The Washington herald., 1920-11-04
SLIGHT SHIFT
AMONG STATES
Harding Captures Tennes-
see, Leaving Only Eleven
In List for Cox.
BIG GAINS IN CONGRESS
New President to Have Suf-
hcient Support to Disre-
gard Opposition.

Belated returns only added 20 the
nations overwhelming repudl alton
OF the Democratic party. The break
ing Of the solid South by the cap
tUre Of Tennessee's electoral vote Tor
the first time since 1858 strikingly
accentuated the sweeping character
Of the Republican triumph and left
Gov. Cox with but eleven States-or
at the most lS-to his credit, all
South Of the Mason and Dixon line.
More important than the numeri-
cal extent OF Senator Harding's vic
tory was its magnetic effect in cleo
tiOn Tor Il, q, mate and .iu-s- Of
representatives. Republican con-
Jrol Of the next Congress is assured
by g far greater margin than the
first returns indicated.
Control in Congress.
To put into effect the policies TO
which they are pledged the RepUb-
ucans will have In the upper house
a majority OF at least twelve ana
POSSIBLY fifteen members and in the
rr-rr house a majority. estimates OF
which range from 70 TO more than
"A, ". %. p. CaIcfs believe
that these wide margins in both
houses reduce the widely expressed
fears OF insurgent activities in the
next session to negligible proper
lions. They expressed confidence
shat Harding will have behind him
sutiCient regular" support at all
times to be able TO disregard the
fractions elements OF tn party.
which. before election. had been eI-
-pseted to be unplessauly powerful
1uHhe SiNty-seventh Congress.
r'rrsidcnt-eIect Harding goes into
Office, according TO the latest re-
,.rns taUuIaJcd tonight. with the
entirely unparalleled majority es-
timateu al more than C.O0U.UCO. He
is the choice OF thirty-siN States. in
many of them by pluralitics never
approached in American history.
Seventeen ~ these States voted fOr
Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
Previous Record 500 600.
Until this election a plurality OF
zoo, 600 votes had been the highest
ever obt0iaed in any one state
Senator ~dinE surpassed this flg-
ure in lnsylvanla, Illinois and
New y obtaining in the last
named sla6 bSl lHE HlayoiiNs "a
l,2lo,OOt votes.
The West, which had been the
only hope OF Democratic leaders not
blinded by optimism, was as EN-
hattie in its rejection OF Gov. Cox
the concedcdly Republican East.
OF a shred OF the territory cap
Ired by Wilson in 1916 remained
. the Democratic column
, In New York State il claims to
have poIled more than 100000 votes
and probably played a vital part
in the defeat OF Gov. Alfred L. Smith
for reelection. Somewhat more
than half Of these votes would have
been sufficient to insure triumph for
Smith. who even in defeat, has won
what many political observers de-
clare to be the greatest personal vic
tory in the history Of American poll
tics. running nearly a million votes
ahead Of his ticket.
solid south Hard Hit.
Not alone did Tennessee swing
into the C. o. P. ranks but the Re
publican vote in such rock ribbed
Democratic States as Louisiana and
Kentucky reached astonishing pro-
portions.
Republican Senators reelected in
Cludc BrandeRee. Connecticut. Wat
son, Indiana. Cummius, Iowa: Cur
tiS Kansas Spencer, MISSOURI
Moses New Hampshire: Wadsworth.
New York. penrose, Pennsylvania;
Smoot. Utah. Dillingham;. Vermont
Jones. Washington. and Lenroct,
Wisconsin.
Among the new Senators on the
Republican side will b. ShOrtgidE".
California: Nicholson, Colorado;
GoodinE. Idaho. Mckinley, Illinois
L.add. North Dakota, Willys, Ohio.
and Norbeck. South Dakota
Reelected Democrats.
The Senate will include again
such well known Democratic figures
as Underwood. Alabama, Fletcher,
Florida: Overman, North Carolina:
Glass. Virginia: Smith, South CARO-
lima, and BcCkham, Kentucky.
But without the prestige OF
Democratic administration behind
them the Dixie Legislators will no
longer have the center Of the stage.
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