The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-11-17

q majority, and have not enough votes
to amend the Volstead act in either
house of congress.
In all except three of the strongly
contested states the Democrats elected
their candidates for United States
senator. such prominent leaders as
Senator Calder of New York Freling-
huysen Of New Jersey, Townsend of
Michigan, Kellogg of Minnesota, and
Poindexter of Washington falling be-
fore the Democratic landslide.
New Hampshire Democratic.
Ordinarily a rock-ribbed Republican
state, New Hampshire elected a Dem
ocratic governor. A number of state
| legislatures went Democratic and
| Democratic county and municipal Off
GERS were swept into power through
out the nation.
Republicans put over Senator Lodge
In Massachusetts by margin of 8.425.
In Ohio, where the Republicans con-
| centrated their fire in order to make
| showing in the Presidents home
state Representative Fess Republican,
won over Senator Atlen Pomerene, but
Carmi Thompson, Republican candi-
| date for governor and close personal
| friend of the President, went down to
| defeat. Senator La Toilette carried
! Wisconsin by the largest plurality he
ever had before.
This completes the list of the Presi-
| dents friends who seemingly have
been pursued by a political jinx since
| he took the oath of office. Senator
New of Indiana was the first to fall.
He went down in q primary. His sue
cessful opponent, former Senator
Beveridge, has now been defeated by
| former Governor Ralston by a major
ity of $1,000.
Presidents Friends Lose.
Senators Frelinghuysen of New Jer-
sey and Kellogg of Minnesota, golfing
companions of the President, sue
cumbed to the wave Senator Du Pont
of Delaware, in whom the President
places great confidence, also was a
victim, and Senator POindexter of
| Washington, high in the confidence of
| the President, is another loser.
Senator Hale of Maine. alone of all
! the President circle, was able to pull
through, he having been elected in
| September.
| There is a remote possibility that the
Democrats may control the next house,
| but no chance that they will lead in the
senate Late changes in the lineup
of the New York and Pennsylvania
| delegations in the house for the next
| congress could wipe out the slender
plurality of six votes which the Re-
publicans now seem to have. The
| Democrats are not claiming the next
house-neither are the Republicans.
Both declare the race for control is
! so close that 1t may not be determined
for several days.
West Also Democratic.
When returns showing Democratic
victories began to come in, it vas
thought for a while that the Demo-
cratic landslide had been confined to the
eastern states, but later reports from
states west of the Mississippi make
IT appear that the Democratic triumph
there has been almost as complete as
| in the East.
Republicans had counted strongly
| on carrying Utah, Wyoming, Montana
and New Mexico, but carried none OF
them, although Republican headquar-
ters still claim the election of their
| candidate In Utah on the strength or
telegram from Senator Reed Smoot
saving that Ernest Bamberger, Repub-
lican, had won.
About the only state where the Re
publicans lived up to expectations was
Nebraska, where r. B. Howell. can
didate of decidedly advanced ideas,
was an easy victor over Senator Gil
bert M. Hitchcock, who led the fight
70 nut the Versailles treaty through
the senate.
Smith w. Brookhart, Republican
candidate in Iowa, even more radical
than Howell, was easily elected despite
the eleventh hour attempts to ac-
complish the election of his Democrat
r. opponent, Clyde L. Herring.
Gains Are Surprising.
! There was no Disgusting the fact
that the administration was particular
Nv hard hit by the elections. While
democratic gains In the house had
been anticipated and discounted in ad-
vance. none of the politicians here was
prepared for the nearly clean sweep in
the contested districts. Neither had it
been anticipated that the Democrats
would gain in the senate. The Repub-
licans were confident Of increasing
their majority there.
The only registration of the COM
plete surprise of the election vouch-
safed by the politicians is that the
people had made up their minds long
ago as TO how they would vote and
the apathy with which they viewed the
campaign merely resulted from their
predetermination to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket no matter what the argu-
ments were.
About the only balm the Repub-
licans could get out of the election
was that they defeated rwo of the
strongest Democrats in the state and
nation In Pomerene of Ohio and
Hitchcock of Nebraska Both had been
regarded as possibilities for the Dem
ocratic nomination for president.
1 one man who has achieved renown
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