Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-04

NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-Th~ rcone
OF the Republican victory thar .w.nt
the nation yesterday continued to
grow as the returns were COMPLIED
today.
Inc returns showed that:
senator Harding has been elected
president by the greatest popula,.
vote ever amassed in the history NJ
american politics, and the largest
electoral vote ever rolled I'D ,bv :,
Republican candidate.
Republicans have strengthened
their grip on the senate and will have
working majority of from twelve
to sixteen seats.
They will have a top-heavv ma
jority of approximately 100 votes in
the house,
Republican governors were seated
IN every state except those of the
solid south.
Senator Harding's electoral vote
had reached 372, with indications that
1t might go to the 400 mark.
His popular plurality seemed like
~ 10 exceed b,0OU,OUU.
The unofficial results presaged q
larger majority in the electoral col
lege for Senator Harding and his
running mate, Governor Coolidge, Of
Massachusetts,, than any since 1888
except alone the vote Of 435 for
President in 1912 during the Re
publican split"
G. o. p. Gains in Congress
The republican congressional
swing was as strong, increased ma
jorities in both senate and house be-
ing marked UP. Early today victory
for virtually all fifteen Republican
senators for reelection was spelled
by the returns, while about a half
dozen of the nineteen Democratic
candidates were battling against Re-
publican leads.
The first trial Of woman suffrage
contributed largely to the Republican
maJorities and, also, was a factor
in delaying the count in many states.
The millions of women's ballots also
swelled the popular vote recorded be-
yond all records.
Senator Harding accepted his VIC
tory without exultation, stating that
he was more given to prayer TO
God to make me capable Of playing
my part" To Governor Coolidge
the next vice president, he sent a.
message stating:
We've got a rear job and we'll
tackle it together"
Governor Cox also received his de-
feat without untoward show of feel
ing. He withheld any comment, aft
flee at Dayton, Ohio, until almost
midnight and seeing his own paper
issue an early extra edition recount
ing his defeat.
Senator Harding, Governor Cool
idge, Will H. Hays, chairman of the
Republican national committee, and
other Republican leaders exchanged
tor Harding commended Mr.. Hays
upon the successful management Of
great campaign" and also told Gov
ernor Coolidge that he would expect
him to play full part in the COM
ing Republican administration"
League Dead, Says Borah
The League of Nations issue was
stressed by Senator Borah, of Idaho.
prominent among the leagues foes
in a statement declaring that he re.
garded the election as 1.-The triumph
for nationalism and the death of the
League of Nations"
None of the minor parties. the SO.
cialist, the Farmer-Labor,. nor Pro.
hibition, figured in the presidential
results. Socialist headquarters al
Chicago claimed an increased vote
and the party reelected three New
York Socialist assemblymen who haC
been expelled. The first woman So
cialist ever elected to the New Yorl'
assembly Marion H. Lang, also was
successful.
Eugene Debs, the Socialist pres1-
Dental candidate, reo<.'@:S
turns in the Atlanta penitentiary.
ley P. Christensen, of Salt Lake City,
had not been located at an early hour
today.
Senator Harding, with the receipt
Of the ballot tidings-on his fifty
fifth irthday-announced plans for
vacation, beginning next Friday. He
will spend several days near Browns.
canal zone. Governor Cox also is
planning a vacation on a hunting
trip in Mississippi.
Ohio-the home Of both Senator
Harding and Governor Cox-New
York, Illinois and Pennsylvania fur
nished the largest Republican plural
tiles. That of New York, where Gov
ernor Smith, Democrat, and Nathan
L. Miller. Republican, were neck-and-
neck in the gubernatorial fight, was
close to the million mark; Ohio was
around 10000; Illinois. at the pres
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