The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-11-04
RESULT SECOND
TO THAT in 1912.
As Thus Far Estimated, Hard
ing to Get 404 EIec-
toraI Notes.
WILSON ROLLED UP 4a5
That Year of Republican
Schism Cox viii Have
but 1877 Votes.
10y GEORGE R. HoLMEsl

New York. Nov. Al. N. s)--The
unprecedented republican victory. grow
ing by leaps and bounds hourly since
the polls closed Tuesday night. reached
its maximum proportions today when
late returns dispeiied the doubt that
fingered over Tennessee and New Mex
leo and definitely placed these states in
the Harding Coolidge column
With only three counties In Tennes-
see missing, Senator Harding has a
lead OF some 10000 voteseover Gov.
Cox. Tnasmuch as the three counties
yet to be heard from went republican
four years ago, returns from these are
expected to merely increase the size Of
the Harding plurality. Thus is the re-
publican dream of half a century real
fzed. The solid south has been broken.
In New Mexico. with only two coun-
ties missing, Senator Harding has a
lead IN the returns today OF 5000. The
partial returns vet to come In from
the result. Along with Arizona. Mis-
souri and few other states which the
democrats did not give up until the
last moment, the addition Of New Mex
leo and Tennessee gives the ,republi-
cans a victory so gigantic that even.
to realize II.
To Have 4o4 Electoral Votes.
Senator Harding and Gov. Coolidge
will have 404 votes In the electoral coll
leye. Only once before in the history
OF the nation has this electoral vote.
been surpassed. That was In 1912. the
Nyear Of the republican schism. when
Woodrow Wilson rolled up 4S5 votes irf,
the college. Before that memorable
year, Theodore Roosevelt held the
honors. having received 3s6 votes In
1904, the year which republicans have
always pridefully pointed to as rerre-
senting the high water mark of polit-
ical endeavor and victory.
Harding and Coolidge carried
thirty six states, taking along with
them to triumph the governorshIps
cf twenty -slx states and numerous
senatorial and congressional candI-
dates. They overshadcwed some
Clark, IN Missouri and Senator
George chamberlain. In oregon.
Even lnroads IN Texas.
Even Texas elected one republican
Congressman and several Texas towns
gave Harding a plurality. although the
state. of course. is traditionally DEM
ocratic.
Cox and Roosevelt will have but 127
votes in the electoral college.
while. II probably will be some days
Ing and Coolidge viii be definitely
known, It appeared certain today that
II would be around 100000 votes at
conservative estimate.
The greatest plurality given Harding
was from New York, 1,0S0,000, and the
smallest probably from Arizona. New
Mexico or Nevada where the repub-
5000. Y '.s. n '- !. ! 4
jackson, Miss, Nov. 4.---As official |
returns reach the ofilce OF the secre-
tary OF tate.,jndicati6ns are that the
republican ticket will poll total OF 12,000 |
votes In Mississippi the. largest number |
ever recorded for that party In this |
state and three times the republican
VIII ~ Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 4.--The latest re- |
turns shows the republicans have carr
ricd fourteen counties in Georgia and |
there are eight more still in doubt. |
given CONGRESSMAN T. M. Bell close
race In the Ninth district. although
II now seems Bell has been reelected. |
Republican leaderssslaim 10000 votes
were polled by republicans In Georgia. |
Alabama.
Montgomery Ala, Nov 4.--The DEM |
oci-atic state and national ticket has |
won in Alabama. although with a con- |
siderable decrease In plurality. Re-.
publioans carried Chiffon and Shelby |
counties.
Phoenix, Afiz, Nov. 4.--Returns from |
al counties Of Arizona. with only |
Isolated precincts missing, gave plurali- |
ties for the republican candidates for
president, senator. and governor. Rep |
resenatlve Carl Hayden, democrat, ap- |
peared to have been re-elected by a |
margin of about 5000 votes.
With $1,000 votes tahulated, Senator |
Harding had lead of 6.311 over Gov. |
Cox in thes tate. while Ralph Cameron.
republican candidate for senator, led |
senator M. "A. Smith I'D by 6,0Q3. |
Representative Hayden's lead over |
J.ines r. Dunseath R) was S,67i;
votes ahead of Nit Simms, his demo-
cratic opponent.
Others HoIted Solid South.
Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 4.--Tennessee and
Louisiana were not the only states IN
the "solhi south" in which the repub-
leans made unexpected gains in the
from Flori.la show that senator Hard
ing carried a number of towns In that
state, including St Petersburg. Orlando
and Daytona. The returns from the
slowly and republican leaders predict
they viii show further gains. For the
first time In history several towns and
country precincts In the Sixth Missis-
sppi district gave republican maJori.
ties. the towns Including Seminary and
Runnels Some counties in Alabama |
heretofore strongly democratic also re-
turned republican majorities.
In two congressional districts In the
south, the Seventh Alabama, and Tenth |
North Carolina, the republican candi-
dates for congress have made charges |
OF fraud and threatened to contest the |
alection Of the democratic representa-.