Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-11-03
Big Majority for Harding.

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Big Majority for Harding.
Incomplete returns, at the hour OF
going to press indicated that Hard
ing has won not less than $40 OF
the 53l votes in the electoral college
and that complete returns may give
him 800 or more. His electoral
college majority is not less than III
and may be as high as l89 or more,
compared with Roosevelts majority
over Parker in 1904.
So overwhelming was the repub-
lican victory. apparently, that it IS
not certain Cox carried any states
outside of the democratic stronghold
in the south. The early returns gave
reason to believe that Cox may even
have lost all of the border states
with the possible exception of Ken
lucky, where the contest appeared
to have been extremely close.
Cox Showed Under.
In the northern states, from the
| Atlantic to the Pacific, Cox and
| Roosevelt were showed under. The
receipt of returns throughout the
night constituted review of solidly
republican states in the east, in New
England, in the middiewest, i'll the
! far west By 8 o'clock it was ap-
parent that Governor Cox. backed
by President Wilson, is one OF the
most disastrously defeated candi-
dates for the presidency since the
birth of the republic. The hopes of
democratic managers that Governor
Cox would repeat the feat of Wilson
in winning with Ohio and the far
west i'll 1916 and that Cox would be
| saved by the women vote on the
league of nations issue, wc:it glim-
mering early in the evening.
AS for the women it is as clearly
indicated that they voted overwhelm-
ingly against the Wilson league OF
nations. if, as was believed by the
democratic managers, this issue was
uppermost in their minds. 1t looks as
! if the women voted as strongly, il
not more strongly in favor of Hard.
ing than did the men.
Ohio for Harding.
Ohio, the mother of presidents
making a choice between her two
favorite sons, hands the palm tc
Harding. The incomplete returns
from Ohio show Harding beating
Cox two to one in territory which
Wilson carried overwhelmingly ovei
Hughes in 1916. Thirty precincts oui
Of 745 in Cleveland, for example
gave Harding 5,255 and Cox 1921
The same precincts in 1916 gave
Wilson 1859 and Hughes ISIS
Scattering returns from other Ohio
cities were in line with this enormou.
lead for Harding. The indications
were that Harding had carried every
ward i'll Cleveland, and the state by
100000 or more.
The Harding lead in New York
City early assumed landslide pro
portions. The figures showed Hard
ing beating Cox consistently two te
one upstate. and it looked as if tn,
republican ticket would come dowr
to the Bronx with close to 100000
plurality. Even in the democratic,
stronghold of New York City, Hard.
ing was making an amazing showing
On the basis of the incomplete re,
turns, the republican manager.
figured that Harding would carr,
Manhattan by $1,000. They sa,
Harding carried Buffalo more tIai
to |, receiving 72.753 votes to 81,
4S6 for Cox. Harding also carriet
Syracuse and number OF other up
state, cities We'd with the farming,
districts in delivering enormous
pluralities.
Landslide in Bay State.
! Massachusetts, gave another tire
mcndous push to the republican ava
lanchc III the east. Harding moppc,
CoN up at 4 to ! ratio outside q
Boston and even in the Massachu
setts capital, led Cox at rate which
indicate the republican ticket wout
carry the city by $4,000 or more. Tn
republicans have not carried Bostot
since 1896. Governor Coolidge es
timated that the complete return
would show Massachusetts, in tin
Harding column by margin of 400.
600, compared with the Hughe
plurality of 10000 four years age
The Bay state furnished the banne
example of the Irish element, bolt
ing the democratic ticket on accoun
of opposition to the Wilson leagu
OF nations. The democratic party il
this state 800 per cent Irish and tn
Irish detection left the party com
pletely disrupted.
Hughes Figure Dwarfed.
Connecticut pumped for Hardin
10 degree that sstonishcd even tn
most optimistic republican Hughc,
1000 plurality Is dwarfcd out
sight by the Harding lead over Coz
(which appears to have swept-Senstc