The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-09
DEMOCRATS
GET CONTROL
OF KENTUCKY
Party Increases Lead in Mary
land = Only Governorship
Contest, That in Virginia,
Also Goes Democratic.
HYLAN VOTE IS RECORD
CBy Associated Press)


Democratic control as a result of yes
terday's elections, as shown in returns /
available here today.
In Maryland where the entire lower |
house of the legislature and IS out Of |
p members of the senate were elect |
ed, Democrats increased their control /
in both houses.
In Kentucky the Democrats regain (
ed control of the state legislature lost !
TO the Republicans two years ago. and
claimed SO out of 100 members of the
lower house and 10 out of SO seats
in the senate. Returns from two sena-
torial districts were incomplete this
morning.
Mrs. Mary Flanery of Catlettsburg.
had apparently won the honor of being
the first woman to be elected to the
Kentucky Legislature.
Wet and Dry Issue.
New Jersey Republicans claimed to
have elected Al assemblymen out Of
a total of 90 seats contested and as
serted the party line up in the senate
would stand as it did last year-15 Re
publicans and six Democrats. The
wet and dry issue" played a promin-
ent role in that state the Republicans
standing for strict enforcement of the
state prohibition act while the Demo
Gratis favored it's modification or re-
peal
Only one governorship hinged on
Yesterdays balloting. Virginia elected
State Senator S. Lee Trinkle, Demo
crat by a large majority over Henry
W. Anderson.
The voters of Ohio apparently were
heavily in favor of the soldiers bonus
appeal announcement being made by
Secretary 70 State Smith that in his
opinion il would be carried by 100000.
Fatal election riots occurred in Ken
lucky. the centers of disturbance be-
ing in Breathitt and Estill counties
and in the city of Louisville. The
persons are reported TO have been
killed and nearly a score wounded.
Make Clean Sweep.
Democratic candidates in New York,
headed by Mayor John f.. Hylan, made
clean sweep of the principal city and
county officers in yesterdays mun1c!-
pal election, the mayor receiving the
unprecedented plurality of 417,9S6.
The complete vote in the city's 2,679
election precincts was: Hylan, 754,-
S74; Henry II. Curren, Republican,
running on a coalition ticket, 336,8SS,
and Jacob Panken, Socialist, S3,2O9.
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
Harding's plurality of 436,471 in tha
presidential election last year. The
highest previous Democratic plurality
was that of former governor, Alfred E.
Smith, who carried the city over Gov
in
election.
LOUISVILLE. KY, Nov. 9.-What
amounted almost to landsllde IN
MANY parts of Kentucky today had
carried the state legislature, for two
wears Republican, back into control OF
the Democratic party. The Demo
Gratis today had definite assurance
that they had 5S of the 100 seats IN
the lower house and had elected hair
of the 3S members of the state SEN
ate.
The Republicans had S3 seats GER
tain. with nine districts not heard
from. Two senatorial districts Stlli
we're doubtful, and with one OF these
the Democratic candidates would have
a majority of two in that branch of
the legislature, Il ilO" bClho NOhSSNeu
to the Republicans.
Virtually the only place where the
Republicans held their own was in
the city of Louisville. where Judge
Huston Quin, of the Kentucky court
of appeals, was elected mayor by a
majority of 5000 and swept the en-
tire city and county ticket. with the
exception of one house district and
one senatorial district, into office with
him.
Several counties, long known as Re
publican strongholds, gave Democrat
ic maiorities for the first time in
many years, notable among them be
ing Christian county, where normal
Republican majority of 1,S00 changed
into a $50 majority for the Demo
Gratis.
BALTIMORE. Nov. g William S.
Gordy. Jr., Democrat, elected comp
trolfer over State Senator Oliver S.
Metzerott. his Republican opponent, at
yesterdays election by a decisive plur-
ality. He carried Baltimore by 15,167
votes. The Democrats claim the rest
of the state for him by about four
thousand The Democrats also carried
both branches of the general assem-
bly,.
RICHMOND. Va. Nov "a plural
ity of al least $4,000 was estimated by
the Times Dispatch today as the mar
gin of victory for State Senator E
Lee Trinkle. Democratic candidate foI
Governor of Virginia in yesterday S
election. 4 total vote of 145.000 for
Trinkle and 5000 for Henry W. And
erson, his Republican opponent was
estimated
DETROIT. Nov again endorsing
the city administrations municipal
ownership program Detroit voters re
elected Mayor James Couzens at yes
terday's election by nearly two to one
BY about the same ratio, a charter
) amendment under which the Detroit
United Railway would be forced to va
cate Fort street and a part of Wood
ward avenue, two principal thorough