The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-11-13
BREAKS INTO SOLID SOUTH
Harding Wins 404 Electoral Votes in
81 Subsidiaries Tennessee, Okla
homa, Arizona and New Mex
ieo-sig Gains In Congress.
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.

neutrality-suspicious., SO; Democrats,
81; as against 40 Republicans and Al
Democrats in Sixty-slxth congress.
House-Republlcans, 2S5; Demo
Gratis, l48; Independent PrOhibltiOnist,
l; Socialist, /; as against $40 Repub-
licans, 1871 Democrats, 2 Independents,
l PrOhibitiOnlst and / Socialist in Six
ty-sixth congress.
In comment, the household word
avalanche seems the handiest. The
Republican avalanche began at the
Canadian border, from Maine to Wash
ingtOn, and swept the country clean
clear to Mason and DiXOn's line and
broke the Solid South.
The Republican avalanche swept
Tennessee, Oklahoma, New Mexico
and Arizona. In Kentucky Richard ].
Ernst, Republican, is elected to the
senate over ]. G. w, Beckham. For
the first time in history several cOun-
ties in Alabama went Republican, and
several precincts in the sixth Missis-
sippi district did the same almost I'M
believable thing. Harding carried st.
Petersburg, Orlando, Daytona and 9th
er towns in Florida; nine counties in
northern Georgia and dozen parishes
in the sugar belt Of Louisiana, The
G.. o. 2. picked up a congressman in
Texas; Harry NJ. Wurzback defeated
Carlos Bee, brOther-in-law Of Postmas-
ter General BuriesOn.
President-elect Harding, whatever
else he does, is going to take a rest.
He's already off on a real vacation Of
a month. His immediate destination
is Point Isabel, Tex, via San Antonio
and Brownsville. Point Isabel is on
the Gulf, 20 miles from Brownsville
and six miles from the Mexican line.
1t has a population Of 100 whites and
$50 MexiCans. There golf, bathing,
fishing and hunting are right at hand.
Col. F. E. ScObey, now Of San Antonio
and formerly sheriff of Marion county,
Ohio, made him promise to go, win or
lose, the night he was nominated. K.
B. Creager, a San Antonio banker, who
seconded his nomination at Chicago,
has turned over his cottage. Of course,
the poor man will be guarded by Sc
cret service operatives and pestered by
newspaper men and photographers
but he will have a g0odly company OF
golf buddies and other intimate friends
along. And politics and visitors Will
be barred.
Mr.. Harding is planning to go to
the Canal Zone, after a fortnight at
Point Isabel. He has been preaching
that the new American merchant ma
rine should pass free through the Pan
ANA canal and he wants tirst-hand in
formation on conditions. Return is
set for December 6. He plans to re-
sign his seat as senator January III,
when GoYernor-elect Davis of Ohio will
be inaugurated and SenatOr-elect Will
lis will be appointed Mr.. Harding's
successor.
Alfred E. Smith, Democratic COVER
nor of New York, earned new title
in the Miracle Man of Amer
lean Politics" Why he almost re-
elected himself in the face Of a Hard
ing majority Of more than a million.
The presidential vote was about this:
Harding, 1892 22; Cox, 7S2,693. The
gpbernatorial vote was about this:
Miller, 1,S19,586; Smith, 1,256,S11. Re
publicans and Democrats alike say the
feat Is unprecedented. cal" as every
body Calls him, has come up from an
orphan newsbOy. Now he is spoken
of as the logical candidate for the
presidency in 1924.
By-prOducts Of the election are many
and interesting. Harding skaters a
tradition that no sitting senator can be
elevated to the White House. Coolidge,
who violates every principle of poll
ties laid down by the practical poll
ticians, wins his seventeenth success
sive candidacy.
Oklahoma elects Alice N. Robertson
of Muskogee, Republican, aged sixty
six, to congress; she went to Indian
Territory by prairie schooner, has
taught in Indian schools most of her
life. would let no soldier or sailor pay
in her cafeteria and is heaven-bOrn
cook. Harry T. Burn. Republican
member of the Tennessee legislature
who cast the deciding vote for the suf-
frage amendment ratification. is re-
elected by a plurality Of about 100,
after bitter fight JaiIer Festus
Whitaker of Letcher county, Kentucky.
is elected county judge; he made his
campaign from his own Jail, where he
was confined because Of a fight over
politics last summer.
California overwhelmingly indorses
the anti-alen land law recently adopt
ed by the state legislature. Massa-
chusetts approves the act to legallze
the manufacture and sale of beer and
yr,ipoS of y TX ol0NboIfo oODtnnE Vic