Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-11-10
C. D. P. VICTORY
IS AN AVALANCHE
Sweeps Everything Before ~
North, East and West.
BREAKS INTO SOLID SOUTH
rardin9 Wins 4o4 Electoral Votes in
, 81 Subsidiaries Tennessee, Okla
homa, Arizona and New Mex
ico-5ig Gains in Congress.
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.

Sy JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.
Here is the story of the election
from an airplane:
Electoral vOte-Harding, 404 in 81
states; Cox, l27 in IL states.
Senatc-Rcpublicans, 50; Democrats,
81; as against 40 Republicans and AZ
Democrats in Sixty-sixth congress.
use-Republicans, 2S5; Demo
crats, las; Independent Prohibitionist,
/; Socialist, 1; as against 240 Repub-
licans, 19l Democrats, 2 Independents,
! PrOhibitiOnist and ! Socialist in Six
ty-sixth congress.
in comment, the household word
avalanche seems the handiesr. The
Republican avalanche began at the
Canadian border, from Maine to Wash
inston, and swept the country clean
clear 20 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 J. G. w. Beckham. For
the first time in history several cOun-
ties in Alabama went Republican, and
several precincts in the sixth MiSsis- |
slppi district did the same almost un-
believable thing. Harding carried st.
Petersburg Orlando, Daytona and 9TH !
or towns in Florida; nine counties in
northern Georgia and Il dozen parishes |
in the sugar belt OF Louisiana. The
q. o. L. picked up congressman in !!
Texas Harry NJ Wurzback defeated
Carlos Bee, br0ther-in-law Of Postmas-
rcr General Burieson. 's." g.
president-elect Harding. whatever
else he does, is going TO take a rest.
He's already Off on real vacation Of 4
a month. His immediate destination
is Point Isabel, Tex, via San Antonio
and Brownsville. Point Isabel Is on
the Calf, 20 miles from Brownsville
and six miles from the Mexican line.
il has "A population of 100 whites and
$50 MexlcanS There golf, bathing,
fishing and hunting are right at hand.
Coi. +. Il. 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. IL.
Il. Creager, q San Antonio banker who
seconded his nomination ut Chicago,
has turned over his cottage. OF course,
lhe poor man will he guarded by Sc
cret service operatives and pcstered ny
newspaper men and photographers,
hut he vii! have goodiy company OF
golf buddies and other intimate friends
along. And politics and visitors VIII !
be barred.
Mr.. Harding is planning to go TO
the Canal Zone, after n fortnight at
Point Isabel. He has been preaching
that the new American merchant ma
rJne should pass free through the Pan
anna canal and he wants first-hand In
formation on conditions. Return is
set for December 6. He plans to re-
sign his seat us senator January lO,
when Goveinor-elect Davis of Ohio viii
he inaugurated and Scnator-elect Will
lis will be appointed Mr.. Harding's
successor.
Alfred II. Smith, Democratic COVER
nor of New York, earned a new title
N the cleetion-"Miracle Man of Amer
ican Politics" Why, he almost re-
elected himself in the face of a Hard
ing ma aiOrlty OF more than a million.
The presidential vote was about this:
Harding, 1,S42,"22; Cox, TS2,693. The
gubernatOrial vote was about this:
Miller, I,Il05SG; Smith, 1,256,311. Re
publicanS and Democrats alike say the
feat is unprecedented. al" as every.
body calls hlul, has come up from an
GrrhoR ucwSboye Now he Is spoken
Of rs tie logical candidate for the
presidency in 1924,
Py-pToducts of the election are many
grd interesting Harding skaters
tradition lhat 80 sitting scnator can be
elevated 20 The White House. Coolidge,
who Violates every principle of poll
ties laid down by the practical poll
ticlans, wins his seventeenth success
siYe candidacys
Oklahoma elects Alice NJ. Robertson
OF MusEogee, Republican, aged sixty
six, TO congress; she went 10 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. Harry Il. Burn, Republican
member of the Tennessee legislature
who cast the deciding vote for the suf-
frage amendment ratification. Is re-
elected by plurality of about 100,
nfter bitter fight. Jailer Festus
whitaker of Letcher county, Kentucky,
is elected county Judge; he made his