The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-11-06
DEMOCRATS WIN
IN TWO STATES
Elect New Jersey Cover
nor-Hold Lead in
Maryland.
DRYS CLAIM VICTORY
Despite Wet Lead in Ohio
Prohibitionists Say Rural
Vote Is Enough.

BALTIMORE, Md, Nov. 5--Indi-
cations tonight, with practically all
counties accounted for. are that Al
! bert c. Rnchie. democrat, has been
elected governor OF Maryland over
| Harry W Nice, republican, 10y the
narrow margin OF 327 votes. Win
! Garrett county only estimated, the
| total unofficial vote follows: Riichic
(democrau, III, las; Nice frepublic-
am, llOSlS
| NEW YORK, Nov. 5.--Complste
! returns OF the vote for STATE assem-
| bly, show that the republicans elect
| ed 1Os out OF $50 members. n gain
OF 10 votes over their plurality last
| year Democrats elected 80 mem
bers as compared with - last year.
while the socialists again sent TWO
members TO the lower branch OF thS
state legislature.
The republicans also gained one
vote in the upper house and now
have majority OF nine members IN
the body.
TRENTON. N J.. Nov State
Senator Edward |. Edwards, demo-
tcrat, running on an prohibition
~
New Jersey Yesterday over state
Comptroller Newton A. X. Bugbee.
his republican opponent, by plural
ity OF 1859 with only 10 districts
missing out OF 20Il in the state. The
vote was Edwards, 2l437s; Bug
sbee. zoo is9
Prohibition was the big issue Rug
bee lost his own precinct In Trenion
nv l3 votes and the city BY 50 votes
Democratic leaders claimed tbat Ed
wards elect3on was an Endorsement
OF the Nsflonaladmin miniSiration but re-
publicans disputed this pointing TO
the political complexion Of the next
state legislature. the republicans
having elected Is OF the 81 senR-
tors and 80 ofcbhe 60 assemblymen.
COLUMBUS, Ohio Nov. with
complete and incomplete returns re-
ceiyed from 20 out OF the sS counties,
and representing slightly more than
one third OF the precincts In the
state, figures at the office OF Sec
rotary Of state Smith tonight showed
the four prohibition proposals~RiV-
ing wet majorities Of from $1,000 10
80 600
officials OF the secretary OF states
office pointed out that practically all
state are represented In the above
figures bv complete votes. whiIe the
rura' counties, the strongholds or
the drys are yet to be heard from.
Chief Statistician Johnson OF the
secretarys office continued tonight
To predict that all four proposals
had bpen c1rr'od "" H''S .n
OF them by from 10000 10 $4,000.
He admitted however, that later re
turns show that the dry majority
TO, The Crahhe prohibition enforce
ment bill referendum may not he as
large az he at first anticipated.
On the strength Of available re-
turns today L. H. Gibson. campaign
manager for the ohio Home Rule
association issued a statement a.
Cincinnati saying the wets conceded
ttha the drys had voted against the
repeal OF stNe- wide prohibition by
from $4,000 to 10000 but insisting
that the vets had carried the other
three proposals,
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Nov. 5.--Com-
plete unofficial returns from lI9 out
OF the 100 counties OF the state to-
night gave Edwin + Morrow, re-
publican, a majority OF 1892 votes
over Governor James H. Black, dem
ocrat. in yesterdays balloting for
governor OF Kentucky. Republican
state headquarters estimated Nor
rows majority at approximately
$4,000.