New-York tribune., 1922-11-09
Majority in House Is Cut
From loo to Ill, While
Senate Margin Drops
From "a to Possible Id
Vote Upsets All
Early Forecasts
Defeat of Pomerene i'm
Ohio and Beveridge's
Downfall Big Surprises
By Carter Field


The Republicans will control both
House and Senate, belated returns
indicated, though the majority in the
House has been pared down from
1866 to approximately eleven and in
the Senate from twenty-four to be-
tween ten and fourteen, depending
on belated returns from Utah and
Washington.
Not since the Woodrow Wilson
election of 1916, when rockribbed
Republican states west Of the Mis-
sissippi went Democratic after
Hughes's election had been conceded
in the East, have there been SO
riany surprises in one election. The
biggest of all was in New York.
,'Ao~~ 0'-,;tt '"~a-1'da not only
carried Tammany's favorite SON 10
victory by little short of half a mil
80. ~ o~sn pnG Demo
cratic candidate for Senator and
about nine Democratic candidates
for the House whose districts mad
been thought surely Republican.
Ohio Defeat Dazes Democrats
The second biggest surprise was In
Ohio, where the Democrats had been
absolutely confident os the election OF
Senator Pome-ene and of his nomina-
ton for President on the Democratic
ticket two years hence. DR.. Simeon D.
Fess rolled up majority of more than
$4,000 over Senator Pomerene, while
Carsni Thompson, Republican candidate
or fs~Srnor and close friend of Pregi-
dent as@Sding, seems to have been de-
seated Sy A. Victor Donahey by small
majority. On the same returns giving
DR.. Fess Ea,000 majority Thompson was
nearly $4,000 behind Donahey.
There seems little doubt that the
referendum on the 2A per cent beer
amendment saved DR.. Fess, not only
because Fess is dry and Pomerene is
wet, but because the fight to defeat the
wet amendment brought out the dry
vote back in the country, where prac-
tically all the voters are Republican.
Among the other important upsets
were the defeat of Senator Townsend
in Michigan, on late returns, after it
had been assumed from early reports
that he had been elected. Townsend
was beaten by ex-governor w. N.
Ferris, the first Democrat Michigan has
sent to the Senate since the Republican
party came into existence just before
the Civil War. Ferris was known to
be tremendously popular, and on one
previous occasion ran $4,000 votes
ahead of his ticket, while Townsend
has been hampered for the last few
years in keeping his fences intact by
his own illness and that in his family,
so that deductions about the issues in
the .ampaign might easily go astray.
Townsend was bitterly attacked both
in vigorous primary fight and in
the election for his vote to seat SEN
ator Newberry.
Lodge Barely Escapes Defeat
The very narrow escape from defeat
of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was
another surprising feature of the cleo
Of yesterday it was nip and tuck, and
late in the day Colonel CASTOR, Lodges
Democratic opponent, announced thai
he would demand a recount. Al that
time the figures showed Lodge less
than 1000 ahead. Discovery of an error
in the figures late in the day, however,
put Lodges majority at 8,425.
The Senator's friends had hoped for
majority of 100000, but so intense
was the opposition that it was clear
just before election his majority would
not reach 10000. No one really ex-
pected, however, that his lead would
be so small as to put the election for
moment in doubt. &
Both Opposed to League
The vote does not reveal anything
about sentiment on the league or on
prohibition, as both Lodge and CASTOR
were against the league and wet. The
vote against Lodge is believed to rep
resent votes of persons who, despite
the fact that there was no candidate
who represented their views, expressed
their personal antagonism to Lodge.
They voted for CASTOR not because
they agreed with him but because he
had not been so prominent in the night
against what they wanted as had Lodge.
Minnesota was known to be close,
but it had been thought that Senator
Kellogg would pull through despite
the tremendous radical drive against
him. DR.. Henrik Shipstead, who has
apparently defeated him, is the first
member of the Farmer-Labor party to
reach the Senate, as Senator La Fol-
lette, who has the support of the party
and who actually made speeches In
Minnesota for Shipstead, ciings to the
Republican label, IS does DR.. E. r.
Ladd, Senator from North Dakota, who
is actually a member OF the Nom
partisan League.
At late hour it appeared that the Re-
ruhlicans had lost Senate seats in New
York, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey,
Michigan, West Virginia, Washington,
peiaware and Minnesota, a total of nine,
and had gained Senate seats in Me-
braska, Ohio and Utah. This would
make q net loss Of six seats, which
would reduce. the present majority
from "a TO IL. Two of these contests,
however, are still in some doubt, those
in Utah and Washington, SO that the
actual majority may be 10 or Ia.
Beveridge's Defeat Emphatic
The defeat of Senator Beveridge, ap-
parent from the very early returns, in
creased in proportion as the slower re-
kturns came in during the day. At a