The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-11-17
French Elections Are Sharp
Reply to Red Challenge.
Radical Candidates for Cham
Der Meet Sweeping Defeat.
CLEMENCEAU IS INDICATED
Extremists Garry Only Ten
Seats Out of 120.
Anti-SOcialists Win 1911 Places
in zoe Constituencies.

Paris, Nov. 17.-France has replied ,
to the BoIshevik challenge with
sweeping defeat of Radical candi- !
dates.
Returns up to 2:40 o'clock this
afternoon from yesterdays elections !;
for the chamber of deputies, covering
about one third of the total vote cast. /
showed the radicals have lost ground /
turnout the republic
Socialist Leaders Beaten.
The results so far showed the Con-
servatives, Nationalist and Moderates !
far in the lead, these parties winning /
191 seats in the zoe constituents for |
which complete figures have been re- |
ceived. The extreme Socialists re-
ceiv-' a severe setback turnout the !
country, and in general the Socialists !
suffered the defeat of many of their ,
leaders Pierre RenaudeL leader of {,
the majority Socialists; Jean Longuet. /
leader of the minority Socialists; |
Henry Franklin Bouillon, the radical
socialist chairman of the foreign re- /
lations committee of the chamber of ,
deputies. who has urged rejection of
the peace treaty, and Pierre Prizonn !
We're beaten. The returns show a
gain of forty-six seats for the moder- !
ates and a loss of sixteen for the ex-
tremists
Gen. Edouard de Castelnau and Gen.
of Metz, weEe elected but Gen. Nj. p |
E Sarrail and Gen. PIERRE Roaues
went down to defeat. Aristide BRAND /
and Rene Niviani.. both former pre-
miers, were returned but Prof. Paul
Painleve, also former prime minis /,
ter, was defeated.
Alleged Traitor Loses.
Paul Meunier, the radical Republi- /!
can deputy who was recently arrested !
charged with having had intelligence |
with the enemy, received only $500
votes in the Aube district Albert F. !
1ebrun, former minister of blockade /
and the invaded regions. who was dis !
missed from his post by Premier Gle I
menceau because his name appeared |
on the same list with that of Deputy
Louis Marin, who cast his vote against T,
the peace treaty, was elected as was
Marin The list of Georges Mandel, /
Premier Clemenceau's chief confden-
tal secretary whose assassination was )
attempted in Bordeaux early on the
morning of November 10. was first in
the Bordeaux district. The whole list
was elected.
Captain Andre Tardieu, the pres
ent minister of blockade and the in
vaded regions, was victorious in Seine /
Et-Oise. Baron Maurice de Roths-
child was elected in the Pyrenees.
Cionenceau is Yimlicatcd.
The campaign had conferred very
largely on Yindfcation & of the war
policies OF Premier Ctemenceaa and
his actions in the peace conference.
Socialists who opposed many of Gle
menceau's measures, put on strenu-
Gus campaign to defeat his supporters.
A grouping of non-Sociafist parties,
known as. the bloc national" fol-
/ lowed and the Socialists apparently
! were generally defeated. They polled
a heavy vote in many of the larger
| cities, however.
Election INV 1aScad
| orders Elaborate precaution by the
government were believed to have dis
couraged any demonstrations planned
! by the radicals.
Despite bad weather turnout France
t-snows in Paris and thruout the
northern departments and heavy rains
| in the south-the vote was unusually
| heavy.
| At midnight results in Paris indi-
Gated that six supporters of Premier
tested, had seen seated. The Repub-
lican vote was given unofficially as
| 534.102 in the suburbs against 211, 331
for the Socialists.
| Complete returns from twenty-seven
| departments in which there were I20
| deputies to be elected show the Rad
| ical Socialists carried only ten seats.
Politicians everywhere considered
| the Republican victory as complete
vindication of the policies of the gov
| eminent.
Conservatives Win in Italy.
| Rome. Nov. 17.-Conservative can
| didates apparently had succeeded gem
orally in overcoming the threatened
| Socialist sweep in Sundays parlia-
| mentary elections Candidates of the
Catholic parties seem to have scored
| heavily.
Altho violence and rioting had
| marked the campaign thruout the en-
tire kingdom. election day passed
| quietly. according to reports reaching
| here.
Indications Sunday night were that
| 119 Ministerialists. % members of the
constitutional opposition. IS Socialists,
30 Catholics, Fl Nationalist and IA
Republicans had been elected to the
chamber of deputies. Extra ordinary
measures were adopted by the author
! tiles TO insure the safety of the cleo
| tors. In Rome alone, ten thousand
carabineers~ and military police were
ltengaged in this duty, in addition to the
ordinary police. In the province of
Potenza it was believed Premier Nitti
! was elected by a large majority. De-
spite strong opposition Vittorio Or