Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-06
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IN NEXT CONGRESS

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-(By the AS
ISOLATED Press.)-With returns In
from BAG of the 435 congressional
districts and 10 of the 81 senatorial
contests, uncertainty continued today
as to whether the sweep for Coolidge
and Dawes would carry with it
enough Republican gains in the two
houses to give the president a fun
working majority in congress. With
1873 Republicans and 1913 Democrats
elected to the house, the net turn
over had been only twelve in favor
of the Republicans, or five less than
would normally enable the majority
representatives to control over oppo-
sition by the La Toilette bloc.
Nine Democratic senators have
been reelected and ten Republicans
with only one upset, that in Ken
lucky, where Fred M. Sackett, Re-
publican, won over Senator A. Ows-
lev Stanley. The Republican nomi-
nees are leading their Democratic op-
ponents in several other states, in
Guiding Massachusetts, oklahoma
and Delaware.
One of the outstanding surprises
of the senatorial contests is the sit
uation in Iowa where Daniel e
Steck, Democrat, has a lead over
Senator Smith w. Brookhart, who
bolted the Republican organization
during the campaign and declared
for Senator La Toilette. Senator
Brookhart, however, did not concede
defeat.
Senator Magnus Johnson, one of
the two farmer-labor senator's, was
trailing Representative Schall, Re-
publican, in Minnesota, but still was
claiming that late returns would
bring victory to him.
After rolling up an early lead in
Wisconsin, Victor Berger, socialist,
was in neck and neck race at the
finish with Ernest A. Braun, his
Republican opponent.
Democrats Reelected
Democratic senators reelected in
Guided Heflin. Alabama; Robinson,
Arkansas. the minority leader in the
senate; Harris, Georgia; Ransdell,
louisiana; Harrison, Mississippi;
Simmons, North Carolina: Sheppard,
Texas, and Glass, Virginia, while
Cole Blease, a former Democratic
governor, was chosen to fill the seat
from South Carolina now held by
Senator Dial.
In addition to Fernald, who was
returned to the senate in the Maine
election in September, Capper, Kan
sas; Keyes, New Hampshire: Edge,
New Jersey, and McNary, Oregon, all
Republicans, were reelected. Charles
S. Deneen, a Republican, was the
senatorial winner in Illinois and Du-
pont, also q Republican, the victor in
Delaware.
In Massachusetts, Speaker Gillett
had a lead over Senator David I.
Walsh, Democrat; in Oklahoma, w.
B. Pine, Republican, was ahead of
j. C. Walton, Democratic senatorial
nominee. and avowed foe of the Ku
kluX Khan; in Rhode Island, j. H.
Metcalf, Republican, led Governor
Flynn, Democrat, for the seat made
vacant by the death of LeBaron
Colt
Incomplete returns also showed L.
d. Tyson, Democrat, leading in the
Tennessee senatorial race; Senator
Couzens, Republican, ahead in Mich
igan; Fred NJ Sackett, Republican,
leading Senator Stanley, Democrat,
in Kentucky, and Senators Phipps,
Republican, in the lead in Colorado.
Senator Warren, Republican,
Wyoming, was leading his opponents,
while G. D. Golf, Republican sena-
torial candidate for the senate in
West Virginia, had the edge on Will
liam Z. Chiffon, Democrat
In Montana, Senator Thomas ..
Walsh, Democrat. the Teapot Dome
investigator, had a lead over the
field. and in New Mexico, Senator
Bursum, Republican, was having
hard battle with Sam G. Bratton,
Democrat. In the eight-cornered
senate race in South Dakota, Gov
ernor McMaster, Republican, led
with L. S. G. Cherry, Democrat,
running second.
Democratic Losses
In the contests for house seats,
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