The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-04-08
DEMOCRATS SHOW
NO PARTY GAIN
Much Advertised Popular Dissatis.
faction With C. o. p. Always
Fails to Materialize at
Given Time

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Hope deferred maketh the heart
SICK" Each special election which
has been held since March 4, 1921,
has been preceded by democratic
chorus of optimism, by outpourings
from democratic leaders that the
election in question would clearly
indicate the rising tide of resent
ment against the republican admin
istration' and face the country about
on its retreat to democratic rule.
But each special election has broken
the promise of hope to the demo-
cratic ears.
The first special election to be
held after the republican admins
tration took charge in March, 1921,
was that in New Mexico on Sep
TENDER 20, 1921. A seat in the
United States Senate was involved.
Holm o. Bursum, had been appoint
ed by the governor of New Mexico
to fill the seat left vacant by
Albert B. Fall upon his accepting
a place in the cabinet. This ap-
pointment was good until the next
general or special election and a
special election was called in order
to fill the seat permanently. The
democrats nominated their strongest
candidate against Mr.. Bursum and
sent a battery Of speakers into the
state to urge Mr.. Bursom's defeat
as a reputation of the republican
administration and republican con-
gress. Democratic women organ
izers were also sent into the state
to line up the women voter. Up
until the eve of the election demo-
Gratis claimed they confident of
victory. The returns, however,
showed Mr.. Bursum elected by an
unprecedented republican majority.
The next special election was held
September 27, 1921, in the 9th
Massachusetts, district, long repre-
scented in congress by the late Au-
gustus Gardner. Democratic public
ity mediums invited the whole
country to keep it's eye on the
special election in this district and
witness the tremendous increase in
the democratic vote that would
there be recorded. The people of
the district were represented to
be thoroughly disguised with the
republican administration. When
the returns were counted it was
found that A. Piatt Andrew, the
republican candidate, had beaten
his democratic opponent by over
three to one.
The next contest to which the
democrats invited popular attention
was that recently held in the third
Maine district. Here they were
confident of making a splendid
showing--so confident, in fact, that
the day before the election demo-
cratic leaders predicted the success
Of their candidate, and democratic
papers in New England heralded
the prospective results as a rebuke
to the republican party. The demo-
Gratis had only month before
carried several city elections in
Maine, where the normal MAORI
ties were republican. In addition,
there had been wage reductions
in several industrial plants in the
district. The Gompers crowd did
everything they could to assist the
situation in an effort to line up
the working men against the re-
publican candidate.
But here again, when the re-
turns we're all in, it was found
that the republicans had carried
the district by a larger majority
than ever before recorded in that
district, with the single exception
of the Harding landslide in 1920
a majority which clearly indicated
that not only was there no dis
satisfaction among the republicans
in the district, but that the people
were DESTROYS of a continuation
of the republican control of con-
gress.
The latest wallop given the demo-
cratic band Of hope is that by far
off Hawaii, where in a special
election to fill a vacancy in the
delegate to the United States con-
gress the republican candidate de-
feated the democratic candidate by
the unofficial returns show-over
two to one. The successful candi-
date who will represent Hawaii in
the United States congress is Harry
l.. Baldwin. His democratic OPP
ponent was Lincoln L. McCandless.
Unofficial returns show Baldwin
received 14,112 votes to only 6,258
received by McCandless.
This special election in Hawaii
was held the same week as the
election in the third Maine district.
It may be or may not be significant,
but at least it is interesting, to
record that the third district of
Maine is the farthest east territory
In the United States, while Hawaii
II the farthest west