Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-11-03
STATE IS LOYAL
TO DEMOCRACY BY
65,0OOMAJOR|TY
Old Dominion Stands Like
Stone Wall for Party
Principles.
NINE CONGRESSMEN ARE
NAMED BY DEMOCRATS
EARLY Returns Indicate Sweep
ing Victory for Constitu-
tional Amendments.
sLEAIr WINS OVER HANDY
Ninth District Goes Republican b,
5000 Majority, Returning
Incumbent.

Virginia Endorsed the leaSne Of ma
10 Democracy In the election OF yAs-
terdny by giving Cox and Roosevelt
majority estimated early this
morning on incomplete returns at
approximately $4,000. Nine of the
ten congressional districts returned
Democrats to the House OF Repre-
sentatives. the Ninth District alone
remaining joined TO it's Republican
idol. Representative Slemp. Carter
Glass was reelected to the United
States Senate over his .Iily-biack"
opponent. j. r. Pollard. hy ma
jority OF probably 100000.
Although the Republican vote is
largely Increased over that OF any
preceding election, it is evident from
tho returns that n large majority OF
the new voters remained true TO the
faith OF their forcfathers, and made
Virginia a more certainly Democratic
state than before.
Republicans Gain In Cities.
The Republican gains appear main
~ in returns from the larger cities.
and are presumably responsive to
the national drift To that party in
yesterdays election. In the rural
sections the new electorate served to
Increase the Democratic majoritIcs
1t is further to be noted that the
drift TO the Republican side seems
10 have been confined to Harding and
Coolidge, and did not extend to the
nominees of that party for Congress
An example is shown in tho Third
or Richmond District. where Con-
gressman Montague ran far ahead Of
Governor Cox, and has probably a
), lead OF 10000 votes over the next
highest candidate, who may he either
DeCourcy, the independent Farmer
Laborite. or Price, the lilly black"
Grubbs, the independent Republican,
finished fourth and the Socialist
Muller last.
Deal Wins I'm Second.
The came significant fact appears
in the returns from the Second Dis
trict. where State Senator Joseph T.
Deal. IN spite of the attacks made
upon him by the Anti-Saloon League
oil America through it's general coun-
sci. wayne B. Wheeler, Is elected to
Congress over his Republican oppon-
cnt. DR.. Landlord, by about 5000 ma
5ority. Senator Deal apparently poll
ed more votes than Cox in the Second
Distr'Gt in spite of the bitter fight
fwaged upon him.
3 In tho Seventh District IL appears
that Senator John Paul, Of Rocking
= nam, Republican, succeeded in effect
ing considerable reduction in TIM
usual majority of Congressman
Thomas w. Harrison, which NAV be
ms small as 1000 votes. Senator Paul
has waged an active fight and Is re-
puted to be man OF great personal
popularity.
Jamcs Wins Notable Victory.
DeT'ocratic State Chairman Rorer
y. James wins n notable victory over
$. Floyd Landreth, OF Carroll. who
had made a vigorous campaign.
Colonel James. who Is from Pittsyl-
vania, and who is serving the unex-
pired term caused by the resignation
or Judge e. w. Saunders, now mem
Der OF the Supreme Court. scored
heavily in his homo county and in
Danville and Charlotte. while the
western end OF the Fifth District
failed to come UP with the expected
Republican majority.
Representative James p. Woods. Of
,Soanoke, is Overwhelming reelected
from the Sixth District. easily defeat
Ing w. N. Doak, who, although the
Republican nominee, was understood
TO be carrying also on his shoulders
the burden; OF Farmor-Labor prin-.
ciples, and was credited with at
tempting opposition to tho Each Cum
Minis act whlle the nominee OF n,
CONTINUED on Eighth Paee.1