The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-11-18
SOLID SOUTHIS
BROKEN BY COP.
Harding Wins 404 Electoral
Votes in 81 States; Cox
127 in II States.
VICTORY IS LIKE AVALANCHE
Sweeps North, East and West Clean
and Breaks Over Mason and
Dixon's Line-Big Gains in
Senate and House.
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.

BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.
The q. o. P. has broken into the
Solid South. Here's the election story:
Harding wins 4O4 electoral votes in
81 states; Cox 127 in IL states.
Republicans in senate, 50; Demo
rats, 81 as against 40 and Al respec'
lively in Sixty-sixth congress.
Republicans in house, 2S5; Demo
:rats, AS; as against 240 and 191
respectively in Sixty-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 j.
Ernst, Republican, is elected to the
senate over ]. c. 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 IN
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. P 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 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.
It 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. R.
B. Creager, q 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 gOOdly 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 fortnight at
Point Isabel. He has been preaching
that the new American merchant ma
rine should pass free through the Pan
anna canal and he wants first-hand in
formation on con -ItiOns. Return is
set Tor December 6. He plans to re-
sign his seat as senator January 10,
when GOvernor-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 a new title
IN the electiOn-"MiraCleM Man of Amer
lean Politics" Why, he almost re-
elected himself in the faces0f a Hard
ing majority of more than million.
The presidential vote was about this !:
Harding, 1916, POD; Cox, TS2. 500. The
gubernatorial vote was about this:
Miller, 1915. $50; Smith. 1256. 81. 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
tics laid down by the practical poll
ficians. wins his seventeenth success
sive candidacy.
Oklahoma elects Alice NJ. 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 a heaven-born
cook
California Overwhelmingly indorses
the anti-alien land law recently adopt
ed by the state legislature. Massa-
chusetts approves the act to IegaIize
the manufacture and sale of beer and
wines of 2.75 alcoholic content. Wis
consin approves 2.5 per cent beer. New
York approves q bonus for soldiers by
the Issue Of bonds not to exceed $45,-
100000.
Hull of the Income Tax.