New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-11-12
c. O.P.v|CT0RY
IS An AVALANCHE
Sweeps Everything Before It in
North, East and West.
BREAKS INTO SOLID SOUTH
Harding Wins 4o4 Electoral Votes i n
81 States-carries Tennessee, Okla
homa, Arizona and New Mex
ico-Bio Gains in Congress.
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN.

~ WIN S'SN''NoSN hCh"NN.
Here is the story of the election
from an airplane:
Electoral yote-Harding. 44 In 81
states; Cox, l27 in IL states.
Senate-Republicans, 80; Democrats,
81; as against 40 Republicans and AZ
Democrats in Slxty-sixth congress-.
House-Republicans, 2S5; Demo
Gratis, 14S Independent Prohlbitionist,
/; Socialist. ! as against DO Repub-
leans, 1871 Democrats, . Independents,
l Prohibitionlst and | Socialist in Six
ty-siSth 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 j.
Ernst, Republican, is elected to the
senate over j. &. W. Beckham. For
the first time in history several coun-
ties in Alabama went Republican. and
several precincts in the sixth MlssiS
slppi district did the saIne almost I'M
belieyable thing. Harding carried st.
Petersburg, Orlando, Daytona and 9th
er towns In Florida nine counties in
,,at lnn, lN,,rrf. .,,l n .l.1np no righnG
in the sugar belt of Louisiana. The
q. o. l.. picked up II congressman in
Texas: Harry NJ. WurZback defeated
Carlos Bee, brotherln-law Of Postmus-
ter General Burleson.
Presldeut-elect Harding, whatever
else he does, Is going to take n rest.
He's already off on a real vacation of
Il 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.
it has a population of 100 whites and
100 Mexicans. There golf. bathing,
fishing and hunting are right at hand.
Col. +. f.. Scohey, now of san Antonio
and formerly sheriff of Marion county
Ohio, made him promise To Ga, win or
lose, the night he was nominated. X.
h, Creager, a san Antonio banker, who
seconded his nomination nj Chicago,
has turned over his cottage, Of course,
the poor man will be guarded by Sc
cret service operatives and pestered by
newspaper men and photographers
but he will have a 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 II fortnight AT
Point Isabel. He has been preaching
that the new American merchant ma
rine should pass free through the Pan
anna canal and he wants first-hand In
formation on conditions. Return Is
set for December q. He plans TO re-
sign his seat as senator January ~,
when Governor-elect Davis of Ohio will
be inaugurnted and Senator-elect Will
lis will be appointed Mr.. li%ardings
successor.
Alfred T.. Smith, Democratic Cover
nor of New York. earned II new title
in the election-"Miracle Man of Amer
lean Politics" Why, he almost re-
elected himself in the face of n Hard.
ing majority of more than a million.
The presidential vote was about this;
Harding, 1,S42222; Cox, 7s2,693. Tn"
gubernatorial vote was about this:
Miller. 1,3l9.,isG: Smith. 1%,2j6,3ll. Re
puhlicans aud Democrats alike say the
feat is unprecedented. al" rs every
body calls him, has come UP from an
orphan newsboy. Now he is spoken
Of as the logical candidate for the
presidency ia 1924.
By-products Of the election are many
and interesting. Harding skaters a
tradition that no sitting senator can be
elevated 10 the White House. Coolidge,
who violates every principle of poll
ties laid down by the practical poll
%ticians. wins his seventeenth success
siye candidacy.
Oklahoma elects Alice VI. Robertson
of Muskogee. Republican. aged sixty
six, to congress: she went to Indian
Territory 10y prairie schooner, has
taught In Indian schools most OF her
life. would let no soldier or sailor pay
In her cafeteria and is a heayen-born
cook. Harry 7. 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.
is elected county judge; he made his
campaign from his " Jail, where he
confined because of a fight over
politics last m
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.s5 alcoholic content. Wis
consin approves % per rent beer. New
York approves a bonus for soldiers by
the issue of bonds not to exceed $40
DO0.OJ0.
Aeog Over Inauguration.
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