The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-09
WATSON
WINS FOR
SENATOR
Nominated in Georgia Where
He Ran as Opponent to
Policies OF
Wilson.
LEGION AGAINST HIM
Lenroot Continues to Gain Over
Thompson in Wisconsin Where
Esch Has Been De-
LEGION AGAINST HIM

tTUnited Press Leased Wire Service.l
! ATLANTA, Ga, Sept 9.-Thomas
E. Watson, former congressman and
former candidate for president on the
populist ticket, has been nominated
United States senator, according to
fairly complete returns early today.
l The campaign was fought largely
Ion support or condemnation OF the
national administration, Watson being
! a bitter opponent of several admins
tration policies.
A feature of the campaign was the
lactive fight agaisz. Watson by abe
American Tsegi0a-
Decisive Victory.
RENO, New, Sept. 9.-With only
far removed precincts, where the
vote was small, not heard from, me
victory Of Tasker l.. Oddie, over Rev.
Brewster Adams, for the republican
nomination for United States senator
in Tuesdays Nevada primary, was
considered today as decisive.
| Charles B. Henderson. incumbent,
was without opposition for the demo
cratic senatorial nomination.
! The primary vote was light Ma
tional issues did not figure in the
campaign to any extent.
| Nit Sims Wins.
! PHOENIX, Ariz:, Sept. 9.-Head-
quarters for A. Mulford Wlnsor to-
day conceded Nit Sims, Winsor's
opponent, for the democratic noml.
nation for governor although the re-
turns on Tuesdays primary were not
vet complete. United States Senator
Marcus A. Smith was leading K. Z.
Stanford and A. A. Worsley for DEM
ocratic nomination for United States
senate by about 5000 and considered
his selection assured.
There were no contests on the re-
publican ticket
i Lenroot Gaining.
Mi, u,WAUKEE, Wis, Sept. 9.-Sen-
ator Irvine L. Lenroot today had IN
creased his lead over James Thomp-
son for the republican nomination for
United States senator on returns
Tuesdays primary.
These returns gave Lenroot 49,
414. Thompson, 114,l9S.
CONGRESSMAN Esch, co-author Of the
railroad BILL has been defeated, re-
Democratic voting was light and
without contests.
Attorney General John ]. Blaine.
candidate for the republican nomi-
nation for governor, was leading Roy
If. Wilcox by about one thousand
Votes.
League is Condemned
WASHINGTON, September 9.-In
the first test vote in the country on
the league of nations, the Wilson CO
venant has been emphatically con-
demned. /
The republicans of New Hampshire
have renominated Senator George H.
Moses, an "irreconcilable" who voted
consistently against the covenant,
either with or without reservations.
He won by the remarkable majority
of 1900 in total vote of $4,000 over
Huntley l.. Spaulding, former Hoov-
er aid, who advocated the league with
the Lodge reservations
What makes the test the more sig
nificant is that Moses won by so large
n majority, despite the concerted eff
forts of the newly enfranchised women
voters to defeat him because of his
opposition to equal suffrage.
The result is a severe blow to dem
ocratic hopes New Hampshire is the
only eastern state President Wilson
carried in 1916 He won the state
by a plurality of fifty-six, as the result
of dissension among the republicans.
The defeat of Moses would have given
the democrats reason to believe that
New Hampshire might easily be car
ried by Governor Cox on the league of
nations issue alone. The outcome, to
the disappointment of the democratic
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