-
e turns show that he was on top of the
landslide which. starting at Louis
Vile. heretofore always Democratic,
swept that city into the Republican
column with a majority of 5000 and
then spread over the state. The Re
publicans carried the entire state
ticket. gained control of the house of
representatives in the state legisla-
ture and badly crowded the Democrats
IN the state senate
The wet and dry issue also came
tions After less than six months of
4 actual prohibition. Ohio Sprang the
surprise of the day by voting to re-
main in the dry column by ma jority
three times larger than that by which
1t first voted prohibition a year ago.
Y The drys certainly scored a sweeping
victory in that state The proposal to
uphold the state legislature in ratify-
j ing the federal prohibition amendment
I WAS strongly indorsed. There was a
favorable vote on a referendum on the
crAbbe prohibition enforcement bill
i passed by the legislature and a pro
posed amendment TO the constitution
to permit the manufacture of beer
\ containing 2.75 per cent alcohol was
S defeated
In Kentucky hopes are still being en-
tertained by the vets that they were
i victorious. Encouraged by the defeat
Of Governor Black, who was known
a. dry candidate, they see pos
ability OF the final count giving then
4 Z wet state. The drys seem to be con
ndent that they have been victoIious.
The Socialists lost ground in botf
New York and Mississippi. In the lat
tar state they polled less than ter
thousand votes. They claimed, in thu
New York election. that James o'Neill
their candidate for aIdermnnic presi
dsnt. would poll more votes than Morri,
Htiquist did in the mayoralty election
n 1917. but they failed to make good
d "a that prediction.