Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-09

Hcan. chairman of the house rules
Ycommittee, who was defeated in the
| primary. was neck and neck. In the
/ two Utah districts the republican can
didates were reported to be leading,
also in the first and second North
| Dakota districts, while the race in the
! fifth Washington districts was said to
/ be very close.
| With the Montana returns, which
| fixed the house result, came the def
tnite announcement of the victory of
| Burton X Wheeler, the democratic
| candidate for senator. over Carl Rid
dick, republican nominee.
| Republican casualties which broke
with the first returns Tuesday, de-
| feating Governor Miller and Senator
/ Calder of New York, continued with
! returns dribbled in. They told of fur
ther republican losses in the senate
and house and governors and state
legislatures. although the belated con-
gressional results were somewhat more
favorable to the republicans.
Kellogg Is Beaten
Among the additional republican
stalwarts who went down to defeat
definitely on additional returns were
Senators kellogg, of Minnesota, beaten
by DIR. Hendrix Shipstead, farmer
laborite, and Senator Townsend, of
Michigan, the latter losing to former
Governor Woodbridge n. Ferris, the
first democratic senator to be elected
from Michigan in 70 years. Also defi-
nitely defeated by Senator kendrick,
democrat. was Representative Mondeu.
of Wyoming, republican floor leader,
who aspired to the senate.
Delay in the house results. because
of the keen contest, has not been par
alleled since 1916. A number of miss
ing districts are in far western states.
In others received today. the early an
nouncements were changed. The dem
ocrats continued their gains, totalling
81 seats at latest figures, principally
from New York, Ohio, Missouri. New
Jersey and Oklahoma. As against this
failed to upset sitting democrat
Senator Lodge. of Massachusetts, 10
finally turned out. had plurality of
s.425 over his democratic opponent,
Colonel CASTOR, instead of the meager
1,945 reported early in the day.
Through q tranSposition of figures in
The Associated Press tabulation, Sen
ator Lodges plurality was shown as
being reduced to 1,945 and other news
distributing agencies in some manner
arrived at the same figures.
NOT threatened IN Senate
Loss of control of the senate by the
republicans was not threatened. al
though they suffered net loss OF six.
Eight republican senator's were defeat
ed, but this the party countered by
defeating two democratic senator's,
Hitchcock of Nebraska and Pomerene.
of Ohio. The republicans had carried
IL and the democrats ID of the 25
senatorial contests. OF the five still
In the balance. democrats were leading
in all-Mentana. Utah, New Mexico,
West Virginia and Washington.
In the latter, the race between SEN
atcr Poindexter, republican. and for
mer Representative Dill was so close
that it was thought an official count
would be needed to fix the outcome.
Another recount forecast was in
Texas, where republicans announced
they would contest the election of
Earle B. Mayfield, democrat, who had
KuA klux Klan endorsement, but this
would be based on claim of defect
i've nomination rather than a question
of the count of votes.