The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-03

Governor Cox, who was in his news- paper office when the concession of Sen ator Harding was published said he would issue no statement Senator Hard-
 ing. at his home in Marion, said he was more given to prayer to God to make me capable of playing my part than ne was to exultaton.
 AL u:lo o'clock, eastern time, with tho west and middle west still scarcely heard from, the Harding landslide in the east was continuing with gathering nomen- tum.
 At the rate the Harding column was growing at that hour the republican plurality in the state of New York wou,d be around the unprecedented figure ol fnere than a mtnlpn New Yors cft. inpmAlk democratic, vas goiug tt' aarding by al least half a million. 1 The gorenorship fight continued cless 1 with republican managers claiming t;.- defeat of Governor smith.
 Pennsylvania returns at that houe showed Harding leading Cox to l ana Senator Penrose reelected. ! GREATEST PLURALITY 1 Massachusetts was promising Harding the greatest plurality ever given presi- dental candidate in that state Boston had gone for republican for the second time in it's history. and had given Hard- i ing q greater lead over Cox than it gave . Mckinley over Bryan in 1896. ] Returns from half of Vermont gave | Harding to 1 lead over Cox. Hughes 1 beat N ilson to 1 there in l916. In the home district of Charles r.
 Murphy. leader of Tammany Hall. Hard- li Ing beat Cox to l. Maine reported iAardng leading Cox by the largest 9R-rality ever given a presidential cand-
 ne
 isi.io. one-ffth complete. showed
 aing vote for Harding.
 .trtins carried two wards in the city
 Atlanta. Ga. and TWO parishes in the
 luisiana sugar belt. both democratic 2 .evritories.
 4 lu the New York senatorial race Sena- toi wadsworth was leading his demo- cratic opponent, Lieutenant/ Governor Walker.
 i Senators Brandegee of Connecticut and Moses of New Hampshire. opponents of the League of Nations both seemed cer- tain of reelection.
 i When Governor Cox and Chairman White made their concession such res
 turns as were coming in from the vest ern states showed q strong drift to Hard- ing, and the republican landshile. which began to take on tremendous proportions throughout the east, was continuing to roll on with seemingly never ending mo mentum.
 FEW CHANGES SHOWN At the hour the democratic conces-
 sion of republican victory was made
 there were practically no returns in 1 to show the trend of voting on Con- 1 gress., The few returns at hand 1 showed few changes and these wera ! in favor of the republican side ] Taking the republican landslide in 1 the east as handwriting on the wall. 1 metropolitan newspapers. among them l those which staunchly had supported | Governor Cox and the League of Ma | tons issue, conceded the election ot
 liarding early in the evening. There ! were then no figures to assure it or 1 to. give assurance that the sudden | tlhning about of four years ago which ] changed apparent victory for Hughes | into election for Wilson would not l be repeated. Democratic managers l early in the night professed confidence | that the votes from the west would l overcome the sentiment of the east, while the republican managers contin- ued to issue predictions of victory. 1 As the landslide in the east contin- | ued to roll down, however, and the first indications came that 1t would | extend westward. there evidently was some hurried communication from Gov l ernor Cox at Dayton and the demo- cratic managers in New York for their 1 announcements eoneedng the election of Harding came out in Dayton and
 in New York at virtually the sama
 time
 At the same moment he conceded ths election of Harding Chairman Whtts !! also conceded the election of re' publican Congress.
 one striking feature of the situation In fact an almost anomalous one-was l that while the election of Senatot Harding was being conceded thers | were actually not sufficient election ! returns on hand to compile tabls | of electoral votes showing the dstribu- ton of states votes in the electoral college.
 Senator Harding's election came on
 his fifty fifth birthday anniversary.
 G. o. P. MAKES CLEAN
 SWEEP IN NEW YORK | New York. November 2.--With the pos- sible exception of the contest for the fgovernorship, which still is in doubt. re.