Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-11-03
HARDING TO
LOSE ONLY
THE SOUTH
BY The Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3-The Repub-
lican landslide continued to roll
along in greater proportions today as
latest election returns came in from
the west.
Beside electing Harding. It was
assured the Republicans would in
crease their strength in both houses
of congress and the senate.
Congressional returns from many
states were slow as were the returns
on the vote for president, but on the
basis of actual returns and indica-
tions from practical returns coming
in, it seemed that Harding would at
least get $50 votes in the electoral
college with a probability of more
than $50, while all that could be
counted for Cox is 127 votes from the
solid south.
Unless some big changes were to
appear it seems that the returns will
make good the Republican predic-
tions that Cox would not carry a
western or northern state.
The election in many respects was
very unusual. 1t may turn out to be
| the greatest Republican victory OF
party history. Both the Democratic
candidate and his team managers
ueltdt De1OIe re-
| turns actually were in to show 1t In
| figures. With the election went
what President Wilson characterized
as a solid referendum" on the Lea
que of Nations issue, and 1t may be
said that the electorate regarded
their vote as an expression on that
question. They registered their pref
erence for Harding who favored
staying out of the league.
Tennessee, Missouri. West Virginia
and Maryland, the so-called border
states, went Republican and Okla
homa is close on the latest returns.
/, The new woman vote upon which
the democratic candidate and cam
paign management placed so much
reliance went Republican.
Every state in the union pnfslue O.
the solid south elected a<RepublicaE
governor.
The attitude on the League OF Ma
tions of the Democratic senator's who
went down to defeat did not appear
to influence the voters as some were
| pro-League and some were against
| it.
The vote in several southern
states showed surprising Republican
gains, and Tennessee appears in the
Republican column for the first time
since 1S6SS.
The above paragraphs present the
Republican sweep in concentrated
form. Gov. Cox led his party to the
most complete defeat in history.
| Out of the dense cloud of Demo-
cratic gloom overhanging the coun-
try CLEANS one ray of light. That
emanates from the showing of Gov.
Alfred E. Smith.
He emerges from the cataclysm
with honor. On the face of the re-
turns thus far received he has a
chance of reelection, although he
will be beaten by $4,000 or more If
the percentage of Miller advantage
up State holds as the outlying dis
trlcts report. These are all strongly
| Republican.
| Republican control of congress for
another two years with an increased
house majority and a prospective in
crease in the senate was a major part
of the election sweep.
| A net gain of twenty votes in the
house was shown with complete re-
| turns from all seventeen states.
Eight of the fifteen Republican
senatorial candidates have come in
as winners today. Several others were
reported in the van.
For the ninteen Democratic
states, nine of the minority parties
have been returned winners, all from
southern state-while in the border
and western states, the others were
fighting an uphill fight except Sena-
tor Smith, of Delaware. the only
Democratic representative in that
section elected.
The following table shows how
the electoral college vote stands: