Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-04
TENNESSEE GOES
IN G. 0. P. COLUMN
WITH OKLAHOMA
Nearly Complete Returns
Show Solid South Has
Been Broken.
FEW DOUBTFUL STATES
TRENDING TO HARDING
Montana Goes to Harding and
Isolated Spots of Far South Give
Republican Plurality.

Tennessee has swung into the SWELL
ing republican columns, shattering
democratic traditions of a solid
SOUTH" unofficial, but nearly complete.
returns from the Volunteer state
showed today.
Her shift from the democratic
ranks, coupled with similar upset
in Oklahoma. reported late last night,
assured Warren G. Harding of 3S6
electoral votes as against 1877 def
nitely in the James M. Cox column
and left in doubt but fourteen seats
in the electoral college. divided among
and North Dakota, 5. In all of these
states, save New Mexico, Harding was
in the lead on available returns, and
even in New Mexico republican man
ayers were claiming Harding plurality,
though available returns showed a Cox
lead.
0,077 Lead I'm Tennessee.
Tennessee, on the face of returns
tabulated by the Memphis Commercial
Appeal. from SO of 95 counties, with
so precincts missing, gave Harding
199,759 votes and Cox 1S9.7S2, a Hard
ing plurality of 9,977. Gov. Roberts
(democraO was swept out on the re-
publican tide and ALI A. Taylor, un-
successful candidate for governor
against his brother in 1886. was
elected. 81 IL
Montana has been won by Harding.
No further actual upsets were re-
ported from the solid SOUTH" all
though several towns in Florida and
Louisiana and several counties in
Georgia and Alabama broke prece-
dents by piling up Harding plurali-
ties.
The republican congressional sweep
assumed larger proportions as belated
victory Of samuel B. Nicholson, re-
publican candidate for the Senate
from Colorado, assured President
elect Harding a majority OF at least
ten in the upper house, and of hve
notibeen determined. the republican
candidates were in the lead in four
Arizona, Oregon, Nevada and North
Dakota. In the hfth. Kentucky, res
publican leaders STU clung. to the
hope that late returns would over
]. c. ". .Beckham over Richard r.
Ernst. his republican opponent.
11s Ma3srity In House.
The republicans had a clear ma
jority of 12S in the House Of Repre-
sentatives, with forty-three contests In
sixteen states undetermined. Thirty
seven of these contests were in states
which gave Harding pluralities or
whose uncompleted vote showed the
republican candidate in the lead.
Late returns also indicated possible
tlrnovers In cases of some democratic
Representatives reported elected. A
notable instance was in New YORK.
where three republican candidates re-
ported defeated-Ryan in the fifteenth
district, Ansorge in the twenty-first
and Rosedale in the twenty third
had forged ahead of Dooling, Dono-
van and McKinry, earlier reported
elected.
The House will have one socialist
member-Meyer London of New York.
who defeated Henry NJ. Goldfogle,
fusion candidate in the twelfth. The
prohibition party lost its lone repre-
sentative. but an independent prona- ON.
elected from the twenty-hfth Penn
sylvania district
Champ Clark Beaten.
Several notable upsets occurred In
the congressional race-among them
the retirement by. Missouri voters OF
former Speaker Champ CLARK OF the
House. and the election by Texas OF
a republican representative - Harry
Waurzbach.
Post-eIection developments within
the ranks of the beaten democratic
party included a tart statement from
william Jennings Bryan. In which he
divided blame for the defeat between
President Wilson and Candidate Cox.
asserting that the former had "laid
the foundation for the disaster" and
the latter had completed the struc-
ture"
WAYNE B. Wheeler. Legislative coun-
sci Of the Anti-Saloon League of
America, issued a statement declaring
a check of the congressional election
in forty states showed substantial
majority" in both houses against any
beer or wine amendment.