The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-11-12
c. O.P. VICTORY
IS AN AVALANCHE
Sweeps Everything Before 1t in
North, East and West.
BREAKS INTO SOLID SOUTH
Harding Wins 404 Electoral Votes in
81 Subsidiaries Tennessee, Okla
homa, Arizona and New Mex
ico-Big Gains in Congress.
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.

BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.
Here is the story Of the election
from an airplane:
Electoral Matchmaking, 4O4 in 81
states; Cox, 127 in II states.
Senate-Republicans, 50; Democrats,
81; rs against 40 Republicans and AT
Democrats in Sixty-sixth congress-.
House-Republicans, 2S5; Demo
Gratis, 14S Independent ProhibitiOnist,
i; Socialist, / as against 240 Repub-
]icans, 191 Democrats, 2 Independents,
i Prohibiti0nist and / Socialist in Six
ty-siXth congress.
In comment, the household word
avalanche seems the handiest. The
Republican avalanche began at the
Canadian border, from Maine to Wash
ingt0n, 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 J.
Ernst, Republican, is elected to the
eNhhtN ONti - ~. w itNhiidiis WI
The first time in history several u
ties i'm Alabama went Republican, and
several precincts in the sixth Missis-
Sippi district did the same almost UNI
beiievable thing. Harding carried st.
Petersburg, Orlando, Daytona and 9TH
er towns in Florida nine counties in
northern Georgia and a dozen parishes
in the sugar belt of Louisiana. The
q. q. Il. picked up d congressman in
Texas; Harry M. WurZback defeated
Carlos Bee, brother-in-law of POstmas-
ter General Burleson.
P~resident-elect Harding, whatever
else he does, Is going to take Il rest.
He's already off Oh Il real vacation of
a 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 Il population Of 100 whites and
$50 Mexicane. There golf, bathing,
fishing and Hunting are right at handA
Col. Il. Il, Scobey, now of San Antonio
hiIl NlOtIlCltJ ChtlllA VI NOhh'f
Ohio, made him promise to go, win or
lose, the night he was nominated. II.
Il. Creager, a San Antonio banker, who
seconded his nomination at Chicago,
has turned over his cottage. OF course,
the poor man will be guarded by Sc
cret service operatives and pestered by
men and photographers,
but he will have n goodly company of
golf buddies and other intimate friends
along. And politics and visitors will
be barred.
Mr.. Harding Is planning to go to
the Canal Zone, after a fortnight ut
Point Isabel. He has been preaching
that the new American merchant ma
rine should pass free through the Pan
anna canal and he wants f~rst-hand In
formation on conditions. Return Is
set for December g.. He plans to re-
sign his seat as senator January 10,
when GOvernor-elect Davis Of Ohio will
be inaugurated and SeQator-elect VIII
lis will be appointed MIR. Harding's
successor.
Alfred Il. Smith, Democratic COVER
nor of New York, earned a new title
In the election-"Miracle Man of AMER
lean Politics." Why. he almost re-
elected himself In the face of a Hard
Ing majority of more than a million.
The presidential vote was about this:
Harding, 1,842,222; Cox, 7S2,693. The
gubernatorial vote was about this:
Miller, 1,319,5S6; Smith, 1,256,311. Re
publicans and Democrats alike say the
feat is unprecedented. GAL" 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 a
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 M. 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 a heaven-born
cook. Harry 4. Burn, Republican
member of the Tennessee legislature
who cast the deciding vote for the suf-
frage amendment ratification, is re-
elected by a plurality Of about 100,
after a bitter fight. Jailer Festus
Whitaker of Letcher county. Kentucky,
ls elected county Judge; he made his
campaign from his own jail, where he
was confined because of a fight over
politics last summer
California overwhelmingly Endorses
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
cousin approves 2.5 per cent beer. New
York approves a bonus for soldiers by
the issue Of bonds not to exceed $45.-
100000.