Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-07
sResults Win Testify as to How Wei
the Public Liked Work OF
Past Year.
CBy United Press,) Y

J Congress lue IGpuDllCduS, VIII SO4i
! troled it, claimed great achievements
while the Democrats charged it with
| inefficiency and futility, branding it &
/ The entire membership of the House
! of Representatives, 435, will be elected
today, and 35 members Of the Senate
Ordinarily, but 80 Senators are chos-
en-. This year Pennsylvania elects
two instead of one, because her pres
ent Senators are filling uneXpireo
terms of Senators Penrose and Grow
who died. Georgia was called on 10
choose a successor to the late Thomas
f. Watson, and Iowa will elect SEN
! ator to fill out the unexpired term OF
( ex-senator Kenyon, now on the fed
eral bench.
In addition, numerous states vote TO-
day for complete state tickets, and
many county and municipal elections
were being held. Thirty-hve Cover
nors will be elected.
The campaign which ended with the
opening Of the polls today was pre-
ceded in many states by particularly
sharp primary contests, in which the
electorate showed keen interest ana
in some cases surprising lndependcc
zee. This gives rise to the belle1
that the congressional campaign IL
self would be one of the most spec
tacular in many years.
The contrary was true, Tor whlie
both Republican and Democratic
parties organized intensively, there
was little popular enthusiasm over
candidates or interest in issues, eN-
cept in isolated cases.
For this reason some political pro
phets were exceedingly reticent about
predicting the outcome of today's con-
test. Republican leaders, as matter
of course, claimed they would retain
their present large majoritles In Doth
bouses. Democrats also, as everyone
nvnected of them, claimed they would
sharply reduce the Republican House
majority and capture several seats III
the Senate. III, 4ho
But the public, in whose hands me
result lay, was for the most part silent
and in MANY states too Indifferent TO
register and thus qualify to vote TO-
day. s for
more extensive and well organized
campaign than the Democrats. Both
narties claimed to be hatApered by
lack of money. With the NewOerrE
case fresh in the public mind, canal
dates and parties were careful not 10
snend money lavishly. 1t was also
claimed that former sources Oh reVeo
nue. dried up this year, because OIL
dissatisfaction. - Cobiro+
took the lead in urging the country u
continue the Republicans in control Oh
CONGRESS as a means of enabling the
irI'i istration to complete its pro-
Gram Mr.. Harding, in letter 10
REPRESENTATIVE Mondell, Wyoming
who is seeking the senatorship now
held by Senator Kendrick, virtually
anpealed to the country Tor election
of q Republican Congress. All mem
Sors Of the Cabinet actively joined IN
tho campaign most of them visiting
,,Mr,bcr of states on stumpng tours
The Republicans depended IN the
- mon an exposition of the admin
istration's record, citation Oh It's
achievements and of the Dement'S ac1
ming therefrom. They stressed
these items in the Harding program
as emitting them to continued conn
y" Ending of the war with Germany'
,,oao+iation of the four-power treaty.
he ,aval disarmament treaty and 5he
~, nacts evolved by the Washing
ton arms limitation conference; IN
NV hill abolishing the excess pront9
t"x. the emergency tariff bill, to III
40 farmers and live stock producers
- nr;cos for their products; the
, oo,o. mont tariff bill, which they claim
"a insured the country's industries
,,rotect;on from foreign competition
economies in government eXpeh1lISgre ss
through the operation OF the p"uH =
s,.stem. and numerous others.
The Democrats assailed every lte"
:. tI,;s list as more or less OF sham'
The said peace with Germany was
j 20 peace and disgraceful; tha'
" embellishments OF the arms colt
f sI, were small compared with me
tosI, remaining, and that what was
oo"a co was done only through
~ooo,tance of Wilsonian principles o,
;otorrationalism; that the tax Dill
,nerelv transferred the burden rom n
h;g bnsiness to little business and Z
t J,e taxpayers generally; that the II,
o ,mv and permanent tariff oiIls
80 C illusions and snars, resulting
Mainly in increasig living costs.
Republican orators also assaileu t iI
ponnblicans for seating Truman II
Nouborrv as a Senator from Mlcni'
ran claiming that the G. 0. +. IN CIV
l inc Newberry his seat admitted ina
TOO much money was spent IN MS Can
paign. - Loords h,
o;+bor marty nationally aroused more
nonnIar interest than any of the above
This was the wet and dry question
In three states, Ohio, Massachus,eVr
and Illinois the people today, voted Oh
the restoration of beer and light wlne'
In Missouri and New Jersey the sen
atorial contests were admitted to nam
on the wet and dry issue. In MARY
land all the senatorial randldate
ple6ged themselves to work for modi
ication of the Volstead law. In Ne'
York. Michigan. Washington, IcNa
/ % thn amos