The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-11-11
REPUBLICANS
CONTROL
CONGRESS
Election Cuts Their
Majority to. a Mar
row Margin in the
House and Senate

AOSkAS WIN fON<4ASSSS
New York, Nov. 9.-Continued
Republican control of congress, but
with the senate majority cut in
half and the house majority slash
ed to scant handful appeared
today, the net result of the general
election. Belated returns from Mon
tarla this, morning sent the Repub-
licans over the top in the house
contest. Many contests are so tight
that numerous recounts are certain
to be asked.
Washington, Nov. 8. tBy the As
sociated Press ).-The country to-
day watched with intense interest
the nip and tuck race for control
OF the house Of representatives, the
closest since the war days Of 1916.
II saw most OF the Republican
leaders stand up against the on
slaugtt; it saw scores Of men
brought in by the Republican wave
two Years. ago go out with the
Democratic undertow.
Volstead. author Of the proh1bi-
ton enforcement law, was the only
Republican committee chairman
to go down, but fell before an in
dependent minister candidate, self
proclaimed dryer than Volstead
himself. This fact often was over
looked By those who professed to
see in the defeat Of Volstead q pun
ishment for the dry law.
While they had been expected
to take a big hand in the election
the women of the country were
unable to eject one of their number
in the helterskeIter race for SEN
ate. There will be no woman IN
the next congress. Alice Robertson
Of Oklahoma will go out then along
with Winnifred Mason Huck of H.
linois, elected yesterday to fill the
term Of her father, the late VIII.
liam E. Mason, expiring next
March.
Mondell, for the last four years
the Republican leader i'll the house,
aspiring for seat in the senate
from Wyoming, went down in a vain
race for the senate and new
leader. win arise in his place.
Speaker Gillette and Mann and
Madden-all the big committee
chairmen in fact, save Volstead,
held their seats. Most of them
never were in danger.
Every Republican leader of the
house has often declared during the
last two years that the majority
around ITO at the start-was too
big. but none expected to see it cut
so low, and none seemed TO fear
that it would be cut below 40.
But starting in the East, the DEM
ocratic wave began picking UP seats,
gathered % in New York and then
traced down the Atlantic coast, cut
ting across into Virginia then turn
ed to the Southwest, and doubling
back into Pennsylvania, swept over
into the Middle West country and
towards the Far West in the hope
of finding enough upturns to keep
ahead of the Republican column
coming along behind.
It was nearly noon today before
the Republicans, racing for hours
behind early Democratic voters, got
abreast Of the enemy. Then for
some hours the two parties see
sawed and the Republicans pulled
to the front. Only the vast ma
.jority 81 two years ago saved them.
The drift away from the admins
tration was greater than they
would have believed possible ten
days ago.
Hours went by without bringing
advantage to Republicans Or DEM
Gratis. Among the last Of old
timers to go was Macarthur of Ore
gon, enmeshed in local situation
in, which the Ku Klux Klan was
Isaid to have played a big hand
against him. Stafford of Wiscon-
sin, right hand man to Mann Of
Illinois, the free lance of the
house, was bowled over by Victor
Berger. the twice unseated Social
iss, who came back to take his old
seat. He will be the lone repre-
sentative Of the Socialists, as Mey-
Ier London of New York was over
come by a Democrat.
l.. Some of the big committees
counted heavy losses among their
members, as one after another Re-
publican sitting members fell out
Of the fight.
Predictions were freely made a
week ago by Republican and Dem
ocratic leaders alike that no wo-
man would sit in the Sixty-eighth
congress. Republicans admitted
privately that Miss Robertson
would be beaten. and there was
no Democrat ready to predict the
election Of woman on his side.
The prediction was accurate so far
as the next congress is concerned.
Only in Iowa We're the Repuh-
licans able to send back solid
delegation. In other states dele
cations were shot to pieces, both
Indiana and Ohio. solid hereto
fore, breaking up. New Jersey
and Maryland each gave a. $3.50