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eridge in Indiana and Lynn ]. Fra
Zier in North Dakota.
mWet" Sentiment Held Cause.

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tration officials and directing heads OF
the Republican national committee.
But the wet victory was not sufficient
to upset dry control of congress. Wet
leaders concede that despite wet gains
the drys will have an ample majority
in both houses next congress on any
prohibition issue.
While government officials and Fem
bers of the Republican national COM
mittee will not be quoted, representa-
tive men among them point to the wet
vote as the most decisive showing. In
the words of one of the highest officials
and ablest politicians in the Repub-
lican party: "The returns show vote
not for anything, but against some
thing. and that something was the Vol
stead act"
Representative of the vets IN
Washington are jubilant. They claim
1875 wet votes in the next house, and
express conviction that wise politi-
clans who have taken middle ground
will swing to the wet column. Mr.
Wheeler, spokesman for the drys, is
willing to admit all of the claims of
the vets, but they still are far from
a 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 # Minnesota, and
Poindexter of Washington falling be-
fore the Democratic landslide.
Ordinarily a rock-ribbed Republican
state, New Hampshire elected 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
| a showing in the Presidents home
state Representative Fess, Republican,
won over Senator Atlee 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
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dents friends who seemingly have
been pursued by q political jinx since
| he took the oath of office. Senator
New of Indiana was the first to fall
He went down in g 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 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 it may not be determined
for several days.
West Also Democratic.
When returns showing Democratic
victories began to come in, it was
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
tiers still claim the election of their
candidate in Utah on the strength of
telegram from Senator Reed Smoot
SAYING 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, a can
didate of decidedly advanced ideas,
was an easy victor over Senator GIL
bert NJ Hitchcock, who led the fight
to put 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
ic &pponent, Clyde L. Herring.