Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-11-04
The COUNTRY IS
SAFELY REPUBLICAN
IOWA DOES HER FULL SHARE
BY GIVING BIG MAJORITIEs
FOR ALL OFFICERS,


= STATE CHAIRMAN TELE- .
IL GRAPHS CHAIRMAN :
/" HAWKS. .
/" Please accept congratula- :
lions on your work in this cam .
paign. It was the team work .
which made possible the splen-
did and glorious victory. Lat .
est Misunderstanding has car .
ried Iowa by 100000: Cum =
Minis, 225,0OO: Kendall, 2OO,- .
I" 900. Chas. A. Rawson.
. .
Iowa apparently gave Senator
Harding a plurality Of approximate
ly 100000 votes over Cox at the
election Tuesday, returned United
States Senator Cummins' to his seat
in the senate by a vote of two to
one over Porter, his democratic op-
ponent, reelected all its republican
representatives in congress, and
elected the republican state ticket
from top TO bottom. Kendall, re-
publican candidate for governor
carries the state by great plurality
over his democratic opponent, Her
ring.
Senator Cummins' vote amazed
republicans as we'll as democrats.
Never before had such a bitter fight
been made on the senator in this
state. Furthermore. Porter, his op-
ponent, was regarded as a very
strong man. Basing their opposi-
ton to Cummins largely on the part
he played in drafting the Esch-Cum-
Minis railroad law, tho democrats
early began determined fight
against him and so vigorous were
their onslaughts on Cummins the
republicans were concerned until
the first returns began to come in.
But every precinct practically added
to Cummins' total until his plurality
in the state ran second only to that
Of Senator Harding's.
Kendall's vote also was a surprise
to his friends and opponents as we'll.
II was feared by many that he would
find it difficult to carry the state.
Early returns, however, showed he
would win by a two to one vote over
Herring.
Harding had been expected to
carry the state, but not by the tre-
mendous plurality which he rolled
up.
The record-breaking republican
triumph in the presidential election
Tuesday assumed even more impress
sive proportions tday in the light
of nearly complete returns.
From the viewpoint of either the
electoral or the popular vote the
democratic defeat appears cataclys-
milo.
Harding and Coolidge have won
at least 379 and possibly 389 votes
in the electoral college, more than
ever before were given a candidate
for the presidency, with the excep-
ton Of Wilson. when the republican
party split in 1912.
On this basis the electoral COL
lege majority of the republican tick
ct will be not less than 227, which
Is a greater margin than any victor
has achieved since Grant was re-
elected.
New Mexico. with its three cleo
xo0 ele3s kIuo eql 8! 'seloA IsIol
carried outside the traditionally
democratic south, in which the re-
publicans left number Of serious
dents.
Oklahoma may be found in the re-
publican column when the returns
are completed, for with the receipt
of additional figures today 1t was
perceived that Harding was leading
Cox at a rate which, II continued,
would give the state to the republic
cans by plurality Of 5000. Okla
homa never has gone republican in
a presidential election in the history
OF the state and was carried by Will
son four years ago by $4,000. The
accession OF Oklahoma would make
the Harding electoral total of $50,
a majority Of 247.
Republican majorities in both
branches of the next congress grew
greater today as the count of the
votes In Tuesdays election contin-
ued.
Latest returns show that the re-
publicans gained at least seven
seats in the U. s. senate, giving
them a majority Of 16. Two states
Oregon and Oklahoma, at a late
hour, were in doubt. with indica-
lions that both might send republi-
cans to the senate to succeed Sem
ator Chamberlain and Senator Gore.
In that case the republicans will
have majority Of 20 in the senate.
The republican house majority as
the tabulation OF the vote progress
ed, became overwhelming. With a
large number Of seats still in doubt
today. many Of them likely to be
turned from the democratic to the
republican list. the republican house
majority was 1923.
Senate: Republicans. S.: demo-
Gratis, 40.
House: Republicans, 2S1: demo-
Gratis. 1852; independent-prohi
1: independent, I.
Republicans made their increased
senate gains in Arizona and Nevada.
late returns showing that Ralph
Cameron. republican, had defeated
Senator Mark Smith. democrat, in
Arizona. and that Senator Charles
B. Henderson. democrat, of Nevada.
had been beaten decisively by for
mer Gov. Tasker l.. Oddie.
Defeat of Champ Clark, former
speaker of the house Of representa-
tives 1 nthe Ninth district OF ms
souri,, T. w. Hukreide. republican.
had a majority over Clark of nearly
5000 votes.
Election of a republican congress-
man from Texas. Hardy M. Wurz-
bach having decisively beaten Carlos
Bee. democratic candidate in the
Fourteenth district. Bee is a broth
er-in-law of Postmaster General