The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-11-04
REPUBLICANS rule
Lower HOUSE OF
CONGRESS 257-132
G. 0. P. Leaders, After
Z Breaking "SoIid South by
Taking Two States, Cling to
Hope for Kentucky.

NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-Tennessee
has swung into the swelling Repub-
lean columns, shattering Democratic
traditions of a solid South unoffi-
ciaI but nearly complete returns from
the Volunteer state showed early to-
day
Her shift from the Democratic
ranks, coupled with a similar upset
in Oklafomasreported late last night,
assured Warren G. Harding OF 800
electoral votes as against 127 defi-
rliteiy in the James M. Cox column,
and left In doubt but 185seats In the
ELECTORAL college. divided among Ari-
IONA t3), Nevada (S), New Mexico
l31 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 managers were
Claiming Harding plurality though
available returns showed a Cox lead.
Tennessee, on the face Of returns
from SO OF 95 counties. with so pre-
lcincts missing, gave Harding 199,759
votes and Cox 189,782, Harding
swept out on the Republican tide
and ALI A. Taylor. unsuccessful can
didate for governor against his broth
er III 1856. was elected.
No further actual upsets were re-
ported from the solid South" al
though several towns in Florida and
Louisiana aud several counties in
Georgia and Alabama broke preced-
ents by piling UP Harding plurali-
lies.
The Republican congressional
sweep assumed larger proportions as
belatedi returns continued to come in.
xyf1 49, Cav n
Republican candidate for the senate
from Colorado. assured President
elect Harding a majority of at least
ten in the upper house and of five
states where senatorial choices had
not been determined. the Republican
candidates were In the lead in four
= Arizona, Oregon, Nevada and North
Dakota In the fifth. Kentucky, Re
publican leaders still clung TO the
fopg that late returns would over
come the advantage held by Senator
]. g. w, Beckharn over Richard r.
Ernst. his Republican opponent.
The Republicans had obtained 257
seats In the house of representatives
I to 81 for the Dofneerats
-Four seats went to miscellaneous.
including one Socialist and one Pro-
hibitiOnist.s Forty two districts were
HnrtpoTted. Onspfesent returns, the
Republicans had a plurality Of 131 !.
Thirty seven OF these contests were
in states which gave Harding plural
tiles or whose uneompleted vote
showed the Republican candidate in
the lead.
Late returns also Indicated possible
turn6yers in cases of some Demo-
critic representatives reported elect
ed. A notable instance was in New
York. where three Republican candi-
dates reported defeated-Ryan in the
Fifteenth district, Ansorge in the
Twenty-first and Rosedale in the
Twenty -third-had forged ahead of
Dooling. Donovan and McKinrie,
earlier reported elected.
The house will have one Socialist
member Meyer London, of New
York. who defeated Henry M. Gold
fogle, fusion candidate in the Twelfth.
The Prohibition party lost its lone
representative, but an independent
prohibitionist. Milton w. Shreve, was
elected from the Twenty
Pennsylvania district.
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
voters of a Republican representa-
tive. Harry Wurzbach.
Post-election developments within
the ranks of the beaten democratic
party included tart statement from
William Jennings Bryan in which he
divided blame for the defeat be-
tween President Wilson and candi-
date Cox. asserting that the former
had laid the foundation for the dis
aster'' and the latter had completed
the structure"
Wayne b. Wheeler. legislative coun-
sci for the anti Saloon League of
America, issued statement declar-
ing a cheeky of the congressional
election 40 states showed ''substan-
tial majority" In both houses against