Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-05
SENATOR GORE IS
PROBABLY BEATEN
FOR RENOM|NAT TON
/, M, Atkinson and Breck-
enbridge Long Seem VIM
ners in Missouri 'Wet"
Victory in Virginia

United States Senator Thomas P.
Gore was running far behind Scott
Ferris, Democratic candidate for the
senatorial nomi nation, on returns
from yesterdays statewide primary,
as tabulated here at noon today.
Latest available figures from 1,24e
precincts out of the 2,70S in the
state gave the following vote.
Ferris, 64,90S; Gore, 1851.
The senator's adherents predicted
Ferris lead would be cut sharply
during the day when the rural dis
tricts reported.
Mr.. Ferris issue mainly was
against Senator Cores war record.
wheat control and many other big
war issues.
Gore headquarters predict belated
returns will show that Gore carried
the state by ten thousand votes.
Returns from the Republican con-
test for the senatorial nomination
were drifting in slowly. Representa-
tive J. W. Harreld, of Oklahoma
City, on the face of early complica-
tons, appeared to be leading field
of fourteen candidates. Returns
from the congressional contests were
too meager to indicate a substantial
lead for any candidate.
SENATOR CURTIS AND
GOV. ALLEN RENOMINATED
TOPEKA, Kas., August 4.-United
states Senator Charles Curtis and
Governor Henry J. Allen, Republi-
cans, were leading their respective
opponents for denomination on the
face of returns from yesterdays
statewide primary election as tabu-
lated here early today.
Figures were coming in very slow
", however, and only a small por-
ton of the vote had been received
Two hundred of the states 2,4SS
voting precincts gave for senator:
Curtis, 6,939; Edwards, S,076; for
governor: Allen, 8,414; Snow, $3.50.
In the Democratic contest for gov
ernor, which was the only one on the
ticket Jonathan Davis. of Bronson,
was leading a four-cornered race,
With Dempster Potts, of Wichita,
. second, and o. T. Wood. of Liberal,
md W. S. Hyatt, of Parsons, next
n order.
Incomplete and unofficial returns
indicated that all OF the Republican
representatives in congress had been
renominated.
WET" CANDIDATE is
WINNER IN VIRGINIA
NORFOLK, Va, August 4.-By a
majority of more than 1000 votes.
J. T. Deal, of Norfolk, member OF
tn. Virginia state senate, yesterday
defeated w. J. KeKndrick, of Suf-
folk, for the Democratic nomination
for congress in the second district.
Deals victory is hailed by the wet
political element as signal demon
stration of their contention that the
pendulum has swung back since
1916, when the second district voted
for prohibition in the election which
made Virginia dry.
The liquor question was practical
ly the onl yone on which there was
Gny material difference in the plat
forms of the candidates.
MISSOURI PRIMARIES
SHOW "DRY" VICTORY
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 4.-Indications on
the face of returns received today
from yesterdays Missouri primary
are that John M. Atkinson, st. Louis,
and Arthur M. Hyde, Trenton, were
the gubernatorial nominees, re-
spectiveIy, of the Democratic and
Republican parties. Incomplete. unof-
fetal returns from 479 of 500 pre-
cincts in st. Louis, and approximate
ly 500 scattered precincts gave Hyde
41,5So, and his opponent, q. e. Nc
Jimsey, Springfield, 37,0S6. Incom'
plete, unofficial returns from 562 pre-
cincts gave Atkinson 25,S6d; Charles
Frank H. Farris, Rolla, 14,139.
The Globe Democrat, an indepen'
dent Republican paper, stated today
that on the face of these returns
Hyde's plurality would range from
/ son would approximate $4,000.
The senatorial race, on the face
Of incomplete, unofficial returns, hat
apparently narrowed down between
Il Dwight F. Davis, and Senator Solder
P. Spencer for the Republican nomi
nation. These returns from 479 pre-
cincts in st. Louis give Davis 20,
484; Spencer. 16,S48 and James L
Ltnnis, 1893.
For the Democratic senatorial nom
ination incomplete, unofficial returns
from 392 precincts in st. Louis. gave
4 Breckinridge Long 1903; Henry
RPriest, $3.50; Charles M. Hay, 1896
Political observers asserted nomi
nation of Atkinson and Hyde would
be a clear-cut victory for prohibit
ton, as both ran on dry platforms
Hyde also demanded that Nationa
Committeeman Jacob L. Babler anc
State Chairman W. l.. Cole resign
on account of their connection will
the distribution of the Lowden anC
Harding campaign funds, respective
DREWRY SEEMS WINNER
IN 4TH VIRGINIA DISTRICT
PETERSBURG, Va, Aug. 4.-Witi
returns in the Fourth congressional
district practically complete, Patricl
Henry Drewry, of Petersburg, appar
emily won his fight for congress owe
DR.. Henry Clay Smith, of Crewe, by
a majority of 1000. In Petersburg
brewery received 1,416 votes to 5!
for his opponent. The only clos
vote in the district was recorded a
sixty-Hine ami Smith twenty-one.
Whisky to Be Scarcest
Thing in the Worlc
NEW = YORK, Aug. 4.-Whisk,
ill be one of the hardest things ii
~ world to buy before anothe
...-11Fen elapses, according to John +
Kramer, United States commission
err of prohibition, who arrived her
today from Washington, personall
to discover if liquor can be bough
here as easily as reported. y
Mr.. Kramer said he based his pre-
diction chiefly on orders issued Z
the local office to refuse all permit
to wholesale dealers in liquor.
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