Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-11-13
Sweeps Everything Before 1t in
North, East and West.
BREAKS INTO SOLID SOUTH
Harding Wins 4o4 Electoral Votes In
81 Subsidiaries Tennessee, Okla
homa, Arizona and New Mex
ico-Bq Gains in Congress.
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.

Electoral vnte-IIarding, 4O4 in 81
states cox. I27 in II states.
senate Republicans. 80; Democrats,
81 as against ~ Republicans aud a
Democrats in SiXty-siXth congress
House Republicans, -; Demo
Gratis. i+N: lndcpendeu; rrOhihiti"niSt,
]; Socialist, /; aS against no Rrpub-
licanS. 1871 Democrats independents,
PrnhihitiuniSt and Socialist in Six
ty-siXth congress.
H. comment. the household word
avalanche seems The handieSt. The
Republican avalanche began at the
Canadian border. from Maine To Wash
iugtun. and swept the country clean
! clear 20 Mason and DiNon'S line and
broke She Solid South.
TIE Republican avalanche swept
Teuhes see, oklahoma, New Mexico
anG Arizona. In Kentucky Richard J.
! Ernst. Republican. is elected to the
senate over !. &. W. Beckham. For
| the first time In history several coun-
| ties in Alabama went Republican, and
several precincts in the sixth M'NSiS-
sippi district did the same almost I'M
| believable thing Harding carried st.
! Petersburg. Orlando. Daytona and 9th
or towns In Florida nine counties in
! northern Georgia and a dozen parishes
In the sugar belt of Louisiana. The
| &. q. L. picked up congressman in
] Al ~ IL L. t.Nl
! Carlos Bee. brother-m-law of FOStmas-
ter General BurleSon.
PrcSident-elect Harding. whatever
else he does, is going to take rest.
He's already off on real vacation or
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.
| II has Il population of 100 whites ana
| 80 MrxicanS. There golf, bathing,
fishing and hunting are right AT hand.
! Col. +. f.. Scohey. now of San Antonio
and formerly sheriff of Marion county,
ohio. made him promise 10 go. win or
! lose, the night he was nominated. X.
Y. Creager. a San Antonio banker, who
seconded his nomination al Chicago,
has turned over his cottage. OF course,
The poor man will he guarded by Sc
rrrt service operatives and pcStered by
newspaper men ami photographers,
bur he will have Il goodly company of
golf huddipS and other intimate friends
along. And politics and visitors will
BE- barred.
Mr. Harding is planning Ia 20 to
the Canal Zone. after a fortnight AT
Point Isabel He has been preaching
that the new American merchant ma
rinc should pass free through the Pan
anna canal aud he wants tirSt-hand in
formation or conditions. Return Is
set for December g. He plans to re-
sign his seat aS senator January 10
when Guvrrnor-elcct Davis of ohio will
be inauguratcd and Standardized vii
lis will he appointed M. Harding
successor.
Alfred r. smith. Democratic COVER
nor of New York. earned a new title
N 'he election Miracle Man OF Amer
lean Politics" Why. he almost re-
elected himself in the face of Hard
ing majority Of more than million
The presidential vote WAS about this
Harding. 1872 222; Cox. 49, 693 The
guh"rnatCrial vote was about this
Miller l,%!95S6: Smith. l.2%6.3ll. Re
a,
feat j. unprecedented. Al" as every
body calls him. has come mp from ar
orphan n"wShey. New he i Spoken
of ~ the logical rnndidar, for IN,
prcsidc"cy in 'o2i.
By-py"Lu"t> Of the election are man,
and increasing. Harding skaters
tradition shat un string >cuniur can h,
elevated To- the White House. Coolidge
Who Violates every principle OF poll
ties laid Down 10y the practical poll
tiCian> wins his seventeenth success
Sive candidacy.
h Oklahoma elect. Alice NJ. Robertson
, Of Muskogee. Republican,. aged sixty
: six, 70 congress: >E1 went to Indian
| territory ny DTPiti" schooner. ma
taught IN Indian ,'huuls most of he
life would let no soldier or sailor IA,
IN her cafeteria and j. heaven .horr
cook Harry T. Burn. Republican
member of The Tennessee Legislature
who east BE deciding vote for the SUI
r6gH amarfU"nt ratification. is 70
! elected nv a plurality ui about 100
after Il hitter tight. JaiIer FeStu
Whitaker Of Letcher county. Kentucky
Is elected county Judge; he made nj
. ! campaign from his own Jail. where h
T was confined because o. q fight owe
politics last summer.
California overwhelmingly indorse
the anii-alien land law recently adop,
ID by the state Legislature. MasSa
chuSst,S approves the act TO legaliz
he 1c7nufsCture and sale of beer an
,, wines Of 275 alcoholic content. WI,
consiu approves 2.5 per cent beer. Ne,
York approves a bonus for soldiers b
the issue of bonds not TO exceed s45
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