The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-03
FERRIS ELECTION
IS NOT GIN CHED
BY LATE RETURNS
Reports From All Sections
of Oklah o IN a Indicate
That Harreld Is Close in
Behind Man From Law
ton for the Senate.

At the hour of going to press, there
remains doubt of the ultimate re-
suit in the ferns-tlarreld contest
for the rnited States senate.
Rather, at 2:30 o'clock, when the
state wire closed down, there was still
g degree of uncertainty which made
The safety Of Ferris an extremely
inoo,ed question
A. that hour 1853 precincts out of
total Of 2,GSj precincts in the state
/ gave Ferris 99,099, Harreld 96.I42.
Ferris lead over Harreld at that
i3bulauon 1851
! Oklahoma City, Nov. 3.--WJh wea-
ther conditions ideal, Oklahoma today
turned out the biggest vote in her
political history. The women voted
On masse all over the state In the
wards of the larger cities. in the
smaller towns and villages, at the
country crossroads polling places, the
wives. the mothers. the sisters. the
sweethearts OF Oklahoma men. raj
| lied 10 the polls and exercised their
| newly acquired prerogatives.
/ And, The general result seems to
/ indicate that these women. unlike
their male compatriols, knew all about
using the pencil and used it rather
extensively in some sections, espec-
/ tally in county affairs
Returns from over 1000 precincts
representing practically every section
OF the state. the outcome OF the
presidential and United states sena-
torial contests in Oklahoma assumed
an indefinite aspect
! These returns from approximately
"A per cent OF the 1855 voting pre-
cincts i'm the state gave Cox lead
OF 3,4Sj over Harding. The vote
in these precincts gave Cox 90G6l,
| Harding S7.176.
The 1874 precincts from 81 coun-
ties Of the - in the state gave Fer
ris, democrat for United States SEN
ator, 99099, Harreld, republican, 90
lt2, or a plurality Of 1851 for Ferris.
These returns tend to sustain earlier
indications that the Two major con-
tests will be the closest in Okla
/ homa's history.
| While the returns so far in do not
include many of the strong demo-
cratic counties in the southern part
OF the state it is also true that prac-
tcally all of the counties embraced
in the eighth congressional district
and in the northwestern part Of
| the state, which in the past had been
overwhelmingly republican, have not
as yet reported.
In the first congressional district,
that in which has centered what was
perhaps the hardest fought congress
sional contest in the state, the re-
suit also grew uncertain on the face
Of late returns. Sixty OF the 364
precincts in that district. including 10
precincts in the city OF Tulsa, gave
/ Howard democrat. 3.739. Chandler,
republican. 4,4S4. These returns do
not include any precincts in Craig
county, Chambers home.
Oklahoma City, Nov. 2.-J. Elmer
Thomas. Democrat, of Lawton has
q lead of l,S27 votes over Gensman.
his Republican opponent. incomplete
returns from 80 of the 30l precincts
in the sixth congressional district.
These precincts give Thomas 1866;
Gcnsman 3,O79 These returns in
clude 10 precincts in Comanche.
Thomas home county which gave
Montgomery 746 to 62O for Thomas.
In the second congressional district.
REPRESENTATIVE W. W. Hastings has
y lead of 4l0 votes over Miss Alice
Robertson, Republican. in returns
from - of the 94G precincts in this