Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-11-10
TR|NKLE CAPTURES
c. 0. P. GIBRALTAR
BY 1900 MAJORITY
Ninth District of Virginia,
Republican Stronghold,
Goes Democratic.
DEMOCRACY'S LEAD is
NEAR $4,000 IN STATE
Minority Party Is at Vanishing
Point in Lower House Of
Assembly,.
MANY UrsErs IN ELECTION
Seventh Congressional District Kcepx
All Republicans Mt How ''ooIscr
Wins In Fifth by 1000.
DENlOCRACY'S LEAD is
NEAR $4,000 IN STATE
MANY rrsErs IN ELECTION
! Seventh Congressional District Kcepx
All Republicans Mt TI""-- -'oOIScr
Wins In Fifth by 1000.
ny A.socIated press.l

HRISTOI., VA, Nov. 0.-UnoHicinI
and incomplete returns from prncti-
cnily NIL of the counties In the Ninth
NfrEinin District. indicate that Il. Lee
Trinkle. Democratic candidate for
Governor. has carried the district by
majority of nbnmt 1900. Returns
from several Republican ntronghoIds
t"dny Increased the lead TINT TrinkIc
had on the fnce OF early reports.
Hack mountain precincts, where
Repubiicnns expected to lind the votes
thnt would cut down TrInl<Ie's lend.
hhNe fniIcd tn show up with the uxuaI
Republican mnjOriticS. In three or
four counties, the large Republican
majority of last fall was reversed I'm
favor OF the Democrats
Democratic leaders here say The
hnHi hGurcs will show "a majority OF
I'"oo for Trlnkle. Democratic can
didntcs for state ana local Offices ulsu
pr"htcd by the reversal I'm many Re-
pnbiicnn counties of the Ninth Dis
trirf' and were elected ON the crest
OF the Democratic wave.
Reports reaching Richmond lasti
nisht from the Ninth District OF vir-
Einia, the Republican stronghold. in
dicate that the district has rou, for
Senator Il. Lee Trinkle and the cntir.
Democratic state ticket by q major
ity OF at least 1900.
Bristol city gave Trinklc aai ma
iority. the largest since the new Con.
stitution went into eu a. -
ana Gray. Democrats are elected to
inc house of Delegates by large
majority.
Trfnkie Makes Clean S,vccn
While figures were not avaii,h,..
information deemed reliable ind;c,t.
that Trinkle has carried Mt leos, ,eu
OF the counties in the Ninth Dis.
trict' Including Wise. Dickenson
Buchanan. Washington, Smythc. Taze-
wei. Wythe, Pulaski and Giles.
This is the first time that many OF
'nese counties have gone Democratic.
since @ 1873. when Judge William f.
80 ueie"'ed General J. -. 4.kcr
LOT congress. Judge Rhea s,,,ea
last night that Tazewell coun,,.
normally Republican by son 80,
given Anderson only $50 votes. 1,dra
hhea returned here last night frou
Bristol. where he went n ca.t S,.'
vote. MS
Minority More Than G0.OoO.
conservative estimates of Tripk,a.s
majority place the figure well ahoy.
o"''oo' with the likelihood that IL vii,
reach $4,000. u.
one OF The Immediate results of IN.
democratic landslide Is tho red,,c,,on
Almost to the vanishing point. OF the
i,epuoiican membership in the Hous.
Of Delegates.
For the first time since rcconstruc-
ton days. there Is not single Re-
publican member from the countias
composing the Seventh Conrressiopa,
District.
For the first time In thirty years
carroll and Grayson Counties elect
Democratic delegates. both counties
belng strongly Republican.
montgomery County elects Fl. G.
tyler, Democrat, to the House over
=. o. Flanagan, Republican incunb-
Hears Ont Floods Forecast.
me forecast given out by State
thairman Hal u. Flood, on the ev.
OF election. Is borne out bv the facts
ns indicated In the returns. This
forecast was printed In Tho Timcs
dispatch on last Sunday. The fig
ures given by districts total 5S.o0O
majority: This did not include the
Ninth District. Chairman Flood pre-
lerring to leave that district in a
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