The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-11-06
BY Universal Service

cal landslide found both Democratic
and Republican leaders tonight ex-
pressing continued amazement at the
extent of President-elect Warren G..
Harding's unprecedented victory.
Belated returns only added en-
phasis to the Nations overwhelming
reputation of the Democratic party.
The breaking of the solid South by
the capture of Tennessee's electoral
vote for the first time since 1868,
| strikingly accumulated the sweeping
character of the Republican triumphs
| and left Governor Cox with but IL
States-or at most 13-to his credit,
| all south Of the Mason and Dixon
line.
More important than the numerical
| extent of Senator Harding's victory,
was its magnetic effect in elections
| for the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives. Republican control of the
next Congress Is assured by a far Wild
err margin than the first returns indi-
Gated.
To put into effect the policies to
which they are pledged the Republic
cans will have in the upper House a
| majority of at least IL and possibly
Is members and in the lower House
a majority estimates of which range
from rs to more than 100. The g. o.
p. chiefs believe that these wide mar
gins in both Houses reduce the widely
expressed fears of insurgent activi-
ties in the next session to negligible
proportions. They expressed conf
dence that President-elect Harding
will have behind him sufficient ''regu-
lar" support at all times to be able to
disregard the fractions elements Of
the party, which, before election, had
been expected to be u%npleasantly pow
erful in the sixty-seventh Congress.
President-elect Harding goes into
office, according to the latest returns
tabulated tonight, with the entirely
unparalleled figure of 401 electoral
votes. and a popular majority esti-
mated at more than 100000. He
is the choice of SO States, in many of
them by ~pluralities never approached
in American history. Seventeen of
these States voted for Woodrow Will
son in 1916.
Until this election, a plurality of
100000 votes had been the highest
ever obtained in any one State. Sen
ator Harding surpassed this figure in
Pennsylvania, Illinois and New York.
obtaining in the last named the stag
gering majority of 100000 votes.
The West which had been the only
hope of Democratic leaders not blind
ed by optimism, wal as emphatic in
its rejection of Governor Cox as the
~concededly Republican East. Not a
spread Of the territory captured by
Wilson in 1916 remained in the DEM
ocratic column.
Minor parties played an insignif-
cant part in the general results, al
though the Socialists claim to have
polled the largest vote in their his
tory, estimating it as high as 3,000,-
900. On the face Of the present re-
turns it will be nearer 1000, 900. In
so few States was any record made of
the balloting for the Farmer-Labor
candidates that it is impossible to
give an estimate of its strength, but
outside Of New York State, it is be-
lieved to have fallen considerably be-
low even the modest expectations Of
Its leaders. In New York State 1t
claims to have polled more than 1907
900 votes and probably played a vital
part in the defeat of Governor AL
fred e. Smith for reelection. Some
what more than half of these votes
would have been sufficient to insure
triumph for Smith. who, even in de-
feat, has won what many political OBJ
servers declare TO be the greatest per-
sonal victory in the history Of Amer
lean politics, running nearly a million
votes ahead of his ticket.
Astounding as was the Republican
avalanche in the northern States,
equally significant were the returns
from the hitherto unbeatable South.
Not alone did Tennessee swing into
the G. o. p. ranks, but the Republi-
can vote In such rock-ribbed Demo-
cratic States as Louisiana and Ken
lucky reached astonishing proper
tons. Oklahoma, which yesterday
was considered safely for Cox. ap-
peared on to-night's returns to have
Joined the Harding train.
In the Senate the "old guard" will