The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-11-16
CONTROL GIVEN
70 DEMOCRATS
MARvLA AND AND KENTUCKY PASS
FROM REPUBLICAN hANN'
IN THURSDAYS ELECTION
Mayor HyIan Of New York Is Hee'ee'
ed BY Large Majority; E'eVe"
Die In Kentucky As Re-
suit Of Election Fight

New York-TwO states-Mar!iah
and Kentucky-have passed from he'
publican to Democratic control Us
result of Tuesdays elections" as
shown in returns available here wed
nesday morning.
In Maryland, the entire lower mouse
of the legislature and Is out OF -
members of the senate were electeu'
and it was believed in Baltimore earl!
Wednesday that the Democrats haa Sc
cured dominating position IN pot''
houses. In Kentucky the Democrats
regained control of the state leglsla'
ture, lost to the Republicans two years
ago, and claimed 50 out of lOO mem
bers of the lower house and IL out OF
SO seats in the senate. returns LOT
two senatorial districts were lhcom-
plete Wednesday morning. Mrs. Mary
Flanery of Catlettsburg had apparent
" won the honor of being the first
woman to be elected to the Kentucky
legislature.
New jersey Republicans claimed to
have elected fl assemblymen out OF
total of 60 seats contested and assert
ed the party lineup in the senate would
stand as it did last year-1o RepuD-
leans and six Democrats. The wet
and dry issue played prominent part
in that state, the Republicans standing
for strict enforcement of the state
prohibition act, while the Democrats
favored its modification or repeal.
Only one governorship hinged on
Tuesdays balloting, Virginia electing
State Senator E. Lee Trinkle, Demo-
crat, by large majority over Henry
w. Anderson, Republican.
The voters of Ohio apparently were
heavily in favor of the soldiers bonus
proposal, announcement being made by
Secretary of State Smith that in his
opinion it would be carried by 100000.
The bonus proposal would call for an
amendment to the state constitution,
which would authorize the issuance of
state bonds up to $25,O0O,O0O, out of
which ohio veterans of the great war
would be paid $40 for each month in
the service, the total payments to any
one man not exceeding $3.50.
Fatal election riots occurred in Ken
lucky, the centers of disturbance being
In Breathitt and Estill counties and
in the city of Louisville. Ten per.
sons are reported to have been killed
and nearly a score wounded.
Louisville, Ky.-Kentucky awoke
Tuesday from another costly election
to find eleven dead and fourteen
wounded. Two of the wounded We're
not expected to live.
The most fatal election fights were
in ''bloody Breathitt," where eight
were killed in fight at Clayhole, and
Sylvester Howard Jr. was shot to death
at Spring Fork. Two were probably
fatally wounded and two others seri-
ously hurt at Clayhole.
Other casualties were in Havenna
and Frozen Creek.
New YOrk-Democratic candidates
headed by Mayor John F. Hylan made
a clean sweep of the principal city and
county offices in Tuesdays municipal
election, the mayor receiving the un-
precedented plurality of 417,9S6. The
complete vote in the city's 2O79 cleo
ton districts was: Hylan, 754,S74;
Henry H. Curran Republican, running
on coalition ticket, 336,SSS; and ia.
cob Panken, Socialist, 5000.
Mayor Hylan's plurality is the larg.
est ever received by Democratic can.
didate for any office in this city and is
comparable only with President Har.
ding's plurality of 43S,471 in the presi.
Dental election last year.
approximately 95 per cent of the
city's 1,263,94O registered voters. which
included 447 ,O15 women, went TO tb,
polls. John r. Voorhis, vetrean com
missioner of elections, declared If was
one Of the quietest elections in bis