The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-11-05
GREAT LANDSLIDE
FOR REPUBLICANS;
HARDING. ELECTED
Senator's Victory One of Most
Decisive in History.
DEFEATS THE OHIO GOVERNOR
Practically All of the Northern States
Help to Pile Up Tremendous Popu.
lar Plurality for the Repub-
Iican Candidate-Carries
! All Doubtful States.


Ing and Calvin Coolidge have been
elected president and vice president
of the United States.
The Republican victory is so great
that 1t amounts to the landslide which
was predicted by the most enthusiastic
members of that party. The ticket
won by one Of the largest popular plu-
raIfties in the history of American
politics.
Governor Cox was showed under in
the admittedly Republican strongholds,
and In many Of the states classed as
doubtful he was beaten by substantial
pluralitieS. New York. it was esti-
mated, went for Harding by 1,25O, 900 !;
Ohio was claimed by the Republicans
by 250,0OO and the Democratic press
there admitted Harding's plurality was
100000; New Hampshire returned to
the Republican column, and West Vir-
ginian's early returns indicated it had
gone against Cox. Missouri, too, was
claimed by the Harding managers.
Here are the approximate plurali-
ties for Harding in some middle west
ern states; Illinois, 100000; Iowa,
10000; Indiana, $1,000; Michigan,
10000; Wisconsin, 225,OOO.
If as President Wilson insisted the
ballOting was a referendum on the
League of Nations, then the Versailles
pact has been repudiated with astound-
Ing emphasis, and particularly by
the women of the country, the over
whelming majority of whom voted SOL
idly for Senator Harding The gen.
eral opinion among political observers
was that the vote is to be taken as a
reputation of the Democratic admins
iration and as an expression of the
widespread desire for Change"
At eleven p. m. Governor Cox wired
his congratulations to Senator Harding.
This was about fifteen minutes after
his newspaper had conceded Harding's
election
Ohio Strong for Harding.
Ohio, having stepped out of the Re-
publican ranks in 1916 to help elect
Mckinley plurality. The plurality for
Senator Harding is claimed by Repub.
lican leaders to run in excess of 25O.-
600.
In Cleveland, for instance. which
went strongly for Wilson four years
ago, $50 precincts gave Harding 81
36S to 06,501 for Cox. Columbus gave
in 647 precincts Harding 2,455; Cox
1864.
In the face of such returns the
Cleveland Press, a paper which ardent
~ supported Cox. conceded Ohio to
Harding by at least 100000.
State Chairman Clark wired Sena-
tor Harding that his home state had
given the Marion candidate a plurali-
~ of 100000. Hardings own precinct
seems to have been actuated by local
patriotiSnl, the vote being Harding 373,
Cox 76
West Virginia. another of the So
called doubtful states showed the
same Republican trend, Senator Hard
ing leading by two to one in the first
score of districts to report
In cOncededly Republican territory
like Massachusetts. the Harding vic
tory was sufficient to Overturn dis
tricts that had been Democratic for
more than % years. Boston. never
Republican since McKinley's victory
over Bryan, gave the Republican
standard bearer a plurality of nearly
10000 and in the state the Republi-
can lead was estimated at $4,000.
In the Middle West
Missouri. with 16 electoral votes
vital to Governor COX's cause, appeared
on the face of incomplete returns
to be swinging into the Republican
column. In districts that had been Re
publican in 1915 the Democratic vote
was almost negligible.
In Kansas and Illinois the Republi.
can victory was conceded almost from
the receipt of the first returns. In
these states Mr.. Cox had apparently
not held much more than the Wilson
strength of 1916, while Senator Hard
ing had added to the Hughes strength
three out of four of the new women
voters. The Republican lead in Hi
nOis was put as high as $4,000.
However, admitting the general and
unmistakable impression of a great
Republican victory based on early re-
turns, Democratic national leaders
were far from throwing up the sponge
keeping in mind the experience of 1915
They claimed Kentucky and Idaho had
gone Democratic, according to their re
ports, and that later figures would
change the apparent results in other
sections.
Despite the lesson of 1916, when
nearly every newspaper in New York
was forced to reverse itself, the Man
haitian newspapers early announced
the result The World, Post and Brook
Ign Eagle. all Democratic, conceded
the defeat of their candidate early IN
the evening, convinced that Harding