Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-08
THE ELECTION

"A THE TIME this is written,
half past ten election night,
the election returns are not con
elusive. Yet the general trend of
all the news is democratic. 1t is
conceded by the republicans that
New York has elected a democratic
governor, and all the indications
point to a democratic senator from
New York to succeed the republ-
lean senator from that state. Early
returns also indicate the gain of
democratic senator in New
ersey where Governor Edwards
leads Senator Frelinghuysen in the
votes SO far received. Senator
Reed is probably elected over his
republican opponent in Missouri.
The democratic candidate for SEN
ator, Mr.. CASTOR, leads Henry
Cabot Lodge in Massachusetts,.
However, these leads will prob
ably be overcome when all the
country districts in the Old Bay
state are heard from. No one real
Iy expected the defeat of Lodge.
The vote cast against him is sig
nificant. Mr. .Mondell, the repub-
lican leader, is apparently defeated
in Wyoming by Senator Kendrick
who leads him by a substantial fig
ure up to date in the returns.
1t is of course too soon to an
nounce positive facts, but it is ap-
parent fro mthe returns available
at this hour that a democratic
landslide is on. In our w state
the election of Wheeler and the de-
feat of Carl Riddick seems pretty
certain. At least Wheeler has a
heavy lead in the returns up to
date. In Ohio the results are
close. The democratic governor IS
leading in the returns up to date.
In Cascade county the returns
on the county ticket are too meag-
er up to date to express any opir-
ion, but in 81 precincts, about half
the precincts in the county, and
those constituting the heaviest
voting precincts, Wheeler has l.
146 majority over Riddick and
looks as though his majority in
this county would be about 1,5oo,
a figure much above the most OPP
ti-nistic calculations of his friends.
We think it is safe to say even
now when much of the vote IN
Montana is incomplete that Wheel
er is elected United States senator
and Carl Riddick defeated.
All over the United States the
general trend is strongly demo-
traffic. At this time no particulars
are available in many states but
so far as we have returns they in
dictate some gains in the senate
and large gains in the house. A
late dispatch from the democratic
state committee at Helena claims
the election of the entire state
ticket with the possible exception
Of the democratic candidate for
chief justice. No returns in the
local county ticket in Cascade
county are available at this writ
ing but the first page of this issue
will probably carry sonle news re-
garding the local ticket. On the
whole it may be said that this is a
democratic year and the voters all
over the nation have voted in pro-
test against the record of the re-
publican party in the last four
wears. as we felt confident they
would do. We reserve for another
day when we have fuller returns
our comment and analysis of the
vote in different states and IN our
own state. 1t is sufficient to say
ar this time that the drift of public
opinion all over the United States
is in condemnation of the republi-
can party record. as we thought It
would be.
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