The Ordway new era., 1920-11-12
SOLID SOUTH is
BROKEN BY COP.
Harding Wins 404 Electoral
Votes in 81 States; Cox
127 in II States.
VICTORY IS LIKE AVALANCHE
Sweeps North, East and West Clean
and Breaks over Mason and
Dixon's line-Biq Gains in
Senate and House.
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.


The G. o. p. has broken into the
solid South. Here's the election story:
Harding wins 404 electoral votes in
81 states; Cox 12T in IL states.
Republicans in senate, 80; Demo
Gratis, 81; as against 40 and AZ respec-
lively in Slxty-siNth congress.
Republicans in house, 2s5; Demo
Gratis, 14S; as against $40 and 191
respectively in Sixty-sixth congress.
In comment, the household word
avalanche seems the handiest. The
Republican avalanche began at the
Canadian border, from Maine to Wash
ington, and swept the country clean
clear to Mason and Dixon's line and
broke the Solid South.
The Republican avalanche swept
Tennessee, Oklahoma, New Mexico
and Arizona. In Kentucky Richard ].
Ernst. Republican. is elected TO the
senate over j. C. w. Beckham. For
the first time in history several coun
ties in Alabama went Republican. and
several precincts in the sixth MIssis-
sipp1 district did the Game almost un-
believable thing. Harding carried st.
Petersburg, Orlando, Daytona and 9th
! er towns in Florida; nine counties in
northern Georgia and dozen parishes
in the sugar belt of Louisiana. The
G. o. p. picked up a congressman in
Texas; Harry NJ wurzback defeated
Carlos Bee. brother-in-law OF POstmas-
ter General Burleson.
| President-elect Harding, whatever
else he does, is going to take rest.
He's already off on real vacation of
month. His immediate destination
is Point Isabel. Tex. via San Antonio
and Brownsville. Point Isabel is on
the Gulf, 20 miles from brownsville
and six miles from the Mexican line.
| 1t has population Of 100 whites and
$50 Mexicans. There golf, bathing
fishing and hunting are right at hand.
Col f. 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.
B. Creager. a San Antonio banker, VINO
seconded his nomination at chicago,
has turned over his cottage. or course,
the poor man will be guarded by Sc
rrct service operatives and pestered py
newspaper men and photographers.
hut he will have n goodly company OF
golf buddies and other intimate friends
along. And politics and visitors VIII
be barred.
Mr.. Harding is planning to 20 to
the Canal Zone. after fortnight at
Point Isabel. He has been preaching
that the new American merchant ma
rine should pass free through the Pan
ANA canal and he wants first-hand In
formation on conditions. Return is
set for December g. He plans TO re
sign his seat as senator January io.
when Governor-elect Davis of Ohio VIII
be inaugurated and Senator-elect Will
lis will be appointed Mr.. Harding's
successor.
alfred F. Smith. Democratic COVER
nor .f New York, earned Il new title
In the election-"Miraole Man of Amer
fcon Politics" Why, he almost re-
elected himself in the face of Hard
Ing majority of more than million.
The presidential vote was about this:
Harding 1872 .222: Cox, 7S2.693. The
gubernatorial vote was about this;
Miller, 1.319,5S6; Smith, 1,256,3ll. Re
publicans and Democrats alike say ih"
feat is unprecedented. AL" as every
body calls him. has come up from an
orphan newsboy Now he is spoken
of as the logical candidate for the
presidency in 1924.
By-products of the election are many
and interesting. Harding skaters
tradition that no sitting senator can be
elevated to the White House. Coolidge.
who violates every principle of poll
tics laid down by the practical poll
ticians. wins his seventeenth success
sive candidacy.
Oklahoma elects Alice NJ. Robertson
of Muskogee, Republican. aged sixty
| six. to congress; she went TO 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 heaven-born
| cook.
California overwhelmingly indorses
the anti-alien land law recently adopt
ed by the state legislature. Massa-
chusetts approves the act to legalize
the manufacture and sale of beer and
wines of 2.75 alcoholic content. Wis
consin approves 2.5 per cent beer. New
York approves bonus for soldiers by
the issue of bonds not TO exceed s45.-
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